Bios 2150 microbiology - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

• What is the role of oxygen in bacterial metabolism? • What about carbon? • Explain how a low pH affects bacterial metabolism. Shuts down metabolism because it ruins the enzymes that the bacteria need to survive. • Bacteria have varying oxygen requirements. Which category describes those that would grow deep in the soil? o Obligate aerobic- requires oxygen for energy production as an electron acceptor o Facultative anaerobic- can thrive in oxygen but can also use another electron...

The Adaptive (Specific) Immune System (Chapter 18) • Adaptive immunity: defenses that target a specific pathogen o Learned- the body has to adapt to this o Some pathogens change their shape so that adaptive immunity misses them • Acquired through infection or vaccination o Immune response is always stronger through infection • Primary response: first time the immune system combats a particular foreign substance • Secondary response: later interactions with the same foreign substan...

. Compare and demonstrate the use of the techniques used to measure microbial growth and population size. Bacterial Growth Generation Time (Chapter 9 page 362) • Time required for a cell to divide o 20 minutes to 24 hours • We looked at two ways that this could happen o Binary Fission o Mitosis Bacterial Growth Curve 1. Lag phase: no increase in number of living bacterial cells 2. Log phase: exponential increase in number of living bacterial cells 3. Stationary Phase: plat...

Leading and lagging strands are always referring to the new DNA on the inside If this is a nucleotide that wants to join a new strand of DNA, which part joins the new strand? 5’ end (phosphate) Which part of the nucleotide is going to dock into the parent strand? 3’ nitrogen base Protein Synthesis – terminology • Recall that proteins are made of amino acids • Triplet - a series of 3 DNA nucleotides that code for 1 amino acid o If you stack a bunch of triplets together you cre...

. Temperature (Section 9.4) • Psychrophiles: prefer cooler temperatures (below 15 degrees C). Do not live in humans. (Psychorotrophs grow at higher temps and can cause spoilage of refrigerated foods). • Mesophiles: prefer 25-40 degrees C. Live in humans as pathogens and non-pathogens. • Thermophiles: prefer 50-60 degrees C. Found in compost piles and hot springs. o Often domain archaea o Often not pathogens to humans Temperature Considerations: • Minimum growth temperatur...