Microbiology delgado - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1 Meter = - 100 centimeters 1,000 millimeters 1,000,000 micrometers (aka microns) 1,000,000,000 nanometers 2 chains of glycans = NAM & NAG - Make up peptidoglycans 4 Groups - Protists Fungus Plants Animals Acid-Fast Stain - Used to identify members of the genus Mycobacterium Acidophiles - Prefer a lower pH Likes acidic environments Adhesion - Proteins are responsible for joining together cells Aerotaxis - Movement towards or away from oxygen Agar - Polysaccharide that comes from th...

Exam 1 MicroBiology Delgado Study Guide with Complete Solutions Robert Hooke - Answer️️ -He was an Englishman who first discovered cells He looked at slices of cork and saw what he described as cellulae, which is Latin for little room Here is what he saw → the cells were the remains of once living plant cells Anton Van Leeuwenhoek - Answer️️ -He was a Dutch fabric merchant, he was the first to describe living cells Using this simple/basic microscope he was able to describe so...

delgado microbiology 211 final exam practice questions and answers Lister - Answer️️ -English surgeon who sterilized his equipment Modern cell theory - Answer️️ -All known living things are made up of one or more cells Cells are the basic units of all living things Cell arise from preexisting cells by cell division Cells contain hereditary info that is passed on during cell division Prion - Answer️️ -protein infectious particle transmission electron microscope (TEM) - Answer...

(they are ways of distributing pathogens) - What do septicemia, viremia, and toxemia have in common and I think the answer is none of the above 100 pathogens is enough to cause disease in 50% of the host population ID50 - measurement that is determined by the # of microbes required to give 50% of a population the disease - Pathogen X has an ID50 of 100, what does that mean Acquisition of resistance - Spontaneous mutation - occurs when a mutation causes a bacteria to become resistant to a p...