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1-1: History of Microbiology
What was blamed for infectious di...,
What did they think caused the bl...,
Who developed the micrscope
13  cards
1-2: A Diverse World of Microbes
What are the three distinct domai...,
What relates bacteria and arachaea,
What are viruses how do they diff...
21  cards
1-3: Naming and Classifying Microbes
What is taxonomy,
What is phylogeny,
How do taxonomists make classific...
13  cards
2-1: Prokaryotic Cells and Their Morphologies
Difference between prokaryotes an...,
How large are most bacterial cells,
How does cell size affect the cell
19  cards
2-2: Bacterial cytoplasmic membrane
Structures of cell envelope,
Roles of cell envelope,
Role of the cytoplasmic membrane
6  cards
2-3: Bacterial Cell Walls
What is the primary function of t...,
Size of cell wall in gram negativ...,
What is the cell wall comprised of
19  cards
2-4: Bacterial Outer Membranes & More
What gram status has an outer mem...,
What important molecule makes up ...,
What is the composition of the om
24  cards
2-5: Transport in Bacterial Cells
What molecules move freely across...,
Forms of passive and active trans...,
What is osmosis
14  cards
2-6: Movement of Bacterial Cells
What is motility,
What is the flagellum,
How does the flagellum work
28  cards
2-7: Bacterial Cell Inclusions and Endospores
What is an inclusion,
What is a microcompartment,
What is the carbon storage polymer
21  cards
2-8: Unique Aspects of Archaea Cell Biology
What parts of archaea are similar...,
Difference between lipid linkages...,
The lipis in bacteria euk are cal...
14  cards
2-9: Eukaryotic Microbial Cells
Eukaryotic cells contain,
What is the nucleus,
How do proteins related to dna ge...
21  cards
3-1: Microbial Genome
First step in cell division,
What part of mrna is converted in...,
Nucleotides are comprised of
26  cards
3-2: Prokaryotic Genetics
How are genes named,
Example of gene name,
How are proteins named
56  cards
Horizontal Gene Transfer
Ways foreign dna enters the cell,
Once inside the cell dna can,
How is dna integrated into the ch...
21  cards
3-3: Genomics
Who invented shotgun sequencing w...,
How did fredrick sanger go about ...,
What is annotation
7  cards
4-1: Transcription
Enzyme involved in transcription,
Why must dna be converted to rna,
Two strands in transcription whic...
27  cards
4-2: Translation
What are proteins,
Structure of aa,
What are joined by peptide bonds
48  cards
4-3: Transcriptional Regulation
What is regulation,
How is transcription initiation r...,
What protein largely regulates in...
36  cards
4-4: Post-Transcriptional Regulation
Regulation involving prematurely ...,
How do you regulate at the rna level,
Rna regulation done by
21  cards
5-1: Energetics and Redox Reactions
What is microbial metabolism esse...,
What are the four metabolic requi...,
First law of thermodynamics
43  cards
5-2: Enzymes
Enzymes act as,
Rna enzymes are called,
Enzymes participate in the reacti...
14  cards
5-3: Catabolism
How is metabolism modular,
What are the three ways to genera...,
What is the preferred energy sour...
72  cards
5-4: Chemolithotrophs & Phototrophs
What is a chemolithotroph,
Where are chemolithotrophs found,
Common electron donors energy sou...
25  cards
5-5: Biosynthesis
Is n2 metabolically useful for mo...,
What is nitrogenase,
Bacteria and archaea that can con...
25  cards
6-1: Cell Division
How do most microbial cells divide,
How does binary fission work,
What happens after dna replicates...
24  cards
6-2: Culturing microbes
Most of a microbial cell weight m...,
What are the key elements require...,
Where do h and o come from
37  cards
6-3: Environmental effects on microbial growth
What environmental factors need t...,
All organisms have ________ _____...,
What do higher temperatures do
32  cards
6-4: Control of Microbial Growth (and death)
What is decontamination disinfection,
What is sterilization,
What is decimal reduction time
32  cards
7-1: Microbial Communities
What is the fundamental niche,
Range of environments where a mic...,
What is co evolution
19  cards
7-2: Microbial Warfare
How are antibiotics used in micro...,
Where do streptomyces live when a...,
What is the type vi secretion sys...
17  cards
8-1: The Human Microbiome
How many bacterial genes for ever...,
Collection of microbes living in ...,
Microbiota and the environment th...
35  cards
8-2: Microbial Pathogenesis
We don t know about any pathogenic,
Vast majority of the microbes we ...,
What is an infection
35  cards
Terminology
Amount of time it takes to reduce...,
Amount of time it takes to kill a...,
Used to sterilized objects in hea...
51  cards

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