Ch 1, 10, 12, &13 – Flashcards

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Opportunistic pathogens
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(fungi)- does not ordinarily cause disease but can become pathogenic under certain conditions
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How do microoraganisms contribute to our lives?
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  • Recycle vital elements in nature
  • sewage treatment 
  • bioremediation
  • biotechnology
  • genetic engineering
  • normal microbita
  • biofilms
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Bioremediation
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uses microbes to clean up pollutants (eg. bacteria are used to detoxify oil and mercury)
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biotechnology
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uses microbes to make chemicals and foods (eg. cheese, bread, beer, wine)
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What do normal microbiota do for us?
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  • Help us produce vitamins and folic acid
  • protect us against disease; prevent overgrowth of pathogens
  • some can cause disease under certain circumstances (taking antibiotics ---yeast infection)
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what do bacteria, protezoa, and archaea have in common?
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all unicellular
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taxonomy
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the science of classifying organisms
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Taxonomic hierarchy: classification order?
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Domain --kingdom --phylum --class --order --family --genus --species
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eukaryotic species
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a group of closely related individuals with similar characteristics that breed among themselves (do not breed or exchange genes with other species)
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prokaryotic species
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a population of cells with similar characteristics. (can exchange genes with other species)
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viral species
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a population of viruses that have similar characteristics and that occupy the same ecological niche (host)
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trophozoite
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a vegetative structure that feed and grow (protozoa)
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schizogony
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(protozoa) multiple fission
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conjugation
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haploid micronuclei to fuse in sexual reproduction of a protozoa
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gamete production
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haploid ex cells (gametes) combine (sexual reproduction of a protozoa)
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What phylum are paramecium and stentor classified?
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Phylum Ciliophora

-motile; move using cilia

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What phylum are amoeba classified?
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phylum amoebozoa

- move using pseudopods

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What phylum is Plasmodium vivax in?
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Phylum Apicomplexa
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What phylum is cryptosporidium in?
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Apicomplexa
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What phylum is Toxoplasma gondii in?
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Apicomplexa
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Describe phylum apicomplexa.
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  • Non-motile; have special apical organelle to penetrate their host
  • obligate intracellular parasites
  • have complex life cycles involving different hosts
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What phylum is Tripanosoma brucei gambiense in?

 

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phylum Euglenazoa

- move using flagella; do not sexually reproduce

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What specimen is a photoautotroph, contains chloroplast and is sometimes classified as alga?
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Euglena
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What is in the cell wall of algae, peptidoglycan, cellulose, or chitin?
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cellulose
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What are diatoms and desmids classified as?
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algae
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How do algae reproduce asexually?
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by cell division or fragmentation (organism breaking into fragments)
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Molds are _____cellular and yeasts are ____cellular.
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multi, uni
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Mycelia
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formed by a cottony mass of hyphae (molds)
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Do molds and yeasts require oxygen?
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molds yes, yeasts can live with or without oxygen
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Sporangiospores

(asexual or sexual, give an example)

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asexual, phycomyces, Rhizopus (most common, bread mold)
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conidiospores

(define, give an example, sexual or asexual)

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asexual; penicillium, aspergillus; -fully exposed chains of spores formed at the tip of a reproductive hypha
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zygospore
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sexual spore of a mold

eg. phycomyces, rhizopus

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Name the asexual ways of reproduction for a yeast.
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fission, budding, pseudohypha (false mold)
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ascospores

 

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sexual spore formed when 2 nuclei fuse; spores are enclosed in an ascus (sac)
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Which spores are located in the phylum zygomycota?
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Zygospores and sporangiospores

eg. rhizopus

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Which spores are located in the phylum ascomycota?
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ascospores, blastospores, and conidiospores
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candida albicans
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yeast infection, opportunistic, cutaneous mycosis
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dimorphic fungus
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has 2 forms, can grow yeast like or mold like depending on environmental conditions
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Which spores are in the phylum Basidiomycota?

 

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Basidiospores - sexual spores fromed on top of pedestals
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T/F Viruses contain DNA and RNA.
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False: either DNA or RNA
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CAPSOMERES
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subunits that make up a capsid that surround the genetic material of a virus; make the protein coat
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What is a virus called that contains no lipid envelope to enclose the capsid?
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naked virus
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Can any virus infect any host? Why or Why not?
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No. most viruses infect specific host cells depending on their attachment sites and cellular factors.
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What shape is a helical virus?
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rod shaped
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List the steps of the multiplication of a bacteriophage in the lytic cycle.
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  1. Attachment 
  2. Penetration
  3. biosynthesis
  4. maturation
  5. release
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List the steps of the lysogenic cycle of a bacteriophage.
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  1. attachment
  2. penetration
  3. prophage (phage DNA integrates and recombines with bacterial DNA)
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What are the outcomes of lysogeny?
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  • Immunity: the bacterial host becomes immune to reinfection by the same phage
  • Phage Conbersion: the bacterial host may acquire new genes and traits from the phage
  • Specialized transduction: virus can transfer genes from one bacterial cell to another
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List the steps of the multiplication of animal viruses.
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  1. Attachment
  2. penetration: endocytosis (engulf a naked virus), fusion (entire capsid and nucleic acids enter cell)
  3. uncoating
  4. biosynthesis
  5. maturation
  6. release: Rupture (release a naked virus), budding (release enveloped virus)
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Latent Infection
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remains asymptomatic for a long time (virus)
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Persistent infection
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disease progress occurs slowly over a long peorid of time
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oncogenic viruses
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cause cancer; uncontrolled cell division forms tumors
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Provirus
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viral DNA integrates ito host cells DNA
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Define the methods of identifying viruses. Cytopathic effects, Serological tests, nucleic acid tests
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  • Cytopathic effects - compare healthy v.s. infected cells
  • Serological tests - use antibodies specific to virus
  • nucleic acid tests - polymerase chain reaction (PCR); DNA finger printing
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viroid
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infectious RNA
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Prion
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infectious protein particle
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viron
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complete virus
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