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Cytomegioviruses Inhabit salivary glands, intestinal tract, liver, lungs, and other organs
Papillomaviruses Causes warts on the skin
Specificity Refers to types of cells a virus may successfully infect
Host Range Refers to the spectrum of hosts that a virus may infect
Smallest Virus Enteroviruses
Largest Virus Orthopoxviruses
Virion a complete virus particle a nucleic acid covered by a capsid it may or may not have an envelope
Envelope Virus A lipid bilayer membrane outside the capsid of a virus
Naked Virus a viral capsid and genome form a nucleocapsid
Capsid The protein coation of a virus, which protects the nucleic acid core from the environment and , usually determines the shape of the virus
Viruses A submicroscopic, parasitic, acellular, microorganism composed of a nucleic acid coe inside a protein coat
Bergey's Manual Best reference for the classification of bacteria authored by David Bergey in 1923 First edition set published between 1984 and 1989
prions are responsible for Brain infections: Human: Creutzfel - Jakob Disease, Deer: Chronic wasting disease, Cattle: Mad Cow Disease, Sheep : Gerstmann - Strassler - Disease
Prions Small particle consisting of protein without nucleic acid
Viroids Infections RNA particle smaller than a virus with no capsid - plant diseases
Virology The study of viruses
Viruses Acellular infectious agents smaller than cells
W. Ford Doolittle Said we can not use conventional "Tree of Life", we should use the "Shrub of Life", due to the exceptional number of roots and branches
Domain Archaea Includes organisms which look like bacteria but possess different genes for dealing with DNA
Domain Bacteria Includes all single - celled organisms with no nucleus
Five Kingdom System -Kingdom Monera, -Kingdom Protista, -Kingdom Fungi, -Kingdom Plantae, -Kingdom Animalia
Species (2) Definitions 1. male and female of the same species are capable of DNA trasfer through mating and producing fertile offspring. 2. a species is a group of organisms that share a common gene pool.
Developing an organized usable system has many problems. Two major problems are; 1. What constitutues a species. 2. what constitutes a kingdom or a domain
Dichotomous Key Uses paired statements providing an either - or choice. Only one statemnet can be true each statement sends on to another pair untill organism is identified
Keys used to identify unknown organisms
hierarchy of classification levels. Don't Keep Putting Chips On Floor Gtana Says DKPCOFGS Kingdom, Phyulum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
HUS - hermorrhagie uremic syndrome most common cause of kiney failure in children in the united states
Strain a subgroup of a species with one or more characteristics that distinguish it from other subgroups or the same species
specific epithet Second name of the species , NEVER capitalized
Gemus Fist name of the species alway capitalized
Nomenuature means? act or process of naming
Binomial means? two
Linnheus also originated identifying organisms using what? Bionomial Nomenciature
Carolus Linnaeus founded the science of taxonomy in the 18th century
What is the basic principle of taxonomy? Members of high level taxonomic groups share fewer characteristics than do members of lower level taxonomic groups
Taxon provides an orderly basis for naming of organismsas well as placing them in a category
taxonomy science of classification
classification systematic arrangement into groups or categories according to established criteria
International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (I.C.T.V.) formed in 1966 no latinized name family
Arenaviridae Arenaviruses -lassa fever0
Rhabdoviridae Rhabdoviruses -Rabies
Paramyxoviridae Paramyxoviridae -mumps, -measles, -viripneumonia, -brochitis
Filoviridae Filoviruses -ebola and marbury hemorrhagic fevers
Orthomyxoviridae orthomyviruses -influenza A and B
Bunyviridae Bunyviruses -Hanta Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
Reoviridae Reoviruses -Sever diarrhea in infants and children - rotaviruses
Retroviridae Retroviruses -Tumors, -Leukenia, -Human T-Cell Leukemia virus 1, -Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus 2, -Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1, -Human Immuodeficiency Virus 2
Coronaviridae Coronaviruses -severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Flaviviridae Flaviviruses -yellow fever, -Dengue Fever, -Hepatitis C, -West Nile Virus
Togaviridae Togaviruses -German measles (Rubella) -equine encephalitlis
Chaliciviridae chalaicviruses -Gastroenteritis
Picornaviridae, -Enteroviruses, -Hepatoviruses, -Rhinoviruses Picornaviruses -Polio, -Hepatitis A, -Common Cold
Absorption The attachment of a virus to a host's cells
Hantavirus causes HPS carried in rat urine and feces
Dengue Fever -closing in on it. America from the south
Yellow Fever -most dangerous it's vector is a mosquito
Arboviruses viruses carried by arthropods
Human Parvovirus - B19 -causes "fifthe" disease (Erhthema Infectionsum)
Parvoviridae Parvoviruses -cause disease in rats, mice swine, cats, dogs
Hepadnaviriadae Hepadnaviruses -Hep B - may lead to liver cancer
Simian Virus 40 the deveopment of cancer cells
Papovaviridae Papoviruses -polymaviruses (2 human types) -vaculating viruses -papillomaviruses - benign and (cause cervical malignant warts cancer)
Poxviridae Poxviruses -orthopoxviruses are the human viruses -small pox -cow pox -mulluscum contagiosum
Herpesviridae Herpesviruses -Herpes Simplex 1 - oral, -herpes simplex 2 - genital, -chicken pox - varicella, -shingles - herpes zoster
Adenoviridae Adenoviruses -Respiratory infections, -sever diarrhea in babies and children
How many known herpes viruses are there? 11
Acute means rapidly
Latency means long term/after
Chronic develop slowly
T.O. Deiner 1971 Viroids
Ernst Mayr species share common gene pool
Whitaker 1969 proposed new taxonomic system he seperated out kingdom monera x3
Ford Doolittle Shrub of life and latral gene transfer
David Bergey Author of Bergery's manual
Carl Woese New taxonomic group- Domain
Carolus Linnaeus ID organisms using bomonial nomenclature; Developed classification system
Selman Waxman coined the term antibiotics in 1940
Paul Earlich Chemotherapy
Gerhard Demagk Dis. Protonsil, 2 red dye used to treat gram+ bacteria
Ernest Fornedu Sulfa Drug
Alexander Fleming Penicillin in 1928
Chain and Fleming Produced and distribute penicillin it was only availible to the military during the WWII
Lister introduced phenol (antiseptic)
Fungi Nonphotosynthetic eukaryotic that absorb nutrients from the environment
Nutrition Autotrophic, heterotrophic, fermentative with different products; energy sources, carbon sources, nitrogen sources, needs for special nutrients
staining Results; Gram+, Gram-, acid fast, capsule ect.
bacteriophages viruses that attack bacteria
virulent bacteriophages phages which attack and destroy bacteria
temperate bacteriophages do not initiate a lytic cycle
teratogenesis the induction of defects during embryonic development
teratogen an agent that causes defects during embryonic development
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