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pathogens
Term | Definition |
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microbiology | the study of living organisms, being unicellular multicellular or acellular |
Fermentation | conversion of sugars to alcohol, gasses, and organic acids |
microbiome | microbes associated with normal human tissue |
commensal | relationship between host and microbe that cause no harm |
virus | not made up of cells, consist of protein and genetic material, DNA/RNA, host to survive, infects all type of cells |
prokaryotes | unicellular, doesn't have a membrane bound nucleus, single circular chromosomes. |
Archaea | prokaryotes, found in nearly every environment on earth, none shown to be human pathogens, cell wall composed of s-layers |
Bacteria | Prokaryotes, harmless, helpful, pathogenic. Peptidoglycan cell walls give rise to cell shape. |
Eukaryotic | House DNA in a membrane bound nucleus. can be unicellular/ multicellular. |
Fungi | Unicellular/multicellular, cell walls made of chitin, sugars, and glycoproteins, non-motile, can be human pathogens |
Algae | unicellular/multicellular, cell wall composed of cellulose, photosynthetic, flagellar movement, used in foods, cosmetics and microbiology. |
Protozoa | Unicellular, no cell wall, flagellar or pseudopod movement, common pathogen. |
parasitic worms | parasite- a worm that lives on or in a host and gets food from or at the expense of the host. |
Each cm of skin contains | 3 billion bacteria |
large intestine has | 400-1000 types of bacteria |
Prokaryotes cells | bacteria archaea |
Eukaryotic cells | bacteria fungi algae protozoa |
Taxonomy | classification, description, ID, and naming living organisms |
Binomial nomenclature | use to name organisms, two word naming system. |