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Micro final

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Antony van leeuwenhoek   Made the first microscope.  
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Spontaneous Generation   Organisms can arise from none-living matter.  
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Francesco Redi   Helped disprove spontaneous generation and meat in the jar experiment.  
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Louis Pasteur   Father of modern microbiology, the swan-necked flask experiment.  
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John Tyndall   Contributed to the discovery of endospores.  
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Prokaryotes   Singled celled organism that does not contain a membrane bound nucleus, no true nucleus.  
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Eukaryotes   Complex cell with a membrane bound nucleus. Fungi,protozoa.  
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Bacteria   Prokaryote, no organelles and replicate by binary fission, motile.  
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Archaea   Prokaryote, found in extreme enviroments.  
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Eukarya   Eukaryote, have organelles,single or multicellular.  
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Fungi   Very diverse, eukarya, single cell is yeast multicellular is mold.  
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Protozoa   Single celled, usually motile, complex. No cell wall, water.  
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Viruses   At their simplest, nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.Non living.  
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Prions   Infectious protein.Non-living. Misfolded proteins.  
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Covalent Bond   Very strong and difficult to break. Formed when two atoms share electrons.  
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Ionic Bond   Occurs when one atom gives electrons to another atom.  
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Hydrogen Bond   The weakest, formed from + H towards - atoms. readily dissociates.  
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Proteins   Made up of amino acids, can be structural and act as enzymes.  
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Amino Acids   Held together by covalent bonds called peptide bonds.  
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Carbohydrates   Common energy Source, form bacterial walls and nucleic acids.  
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Light Microscopes   Light passes through the specimen, then through magnifying lenses.  
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Condenser   Focuses the light.  
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Iris diaphragm   Controls the amount of light.  
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Magnification   Ocular and objective lenses magnify the image.  
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Resolution   The ability to resolve 2 objects that are close together.  
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Refraction   Light passes from glass to air it bends.  
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Contrast   The number of visible shades in a specimen  
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Phase-Contrast Microscope   Amplifies differences in the refraction index to create contrast.  
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Interference Microscope   2 light beams pass through the specimen then recombine.  
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Dark-Field Microscope   Light is directed toward the specimen at an angle. field is dark.  
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Fluorescence Microscope   UV light causes fluorescent molecules to emit light.  
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Electron transmission microscope   Shoots a beam of electrons at the specimen allowing to see inside.  
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Electron scanning microscope   Is used to see surface details.  
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Simple Staining   Using a single stain, everything will be the same color.  
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Differential Staining   Multiple stains, able to see the differences between objects.  
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Gram Stain step 1   Primary stain, purple.  
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Gram stain step 2   Iodine, hold the primary dye to cells, purple.  
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Gram stain step 3   Alcohol. Gram + are purple, Gram - become colorless.  
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Gram stain step 4   Adds color, Gram + are purple, Gram - are appear red.  
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Acid fast stain   Uses heat, used on Mycobacterium b/c waxy lipid coats hinders traditional staining.  
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Rod shaped   Bacillis  
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Spherical shaped   coccus  
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Cytoplasmic membrane   Composed of lipids with protein, semi permeable membrane defines boundary of cell.  
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Osmosis   Water flow across membrane, towards higher concentration.  
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Active transport   A transport protein moves against concentration gradient, energy used.  
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Flegella   Long protein appendage acts like an outboard motor.  
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Pilli   Protein appendage small used for attachment.  
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Chromosomes   Contains genetic information of the cell.  
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Plasmids   Small, Extra-chromosomal DNA, aid in survival.  
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Ribosomes   Proteins that carry out translation  
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Endospores   Very resistant form of life.  
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Hyphae   Filaments of lots of cells. Septate or nonseptate.  
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Fungi Characteristics   Are nonphotosynthic, exist as yeasts or molds. Cell walls have chitin cell membrane have sterols.  
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Dimorphic fungi   Many pathogenic fungi are, can be yeast or mold depending on temp.  
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Zygomycetes   Nonseptate, Asexual=Sporangiospores Sexual=Zgospores  
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Ascomycetes   Septate, Asexula=condidia and budding Sexual=Acospores  
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Conidia   Asexual spores borne on hyphae  
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Deuteromycetes   Septate, Asexual=Budding Sexual=Absent or unknown  
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Basidiomycetes   Septate, Asexual=Conidia Sexual=Basidiospores  
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Superficial infection   On hair.  
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Cutaneous infection   Infection of the skin.  
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Subcutaneous infection   Deeper than skin infection.  
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Systemic infection   Desease, lungs/blood  
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Opportunistic infection   People with a deficiency are more likely.  
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Susceptible to fungal infections   Anything that decreases immune function will increase risk of infection.  
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Protozoa Trophozoite   Vegetative or feeding form.  
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Protozoa Cyst   Resting form.  
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Sarcodinia   Amebas, move by pseudopodia.  
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Mastigophora   Flagellates, move by flagella.  
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Ciliophora   Ciliates, move by cilia coating cell.  
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Apicomplexa   Sporozoa, are inteacellular parasites.  
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Mechanical Vectors   Insect pick up a pathogen and contaminates food that is eaten by a human.  
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Biological Vectors   The vector is a host for the organism before transfer to humans via a bite, ingested.  
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Helminthes   Multicellular and complex organisms.  
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Definitive host   Harbors adult worms, is the host which sexual reproduction takes place; eggs.  
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Intermediate host   Harbors larval forms; asexual reproduction may take place.  
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Nematodes   Have long, round, narrow bodies. egg or lavae can be infectious unit, round worms.  
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Cestodes   Tapeworms, Cysticercosis=ingestion of eggs, no intermediate.  
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Trematodes   Flukes, Leaf-shaped, Larvae burrow into snails. intermediate host.  
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Latent Cycles   Viral nucleic acid intergrates into the host cell genome and lays dormant. Host cell=lysogenized. virus=prophage.  
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Eclipse period   Time from virus existance to first assembly of virrion.  
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Latent period   Time virron is detected outside the cell.  
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Chronic infection   signs and symptoms may go away but the virus can still be detected.  
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Viruses and cancer   Some viruses can transform cells making them cancerous.  
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Normal cells   Contact inhibition, anchorage dependence, limited lifespan.  
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Cancer cells   No contact, no anchorage dependence, grow like bacteria, immortal.  
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Exoenzymes   Large molecule must be broken down outside of the cell and then imported into the cell for metabolism.  
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Simple diffusion   Flows down a concentration gradient, water.  
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Facilitated Diffusion   Flows down a concentration, but it is by a transport protein such as permease.  
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Active Transport   Flows against a concentration gradient, mediated by a transport protein, requires energy.  
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Group translocation   Mediated by a transport protein, very important to bacteria.  
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Catabolism   Reactions that break down molecules into smaller building blocks.  
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Anabolism   Reactions that use energy to make larger molecules out of smaller ones.  
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Exergonic reactions   Release energy.  
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Endergonic reastions   Use energy.  
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Features of enzymes   Protein catalyst, very specific, lowers the activation energy.  
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Substrate level phosphorylation   Makes ATP, uses chemical energy, an organic compound is the final electron acceptor.  
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Oxidative phosphorylation   Makes ATP, uses energy from proton motive force. electron transport chain, respiration.  
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Photophosphorylation   Makes ATP, uses energy from light, uncommon in bacteria.  
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Oxidation-Reduction reaction   LEO the lion says GER.  
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Respiration   Uses the electron transport chain, uses reducing power to generate ATP.  
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Aerobic Respiration   Makes the most ATP, oxygen is the final electron acceptor, makes oxygen radicals.  
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Anaerobic Respiration   Makes a little less ATP, An inorganic molecule other than oxygen is the final electron acceptor, Sulfur  
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ATP Synthase   Permits protons to flow back into the cell, harvesting the energy to synthesize ATP.  
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Fermentation   The worst at making ATP.  
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Generation Time   The time it takes for the population to double.  
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All macromolecules can be Broken down for energy.   True.  
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Bacteria divide by binary fission   True.  
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Pure Culture   A population of cells derived from a single cell, making them identical.  
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Culture media   Can be broth, liquid, or solid, agar, form.  
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Broth   Liquid, used for large cultures.  
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Agar   Solid, used to isolate colonies.  
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Streak-plate method   Simplest and most commonly used bacterial isolation technique.  
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Lag phase   first phase, cells are preparing for growth but not dividing yet  
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Log phase   second phase, exponential growth, active division.  
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Stationary phase   Third phase,Cells have nearly used up all nutrients, cell death=cell division.  
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Death phase   last phase, no more division. cells are dying exponentially.  
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Environmental factors   Influence growth, Temp oxygen PH water.  
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Obligate aerobe   Requires oxygen  
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Obligate anaerobe   Cannot, under any circumstances grow in the presence of oxygen.  
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Facultative anaerobe   Can grow without oxygen, but grows better with it.  
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Microaerophile   Needs a little oxygen.  
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Aerotolerant anaerobes   Always grows anaerobically, regardless of the presence of oxygen.  
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Capnophiles   Need increased carbon dioxide.  
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Catalase and superoxide dismutase   Detoxify oxygen at the end of arobic respiration.  
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Neutrophiles   Prefer a PH range around 7  
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Acidophiles   Like acidic ph, below 5.5 best.  
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Alkylophiles   Like basic ph, above 8.5 best.  
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Water   Halophines grow in high salt concentration.  
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Nutritional factors   Influence growth.  
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Required elements   CHNOPS  
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Heterotroph   Use organic carbon as a nutrient source.  
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Autotroph   Inorganic carbon, use carbon dioxide.  
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Phototrophs   Derive energy from sunlight.  
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Chemolitho   Inorganic compounds.  
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Chemoorgano   organic compounds.  
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Chemically defined media   You know exactly what is in it, specified to individual species.  
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Complex media   You do not know exactly what is in it. Very nutrient rich.  
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Selective media   Allows one type of bacteria to grow while inhibiting the growth of another. selects growth.  
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Differential media   Does not inhibit growth, gives a visual cue to see the difference between species.  
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DNA   The master blue print of the cell.  
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Genome   Complete set of genetic information of the cell.  
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Individual deoxyribonucleotides   5 Carbon sugar, Nitrogenous base A,T,G, or c, 3 OH, 5 PO4,  
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Adenine and Guanine   Purine  
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Thymine and Cytosine   Pyrimidine  
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DNA replication   Makes an exact copy of the genome.  
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Leading Strand   Replicated continuously, moves toward the replication fork.  
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Lagging Strand   Replicated discontinuously, moves away from the replication fork.  
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Transcription   In nucleus, carried out by RNA polymerase.  
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Promoter   Tells the sigma factor of RNA polymerase where to start.  
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Terminator   Tells the sigma factor of RNA polymerase where to stop.  
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Translation   In cytoplasm, carried out by ribosomes, rRNA, tRNA.  
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Ribosomes   Proteins, 2 subunits 30'S 50'S  
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rRNA   A type of RNA that complexes with the ribosome proteins.  
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tRNA   Acts as a bridge between mRNA and growing protein chain. carries amino acid for each codon.  
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Codons   Groups of 3 nucleotides.  
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AUG   The Start codon for Every protein.  
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Constitutive enzyme class   Always synthesized.  
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Inducible enzyme class   Not regularly produced, usually off but can be turned on in certain conditions.  
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Repressible enzyme class   Usually on but can be turned off.  
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Repressor   Blocks transcription, binds to a sequence of DNA called a operator-downstream of the promoter.  
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Activators   Turn on transcription, activator binding site-upstream of the promotor.  
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Inducers   Can bind to either repressors or activators, inhibiting or promoting their ability to bind to DNA.  
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Operons   Sets of genes that include an operator, promotor, and structual genes. Metabolism  
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Proofreading   A function of DNA polymerase. it will fix its own mistakes.  
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Mismatch repair   A different set of enzymes recognizes the mistake, cuts out the mistake and repairs.  
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Transformation   The transfer of naked DNA-donor dies  
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Transduction   The transfer of DNA by a virus, donor dies  
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Conjuction   The transfer of DNA using a pilus, donor survives.  
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Antiseptic   A disinfectant that is nontoxic enough to be used on skin.  
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Bactericidal   Kill bacteria  
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Bacteriostatic   Prevents the growth of, but does not kill.  
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Disinfectant   A chemical used to destroy many microorganisms and viruses.  
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Pasteurization   A brief heat treatment used to reduce the number of spoilage organisms.  
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Sterilant   A chemical used to destroy all microorganisms and viruses in a product rendering it sterile.  
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Sterile   Completely free of all microorganisms and viruses, an absolute term.  
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Sterilization   The process of destroying all microorganisms and viruses through physical or chemical means.  
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Physical Agents   Heat, cold, radiation, filtration, high pressure.  
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Moist heat   Includes pressurized steam, boiling and pasteurization.  
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Pressurized steam   Sterilant.  
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Pasteurization   Disinfectant.  
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Boiling   Disinfectant.  
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Dry heat   Less efficient way to sterilize. Charring everything.  
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Cold   More for preservation, freezing kills tapeworm cysts.  
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Ionizing radiation   X rays and gamma rays, lots of power, sterilant.  
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Non-ionizing radiation   Ultraviolet, less power, not able to penetrate.  
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Filtration   Good for sterilizing solutions that need to retain biological activity.  
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High Pressure   Up to 130,000 psi.  
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Chemical Agents   Used to treat inanimate objects.  
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Alkylating Agents   Bactericidal, used for sterilization.  
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Oxidizing Agents   Irreversible, bactericidal, common disinfectants.  
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Heavy Metals   Reversible, bacteriostatic, silver nitrate used on newborns.  
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Biguanides   Bacteriostatic, used extensively as an antiseptic.  
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Phenols   First antiseptic, penetrates and disrupts membranes. Disinfectants.  
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Cationic detergents   Quats, skin antiseptic and general disinfectants,  
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Anionic detergents   Soaps, Hydrophobic end enters the membrane and disrupts it causing lysis.  
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Antibiotics   Derived from naturally from molds or bacteria.  
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Alexander Fleming   Discovered penicillin.  
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Inhibit   Bacteriostatic.  
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Kill   Bactericidal.  
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Narrow spectrum   Work on a narrow range of organisms, gram + or gram - only.  
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Broad Spectrum   Work on a broad range of organisms,Gram + and Gram -  
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Ideal Antibiotic   Broad spectrum, prevent resistance, no bad effects, not destroy normal flora.  
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Adverse effects of antibiotics   Allergic reactions, toxic effects, suppression of normal flora.  
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Bacitracin   Cell wall inhibitor, Bactericidal.  
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Vancomysin   Stops cross-linking,Bactericidal.  
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Antimycobacterial drugs   Thick lipid-rich waxy outer layer, isoniazid and ethambutol.  
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Aminoglycosides   Targets 30s subunit, translation inhibitor, Bactericidal.  
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Tetracyclines   Targets 30s subunit, translation inhibitor, bacteriostatic.  
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Mls Antibiotics   Targets 50s subunit, translation inhibitor, bacteriostatic. macrolides lincosamides, streptogramins.  
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Chloramphenicol   Target 50s subunit, translation inhibitor, bacteriostatic  
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Oxazolidinones   Target 50s subunit, translation inhibitor, Bacteriostatic  
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Rifamycin   Target RNA polymerase, Transcription inhibitor, Bactericidal.  
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Quinolones   DNA antibiotic, target enzyme DNA gyrase, bactericidal.  
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Antimetabolites   Sulfonamides and trimethoprim, both inhibit folic acid synthesis, Bacteriostatic.  
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Membrane Antibiotics   Cyclic polypeptide polymixin, detergent.  
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Origin of Antibiotic resistance   Natural mutation(vertical) is minor. Transfer is horizontal is major.  
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Polyenenes   Binds to ergosterol.  
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Azoles   Prevents the production of ergosterol.  
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Allyamines   Prevent the production of ergosterol by inhibiting squalene epoxidase.  
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Echinocandins   Bind to B-glucans to destabilize the wall.  
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Flucytosine   Replaces vracil in RNA creating mispairing and mutations.  
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Griseofulvin   Interacts with microtublules inhibiting mitosis.  
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Antiparasitic drugs   Interfere of protozoan parasites or neuromuscular function of worms.  
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Antibiotics   Have no effect on viral infections.  
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Nucleoside analogues   Viral nucleic acid synthesis inhibitor.  
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Antigenic shift   Radical change, genomic reassortment.  
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Antigenic Drift   point mutation, small changes overtime.  
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