2 Flashcards

1
Q

A special form of active that occurs exclusively in prokaryotes, the substances is chemically altered during transport across the membrane.

A

Group Translocation

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2
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A strategy widely utilized by microorganisms to adapt to changes in their individual environmental niches and survive in time and/or space until they encounter conditions acceptable for vegetative growth.

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Sporolation

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3
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Only moves substances from a higher to a lower concentration, does not required metabolic energy (ATP)

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Passive Transport

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4
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A common shaped bacterium is called

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Vibrio

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5
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Resting structures formed by some bacteria which allow survival during adverse condition.

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Endospores

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6
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Spiral cells that move by means _______ are called spirochetes

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Axial Filament

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7
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He classifies living oganisms into two major groups: prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

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Edouard Chatton

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8
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He discovered tne domain archae as the third domain in biological taxonomy in 1990.

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Carl Woese

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9
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Completed the third statement of the cell theory.

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Rudolf Virchow

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10
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Basic Structural, functional, and biological unit of all life forms.

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Cell

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11
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Attachment to surfaces

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Fimbriae

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12
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Genus that naturally lacks cell walls

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Mycoplasma

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13
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Motility

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Flagella

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14
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Protection from osmotic lysis

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Cell wall

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15
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Protection from phagocytes

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Glycocaly

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16
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Resting bacterial cells

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Endospore

17
Q

Protein synthesis

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Ribosomes

18
Q

Selectively permeable

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Plasma membrane

19
Q

Transfer of genetic material

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Pili

20
Q

Genus of bacteria with a thick, protective, and waxy cell wall.

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Mycobacterium

21
Q

Wall less gram negative cell

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Spheroplast

22
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Thick peptidoglycan layer

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Gram positive

23
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No net movement of water and cell

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Isotonic

24
Q

Diffusion of water across a selectivity permeable membrane

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Osmosis

25
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Thin peptigoglycan layer

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Gram negative

26
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Wall less gram positive cell

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Protoplast

27
Q

Rupture of a cell placed in solution

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Hypotonic

28
Q

When a cell is placed in this type of solution it shrinks

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Hypertonic

29
Q

Metachromatic granules(volution)

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Inorganic PO4 Reserve

30
Q

Gas vacuoles

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Buoyancy