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Compare Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes on 5 points

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E
Paired chromosomes, membrane bounded
Histones
Have membrane bounded Organelles
Polysaccharide cell walls
Mitotic spindle

P
One circular chromosome, not membrane bounded
No histones
No membrane bounded organelles
Peptidoglycan cell walls (bacteria)
Divide by binary fission

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Types of eukaryotic microbes

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Fungi, algae, protozoa, helminths (multicllular animals/ worms NOT actually microbes)

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Two forms of fungi

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Unicellular - yeasts (Bakers, OR cause inflammation of V)
Multicellular - molds (Penicillium)

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saprophytic

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normally live on decaying organisms

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How is fungi beneficial?

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Decompose dead plants
Symbiosis with palnts
Some are food
Produce medicines

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What structure do fungi have?

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Vegetative

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Septate hyphae

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A type of fungal structure divided into different cells by septums

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Coencocytic hypahe

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A type of fungi without any divisions by septums

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Pseudohyphae

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Result of icomplete budding, no cytoplasmic connection

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How does fungi reproduce

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Asexually by spore release
Sexually by mycelium connections and then spore release

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What is yeast

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Unicellular fungi

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What does the term Dimorphic fungi
imply?

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Two forms of fungi

Yeast like (37C)
Mold like (25C)

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Candida albicans

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Yeast infection
superficial known as Candidiasis
Systemic: Candidemia

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Most eukaryotic cells reproduce via

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Mitotic spindle

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What form of reproduction does yeast use?

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Budding

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Why are systemic yeast infections so dangerous?

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Bc any drug used to attack these cells will ALSO attack your cells as well bc both are eukaryotic

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3 main problems associated with pathogenic fungi

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Mycoses
Mytoxicoses (Mycotoxins)
Hypersensitive allergic reactions

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Examples of mycoses

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Ringworms
Cadida albicans
Crypococcus neoformans (Meningitis)

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Mytoxicoses (Mycotoxins)

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Fungal secondary metabolites, toxic to humans/animals EVEN AT LOW DOSES

(aflatoxins) - attack peanut plants
Most acidogenic naturally occurring compounds

Fumonisins: Produced by fungus that love corn - causes neurological affects in developing fetus

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Farmers lungs

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Allergic reaction resulting from breathing in spores that produced by fungus in the hay

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How does a Fungi that produce keratinase affect people?

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Degrades keratin in skin nails and hair

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3 common types of mycoses (fungal infection of body tissue)

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Cutaneous
-Subcutaneous
Systemic

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What kind of infection is athletes foot?

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Cutaneous mycoses
Epidermophyton floccosum
Tinea pedis

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What fungus is the major cause of ringworm

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Microscoporum canis
- affecting the skin, hair, and nails

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Do protozoas require hosts?
may require several hosts to complete life cycle
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Types of protozoa hosts
Definitive host (Host in which parasite matures or reaches reproductive stage and is able to reproduce) Intermediate host (Harbors developmental stages (larveae)
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How to protozoans reproduce?
Fission Budding: Small bud grows on parent (containing dna material, becomes it’s own cell) Schizogony: Organism undergoes fission of the nucleus without splitting cells
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Schizogony
Form of reproduction in protozoans where the Organism undergoes fission of the nucleus without splitting cells
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Giardia lambia
Protozoan that can form cysts Infects intestines: giardiases (Beaver fever)
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What is a cyst
(Like endomspore but for eukaryotes): under unfavourable conditions, survival stage
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Trophozooite
Vegetative stage of protozoa, where someone should be treated for a parasitical infection
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Trichomonas vaginalis
Anaerobic flagellated protozoan parasite Most common pathogenic protozoan in industrialized countries Causes STI - trichomonisasis Women usually symptomatic and men can be symptomatic Fishy smelling vaginal discharge
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What does Trichomonas vaginalis cause
STI trichomonisasis
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Toxoplasma gondii
protozoa infection spread by felines
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Who are the hosts of Toxoplasma gondii?
Definitive hosts are the felines Intermediaate hosts are people or warm blooded animals
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How does Toxoplasma gondii spread?
Cats eat contaminated meat (cysts) Gametes fuse to form oocysts in gut epithelium of cats Oocytes shed in cat feces Sporulated oocysts taken up via food or water Warm-blooded animals (intermediate hosts) Stages of oocyst development take place in heart, brain, eyes etc.
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Why shouldnt pregnant women do cat liter
Could be exposed to Toxoplasma gondii which Can cross the placenta into the devloping fetus to cause miscarriage or fetal neurological damage
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Tachyzoites
(fast reproducing forms of the intermediate stage) Sporozoites from oocytes differentiate into tachyzoites (rapid) in epithelial cells of small intestines of warm blooded hosts.
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Bradyzoites
(organism starts to slow down, less reproduction, may become cysts) In intermediate host, cysts for in brain, heart, eyes, and fetus Cats eat cyst-containing meat to start the cycle cysts.
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What are the hosts of malaria
Definitive host Anopheles mosquito (female) Bite for blood meal that is essential for the devlopment of their eggs Sporozoids contained into sporozoidal glands When anticoagulation chemicals released into body, sporozoids are released as well Intermediate host: Humans
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How does malaria affect the intermediate hosts
Red blood cells are lysed by merozoites Untreated malaria, organisms end up blocking capillaries to brain and heart
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Explain the plasmodium cycle of reproduction
Sporozoites migrate to liver of human Undergo schizogony and merozoites are produced Merozoites invade RBCs and reproduce RBC ruptures releasing meroizoites to continue process and gametes to be passed on
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Characteristics of helminths
Reduced or lack of digestive system Reduced nervous system (no need to sense) Reduced locomotion Complex reproduction
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What is implied by the complex reproduction of helminths
Dioecious (serpeate male and female animals) or monoecious (both female and male reproductive organs - hermaphrodites) Egg - larva(e) - adult
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Two forms of helminths
Flat worms (Platyhelminthes): Tapeworms, flukes Nematodes: Roundworms, pinworms
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How do helminths enter n=body
Through ingestion (eggs often found in animal muscle, therefore, will be ingested if undercooked)
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Parts of tapeworm
Neck, very small are - most of the growth takes place Sucker: Nutrient sucked in Scolex (The whole head) Hooks: Attatch to intensitinal wall Proglottid: parts of worms that mature, farther from the neck, more mature eggs inside. Will eventually break off and disintegrate to release eggs Contain testies, geneital pore which ocnnects sperm to ovaries
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Proglottid
parts of worms that mature, farther from the neck, more mature eggs inside. Will eventually break off and disintegrate to release eggs
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Trichinosis
Roundworm infection Caused by eating raw or undercooked pork or wild game infected with larvae of roundworm
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Ascaris lumbricoides
Infection by nematode worms
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Life cycle of Ascaris lumbricoides
Human ingests egg; egg hatches in intestine; larva crosses intestinal wall and travels to lung; larva is swallowed and matures in intestine; adult females lay eggs; eggs exit host in stool.
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A unicellular, photosynthetic nucleated cell would belong to which domain?
Eukaryote
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What are the reproductive spores of fungi called?
Hyphae
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What is algaes cell wall composed of
Cellulose
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Protozoa unicellular or multi
Unicellular
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Are humans the deffinitive or intermediate hosts for helminths?
Either
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Where are Helminths found in the body
Can be found in a vareity of different body systems
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Do any eukaryotes lack a mitochondria
Giardia and Trichomonas
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most effective control for malaria
eliminate Anopheles mosquitoes
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You see acid-fast oocysts in a fecal sample from a patient who has diarrhea. What is the MOST likely cause?
Cryptosporidium
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How are helminth eggs released
Section of worm called proglottids breaks off and dissolves
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Mebendazole acts against Ascaris lumbricoides by __________.
inhibiting the formation of microtubules, which prevents the worms from absorbing nutrients
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heterotrophic
Eats other animals or palnts instead of making it;s own food
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Strategies for treating a yeast infection
a topical over-the-counter ointment, such as clotrimazole or miconazole a single oral dose of fluconazole
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C albicans causes
Vaginal yeast infection Oral thrush fulminating disease
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fulminating disease
results when the yeast enters the bloodstream and travels throughout the entire body, resulting in a systemic infection. Individuals suffering from AIDS are susceptible to this type of infection.
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How do blastoconidia and chlamydoconidia produced by yeast differ from bacterial endospores?
Blastoconidia and chlamydoconidia are spore structures produced by budding in yeasts, whereas bacterial endospores are produced by bacteria under extreme conditions.
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How do pseudohyphae in yeasts differ from vegetative hyphae in filamentous fungi?
Yeasts use pseudohyphae to invade host tissue, whereas filamentous fungi use their vegetative hyphae for obtaining nutrients.
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A definitive host harbors which stage of a parasitic cycle?
adult
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Taenia saginata and Taenia solium;
tapeworms
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Best way to prevent human infection by tapeworm
Cooking raw meat to kill eggs
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Infecting more than 2 billion people worldwide, ________ are the most common causes of chronic infectious diseases.
intestinal roundworms
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