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What is a plasmid?

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The circular piece of DNA inside a bacteria.

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Bacteria is _____[Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic]

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Bacteria is prokaryotic

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What are the 3 types of bacteria and what are their general shapes?

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Bacilli(Rods), Cocci(Circular), and Spirilli(Corkscrew/Spiral)

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What are the 2 Kingdoms of bacteria?

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Eubacteria and Archaebacteria

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What Kingdom of bacteria lives in harsh environments?

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Archaebacteria

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What do decomposers do?

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Break down dead organic compounds and releases the nitrogen and other materials back into the environment to be used by other organisms.

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What is bacteria’s use in biotechnology?

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Synthesize drugs via genetic engineering(Recombinant DNA) + Harvest antibiotics to treat other bacterial infections

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How does bacteria clean the environment?

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They digest organic compounds and nitrates to purify water supplies.

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What is a pathogen?

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Anything that causes disease.

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What are some ways bacteria can cause disease?

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Damaging host tissue; may enter + interfere with cell.
Releasing toxins; Toxins are poisons derived from microorganisms, causes disease if high concentration.

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Which one, Gram Positive or Gram Negative, have more resistance(R gene)

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Gram Negative is more resistant

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What color does an indicator turn if a bacteria is Gram Negative?

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Pink

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What color does an indicator turn if a bacteria is Gram Positive?

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Purple

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What are 5 ways of controlling bacterial disease?

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Vaccines
Hygiene; Washing hands, using soap, etc.
Cooking; 160 degrees+ kills bacteria
Refrigeration; Cold temp decreases bacteria growth
Sterilization; really hot, kills everything

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How do vaccines work?

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A small or weakened dose of a bacteria or virus is injected into a person, causing an immune response, and memory cells to be created if the real one attacks.

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How is a bacterial disease treated?

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Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections, but overuse can cause the bacteria to become resistant.

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How is the effectiveness of an antibiotic measured?

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A zone of inhibition(where there are no bacteria); the bigger the zone, the more effective it is.

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What is an Obligate Intracellular Parasite?

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An organism with no organelles+nucleus, must have a host to reproduce. Ex. Viruses

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What is a capsid?

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The protein surrounding the virus.

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What are the 2 ways a virus can reproduce?

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Lytic Infections/Cycles and Lysogenic Infections/Cycles

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What is a lytic infection?

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An active infection in which the virus goes into a host cell, takes it over, uses the cells DNA to reproduce, and kills the cells, releasing new viruses.

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What is a lysogenic infection?

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A latent infection where the virus injects its DNA/RNA in a cell’s DNA,, which lays dormant in a cell, being reproduced along with the cell, and goes into the Lytic cycle only once it gets triggered by an environmental trigger.

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How are viruses used in biotechnology?

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Viruses act as vectors(transmitting agent) to insert and correct a gene in a cell.

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What are two ways viral diseases can be controlled?

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Vaccines & Hygiene

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True or False, viruses can be treated with antibiotics.
False, antibiotics do not work on viruses.
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What do bacteria lack?
Membrane-bound organelles & a true nucleus
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What environments do Archaebacteria live in?
Extreme environments
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What type of Archaebacteria lives in a hot spring?
Thermophiles
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What type of Archaebacteria lives in a high salt concentration?
Halophiles
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What type of Archaebacteria lives in a high methane concentration?
Methanogens
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What kingdom of bacteria are responsible for typical diseases?
Eubacteria
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Why is a gram negative bacteria more resistant than a gram positive bacteria?
They have two lipid bilayer membranes, compared to only 1.
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What system is the body's defense system?
The Immune System
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What is another name for White Blood Cells(WBCs)
Lymphocytes
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What are the 2 types of WBCs?
Phagocytes and Lymphocytes
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What do phagocytes do?
They engulf and destroy pathogens
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What is an antigen?
A tag or marker that tell what the pathogen is
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How do WBCs recognize antigens?
They have receptors to detect them
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What do antibodies do?
They bind to a pathogen's antigens and mark the pathogen for destruction.
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What are the 2 types of lymphocytes?
B-Cells and T-Cells
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What is another name for an antibody?
An Immunoglobulin(Ig)
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What type of invader do lymphocytes deal with?
Specific invaders
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What is the main function of T-cells?
To recognize the pathogen and kill infected body cells
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What is the main function of B-cells?
To make antibodies
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What antibody(Ig-) causes allergies?
IgE
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What are some things that make up the 1st line of defense?
Skin, Sweat, Stomach Acid
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What are the 3 immune divisions?
Nonspecific Defense(1st and 2nd line), Specific Defense(3rd line), and Acquired Immunity
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What is the main characteristic of the 2nd line of defense?
It is an inflammatory response.
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What causes fevers?
Pyrogens raise the body temp, causing a fever.
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What kinds of WBCs are in the 2nd line of defense
Macrophages and Neutrophils engulf the pathogen, and Natural Killer(NK) cells target abnormal body cells.
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What do Lymph nodes do and what division are they in?
They act as filters, and are in the Nonspecific division.
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Where are B-cells made?
Inside the bone marrow(B for bone marrow)
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Where do T-cells mature?
They are made in bone marrow, but they mature in the Thymus(T for thymus)
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What are the 2 types of primary responses?
Cell-Mediated Immunity and Antibody Mediated Immunity(AKA Humoral Immunity)
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Which types of Lymphocyte carries out Cell-Mediated Immunity?
T-cells
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What do infected cells display on their surface?
Antigens
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Once a macrophage(or any infected body cells) get infected, what are they called?
APCs, or Antigen-Presenting Cells
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What do APCs release?
IL-1, or Interleukin-1, a chemical
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What does IL-1 do?
It attracts Helper T-Cells(TH Cells) to it.
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What do TH cells release once they bind to an APC?
IL-2, or interleukin-2
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What does CD-4 do?
It holds the TH cell and the APC together while the TH cell recognizes the pathogen
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What does IL-2 do?
It alerts the rest of the immune system to the pathogen. It helps B-Cells make more antibodies, attracts Cytotoxic(Killer) T-cells(CT cells). REQUIRED FOR DEFENSE
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What is another name for cell death?
Apoptosis
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How do TC cells cause cell death?
They inject toxic chemicals(like Perforin) to cause a cell to Lyse/Burst
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What do suppressor T-cells(TS cells) do?
They stop T and B cells from overreacting or harming the body.
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What do Memory T-cells(TM cells) do?
They cause a secondary immune response if same antigen(i.e pathogen) invades again.
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What type of Lymphocyte carries out Antibody-Mediated Immunity?
B-cells

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