Module 07: Microbial Physiology and Genetics Flashcards
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This is the study of vital life processes of organisms.
Physiology
This concerns the vital life processes of microorganisms.
Microbial physiology
How can scientists learn about human cells?
By
(1) Studying the nutritional needs of bacteria
(2) Their metabolic pathways,
(3) And why they live grow multiply or die under certain
conditions
Why are bacteria fungi and viruses used extensively in genetic studies?
Because they produce generation after generation so rapidly. (Their morphology, nutritional needs and metabolic reactions are easily observable)
What are the six (6) major chemical elements in all living protoplasm?
(1) Carbon
(2) Hydrogen
(3) Oxygen
(4) Nitrogen
(5) Phosphorus
(6) Sulfur
Other elements include: Sodium, potassium, chlorine, magnesium, calcium, iron, iodine and other trace elements.
Combinations of the six (6) major chemicals and other elements make up what?
Vital macromolecules:
(1) Carbohydrates
(2) Lipids
(3) Proteins
(4) Nucleic Acids
These are materials that organisms are unable to synthesize but are required for building macromolecules and sustaining life.
Essential nutrients (certain essential amino acids and essential fatty acids) - must be supplied to organism continually for it to survive
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use light as an energy source.
Phototrophs
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use either inorganic or organic chemicals as an energy source.
Chemotrophs.
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use inorganic chemicals as an energy source.
Chemolithotrophs
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use organic chemicals as an energy source.
Chemoorganotrophs
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use carbon dioxide (CO2) as their sole source of carbon.
Autotrophs
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use organic compounds other than CO2 as carbon sources.
Heterotrophs
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use light as an energy source and CO2 as a carbon source.
Photoautotrophs (algae, plants and cyanobacteria - photosynthetic bacteria along with green and purple sulfur bacteria)
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use light as an energy source and organic compounds other than CO2 as a carbon source.
Photoheterotrophs (purple and green non sulfur bacteria)
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use chemicals as an energy source and CO2 as their carbon source.
Chemoautotrophs (Hydrogen, Iron and Sulfur along with nitrifying bacteria)
These microorganisms according to their energy and carbon sources use chemicals as an energy source and organic compounds other than CO2 as a carbon source.
Chemoheterotrophs (fungi, protozoa, and humans)
This is the study of the interactions between living organisms and the world around them.
Ecology
This refers to the interactions between living organisms and their nonliving environment.
Ecosystem
What is entailed to attain the prime functioning of ecosystems?
Interrelationships among the different nutritional types
(Phototrophs, such as algae and plants, are the producers of food and oxygen for chemoheterotrophs, such as animals. Dead plants and animals would cluster if saprophytic organisms did not break them down.)
This refers to all chemical reactions that occur in a cell.
Metabolism
The chemical reactions that occur in the cell under metabolism are known as what ___________.
Metabolic Reactions
Metabolic reactions are enhanced and regulated by
enzymes known as _________________.
Metabolic Enzymes (can perform if it possesses the appropriate metabolic enzyme and if the genome of the cell contains the gene that codes the production of that enzyme)
Enzymes are known as what?
Biologic Catalysts since they either cause a particular chemical reaction to occur or accelerate it.