Principles of Microbiology

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Decks in this class (26)

Ch 1 Microbial Life
What is a microbe 1,
Better definition of microbe due ...,
The 5 kingdoms 3
18  cards
Ch 2 Microscopy
What is resolution 1,
What is detection 1,
What is magnification 2
19  cards
Ch 3 Bacterial Culture and Growth
What is essential nutrients 1,
Macronutrient elements needed 2,
Macronutrient ions needed 3
26  cards
Ch 4 Environmental Limitations
True or false microbes have the s...,
What are the normal growth condit...,
What is a microbe that lives outs...
19  cards
Ch 5 Microbial Control
What is sterilization 1,
What is disinfection 2,
What is antisepsis 3
22  cards
Ch 6 Bacterial Cell Structure/Function
What is the nucleoid 1,
Membrane what is the phospholipid 2,
What is cholesterol 3
15  cards
Ch 7 Bacterial Cell Structure/Function II
What does rna polymerase do 1,
The main structural difference be...,
What does mrna do 3
38  cards
Ch 8 Genomes
What is positive supercoiling 1,
What is negative supercoiling 2,
Who possesses negative supercoili...
32  cards
Ch 9 Bacterial Gene Transfer
What is transformation 1,
What is the importance of transfo...,
What is need for transformation t...
22  cards
Ch 10 Bacterial DNA repair
What is mutation 1,
What is point mutation 2,
What is transition 3
20  cards
Ch 11 Bacterial translation and secretion
What is transcription 1,
What is translation 2,
What happens after translation 3
15  cards
Ch 12 Operons
What are regulatory proteins 1,
What are repressors 2,
What are activators 3
14  cards
Ch 13 Regulation
What is rna polymerase 1,
What is core polymerase alpha2 be...,
What is sigma factor used for 3
15  cards
Ch 14 Metabolism I
What is catabolism 1,
What is anabolism 2,
What is the relationship between ...
12  cards
Ch 15 Metabolism II
What is fermentation 1,
What is homolactic fermentation 2,
What is ethanolic fermentation 3
12  cards
Ch 16 Metabolism III
What happens in a electrons trans...,
What are the three kinds of proka...,
What is proton motive force 3
7  cards
Ch 17 Metabolism IV
True or false all lithotrophs are...,
True or false nitrogen oxidation ...,
What does nitrogen oxidation look...
10  cards
Ch 18- Biosynthesis
Another name for biosynthesis 1,
What is biosynthesis 2,
Essential elements for biosynthes...
28  cards
Ch 20 Viruses
What is a virus 1,
Infectious rna is a 2,
How do viruses ensure survival 3
17  cards
Ch 21 Viral Replication
True or false viruses do not requ...,
How do bacteriophages attach to h...,
True or false bacteriophages only...
14  cards
Ch 22 Viruses: A brief tour
Blank 1
1  cards
Ch 23 Archaea
What are some archaeal features 1,
What does the archaeal cell wall ...,
Blank 3
3  cards
Ch 25 Proteobacteria
Some alpha proteobacteria are 1,
Some beta proteobacteria are 2,
Some gamma proteobacteria are 3
4  cards
Ch 27 Biofilms
When do biofilms form 1,
What is quorum sensing associated...,
True or false microbes can talk t...
5  cards
Ch 29 Plant MB
What is the rhizoplane 1,
What is the rhizosphere 2,
What do mycorrhizae do 3
11  cards
Exam 3- TopHat
Cyanobacteria are the only prokar...,
Which of the following form spores 2,
Which group of proteobacteria inc...
20  cards

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