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Who was the first person to see bacterial cells with the microscope? |
Leeuwenhoek |
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What process was studied by Redi and Spallanzani? |
Spontaneous generation |
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The process of____ involve inoculation of dried smallpox scabs under the skin |
Variolation |
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What is the name for the field of study established by Semmelweis and Snow in the mid-1800s? |
Epidemiology |
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Around what time did biology start being studied? |
Around the 1800s |
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Six elements essential to the survival living organisms |
Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur |
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Important trace elements |
Manganese, iron, copper, zinc |
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Charge associated with protons and neutrons |
Protons bear one positive electrical charge and neutrons have no charge |
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Charge associated with electrons |
Negative |
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Adams of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons are called |
Isotopes |
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Isotopes that are unstable and give of energy in the form of radiation are called |
Radio isotopes |
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If an uncharged Adam gains or loses electrons the resulting atom is called |
An ion |
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The loss or gain of a proton results in |
A different element |
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The loss or gain of a neutron results in |
An isotope |
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The loss or gain of electron results in |
An ion |
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Negatively charged ion is called |
Anion |
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A positively charged ion is called |
Cation |
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When one atom gives up its valence electron to another this results in the formation of |
Ionic bond |
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Glucose molecular formula |
C6H12O6 |
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Nonpolar covalent bonds form |
Hydrocarbons |
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The formation of maltose is based on what type of reaction |
Dehydration reaction |
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Glucose + glucose |
Maltose |
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The reef formation of two glucose molecules from maltose is because of what type of reaction |
Hydrolysis reaction |
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The sum of all chemical reactions in cells, including dehydration and hydrolysis reaction's is referred to as |
Cell metabolism |
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What is he is to Preevent pH |
Buffers |
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Name the organic compounds |
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids |
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Carbohydrates are organic compounds composed of |
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
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Carbohydrate functions |
Some carbohydrates function of meter fuel sources in cells, whereas other carbohydrates function of structural molecules present in cell walls and nucleic acid |
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Simple sugars are called |
Monosaccharide |
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Simple hexose sugars include |
Galactose and fructose |
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A five carbon pentose sugar is called |
Ribose |
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Five carbon sugar is important in the structure of what |
Nucleic acid's |
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Name the three most common disaccharides |
Sucrose, maltose, lactose |
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What are the two common energy storage polysaccharides and algal and some bacterial cells |
Starch and glycogen |
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This is a structural polysaccharide that is a component of the cell walls of many single called algae and plants |
Cellulose |
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What forms the cell walls of fungi |
Chitin |
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What forms the cell walls of most bacterial cells |
Peptidoglycan |
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Lipids are used as important_____ I mini micro organisms, but not bacterial species |
Stored energy sources |
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The majority of lipids are ______,______,_____ |
Fats, phospholipids and sterols |
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What are fats composed of |
Fat consists of three carbon glycerol molecule and three long chain fatty acid's |
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How many carbons are typically in a fatty acid |
Between 16 and 18 carbon Atoms |
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Another type of lipid found and cell membrane's is |
Phospholipids |
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Phospholipids contain how many fatty acid tails attached to glycerol |
2 |
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DNA and rna are composed of repeating monomers called |
Nucleotides |
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I nucleotide has three components |
Hey sugar molecule, a phosphate group and a nucleobase |
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DNA and RNA you are covalently join through what type of reaction |
Dehydration reaction |
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Obligate aerobes |
Require oxygen to grow |
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Microaerophiles |
11 low oxygen environment; Treponema padillidum |
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Anaerobes |
Do not or cannot use oxygen |
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In the glycoxylate bypass, what to carbon compound is added to glycoxalate in order to replenish an important precursor metabolite? |
Acetyl coA |
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Name the building blocks |
Rowdy assets, carbohydrates, amino acids, nucleic acid's |
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Production of anabiotic's is most likely to take place in the ____phase |
Stationary |
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Penicillin controls bacterial growth by |
Preventing cross-link formation and peptidoglycans |
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Organisms that can use CO2 as only source of carbon |
Autotrophs |
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Organisms that Messi is organic molecules for carbon |
Heterotrophs |
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Organisms that use light as a source of energy |
Phototroph |
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Organisms that use light as a source of energy |
Phototroph |
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Organisms that oxidize organic matter for energy |
Chemotrophs |
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Cocci shape |
Round |
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Two domains prokaryotes |
Bacteria and Archaea |
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Selective medium contains |
Ingredients to inhibit growth of certain species and allow the growth of others |
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Differential medium contains |
Specific chemicals to indicate species that possess or lack a bio chemical process |
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The pour plate isolation method allows |
Separation of species through dilution of a sample |
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The pour plate isolation method allows |
Separation of species through dilution of a sample |
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What does turbidity refer to |
Cloudiness of a sample |
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Lysozyme |
An antimicrobial enzyme |
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Cofactors commonly required by enzymes |
Mg2, fe, Zn |
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Feedback inhibition |
Inhibits an enzyme in the pathway so no product is available to feed the next reaction this is one of the most common patterns of inhibition |
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Noncompetitive inhibition |
Changing the shape of an active site so the substrate no longer fits |
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Competitive inhibitor |
Blocking the active site with the attachment of a similar shape molecule so the substrate in a bind |
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ATP is made where in prokaryotes |
Cell membrane |
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Anaerobic respiration |
This pathway does glycolysis followed by fermentation |
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Aerobic respiration |
This pathway includes the processes of my classes, citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation |
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Cellular respiration is a series of what type of pathways |
Catabolic |
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Describe glycolysis |
Glycolysis is the splitting of a six carbon glucose molecule into two 3-carbon pyruvate molecules |
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What is the net gain of ATP during glycolysis |
2 |
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What are the products of glycolysis |
2 Pyruvate, 2 ATP, two NADH |
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Before entering the Krebs cycle, the pyruvate molecules produced in glycolysis enter a transition step in which they are converted to |
Acetyl coA molecules |
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Product of kreb cycle |
Do you turn of the cycle involves a enzyme controlled reactions. To ATP, two of ADH, and six NADH are produced. Co2 is a waste product |
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What is the complex called when pyruvate gets converted to acetyl coA |
Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex |
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1 glucose molecule yields what in the kreb cycle |
Net 10 NADH Net 2 fadh 2 4 atp Co2 |
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What are the four protein complexes card in the electron transport chain |
Cytochromes |
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This harnesses the energy from the flowing protons to phosphorylate ADP into ATP |
ATP synthase |