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What does the Greek word eukaryote mean?
TRUE-nucleus
What does the Greek word prokaryote mean?
PRE-nucleus
PROKARYOTE CHROMOSOMES?
One Circular, no membrane
One
PROKARYOTE CELL WALLS?
PEPTIDOGLYCAN
PROKARYOTE REPLICATION
BINARY FISSION
DO PROKARYOTES OR EUKARYOTES HAVE ORGANELLES?
EUKARYOTES
HISTONES ARE FOUND IN:
EUKARYOTES & ARCHAEA
EUKARYOTE CHROMOSOMES?
ONE TO MANY; LINEAR IN A NUCLEAR MEMBRANE
EUKARYOTE REPLICATION
MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS
EUKARYOTE CELL WALLS?
NO PEPTIDOGLYCAN
AVERAGE SIZE OF PROKARYOTIC CELLS
.2 TO 2 MICROMETERS WIDE BY 1 TO 10 MICROMETERS IN LENGTH
AVERAGE SIZE OF EUKARYOTE CELLS?
10-500 MICROMETER IN LENGTH
AVERAGE SIZE OF VIRUS CELLS?
20 TO 1000 NANOMETERS
LARGEST BACTERIUM KNOWN
THIOMARGARITA SIZE OF A PERIOD (.75 MM)
SMALLEST CELL KNOWN
NANOARCHAEUM
0.4 MICROMETERS
COCCUS
SPHERE/ROUND
BACILLUS
STAFF/ROD-SHAPED (ALSO AN UNRELATED GENUS NAME)
SPIRILLA
RIGID SPIRAL/CORKSCREW WITH FLAGELLA
VIBRIO
CURVED ROD
SPIROCHETES
FLEXIBLE SPIRAL SHAPE WITH AXIAL FILAMENTS (ENDOFLAGELLA)
WHAT ARE THE DESCRIPTIVE STRUCTURAL PREFIXES OF BACTERIA WITH 2, 4 AND 8 CELLS)
DIPLO (1 AXIS)
TETRA (2 AXISES)
SARCINAE (CUBE OF 8)
WHAT ARE THE DESCRIPTIVE STRUCTURAL PREFIXES MEANING CLUSTERS, CHAINS, STAR-SHAPED AND SQUARE?
STAPHYLO
STREPTO
STELLA
HALOARCULA
NAME ARRANGEMENTS OF
PAIRS?
CLUSTERS?
CHAINS?
DIPLOCOCCI, DIPLOBACILLI
STAPHYLOCOCCI
STREPTOCOCCI, STREPTOBACILLI
MONOMORPHIC
BACTERIA THAT DO NOT CHANGE SHAPE UNLESS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS CHANGE.
PLEOMORHPIC
BACTERIA THAT COME IN A VARIETY OF SHAPES (RARE)
WHAT IS GLYCOCALYX?
STICKY SUGAR COATING OF PROKAYOTIC FOUND EXTERNAL TO CELL WALL.
WHAT IS GLYOCALYX MADE OF?
POLYSACCHARIDE AND/OR POLYPEPTIDE.
WHAT DOES GLYOCALYX DO?
CAN BE USE AS ENERGY IF NEEDED & PROTECTS AGAINST DEHYDRATION, KEEPS NUTRIENTS IN THE CELL.
CAPSULE
GLYCOCALYX, ORGANIZED & FIRMLY ATTACHED TO CELL WALL
WHAT TO CAPSULES PREVENT?
PHAGOCYTOSIS BY THE HOSTS IMMUNE SYSTEM
SLIME LAYER
GLYCOCALYX, UNORGANIZED, LOOSELY ATTACHED TO CELL WALL
EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDE
GLYCOCALYX MADE OF SUGARS THAT ALLOWS BACTERIA TO ATTACH TO VARIOUS SURFACES
DESCRIBE STRUCTURE OF PROKARYOTIC FLAGELLA
LONG, SEMI-RIDGED, HELICAL, CELLULAR APPENDAGE ATTACHED TO A PROTEIN HOOK
HOW ARE PROGKARYOTIC FLAGELLA ATTACHED TO A CELL?
ANCHORED TO THE CELL WALL AND CELL MEMBRANE BY THE BASAL BODY
WHAT DO FLAGELLA DO AND WHY?
APPENDAGE USED FOR LOCOMOTION BY ROTATING (RUN AND TUMBLE) IN RESPONSE TO CONCENTRATION OF STIMULI
TYPES OF STIMULI?
CHEMOTAXIS - CHEMICAL
PHOTOTAXIS - LIGHT
AXIAL FILAMENTS
ENDOFLAGELLA OF SPIROCHETES COVERED BY OUTER SHEATH, ROTATES LIKE CORKSCREW
FIMBRIAE
SHORTER, THINER THEN FLAGELLA, USED FOR ATTACHMENT NOT LOCOMOTION
PILI (SEX PILI)
LONGER THAN FIMBRIAE ONLY 1-2 PER CELL, USED TO TRANSFER DNA
WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE PROKARYOTIC CELL WALL PROVIDE?
STRUCTURE AND PROTECTION, PREVENTS OSMOTIC LYSIS. MAY, ENABLE BACTERIA TO CAUSE DISEASE
GOING INWARD WHAT ARE THE FIRST 4 STRUCTURES OF A PROKARYOTIC CELL?
FLAGELLA, FIMBRIAE, PILI
GLYCOCALYX
CELL WALL
PLASMA MEMBRANE
SOME ANTIBIOTICS WORK BY:
DAMAGING THE CELL WALL
WHAT IS A BACTERIA CELL WALL MADE OF?
PEPTIDOGLYCAN
WHAT IS A PEPTIDOGLYCAN MADE OF?
DI-SACCHARIDES (NAG & NAM) LINKED BY POLYPEPTIDES (AMINO ACIDS) TO FORM A LATTICE
DESCRIBE GRAM-POSITIVE CELL WALLS
MANY LAYERS OF PEPTIDOGLYCAN LINKED BY TEICHOIC ACIDS
TEICHOIC ACIDS
MAY REGULATE MOVEMENT OF CATIONS (+), PREVENT WALL BREAKDOWN,
PICS OF GRAM POSITIVE AND GRAM NEGATIVE CELL WALLS
TEICHOIC ACIDS
FOUND IN GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIA, LINKS LAYERS OF PEPTIDOGLYCAN
NAME THE TWO TYPES OF TEICHOIC ACIDS
1. LIPOTEICHOIC ACID - LINKS TO PLASMA MEMBRANE
2. WALL TEICHOIC ACID - LINKS TO PEPTIDOGLYCAN
DESCRIBE GRAM-NEGATIVE CELL WALLS PARTS (4)
OUTER MEMBRANE
1-2 LAYERS PEPTIDOGLYCAN INSIDE PERIPLASM
PLASMA MEMBRANE
PERIPLASM
FLUID-FILLED SPACE BETWEEN THE OUTER MEMBRANE AND PLASMA MEMBRANE
GRAM POSITIVE OR GRAM NEGATIVE CELLS MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO RUPTURE?
GRAM-NEGATIVE
COMPOSITION OF THE OUTER MEMBRANE OF GRAM-NEGATIVE CELL WALLS
COMPOSED OF LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES, LIOPPROTEINS AND PHOSPHOLIPIDS
PURPOSE OF OUTER MEMBRANE?
PROTECTS THE CELL FROM PHAGOCYES, COMPLEMENT, ANTIBIOTICS, LYSOZYME, DETERGENTS, HEAVY METALS, BILE SALTS AND CERTAIN DYES
PORINS
TRANSPORT PROTEINS IN THE OUTER MEMBRANE
COMPONENTS OF LIPOPLYSACCHARIDE
O-POLYSACCHARIDE
LIPID A
O-POLYSACCHARIDE
ANTIGEN THAT CAN BE USED TO ID CERTAIN GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
LIPID A
ENDOTOXIN THAT CAN CAUSE SHOCK, FEVER AND DEATH IF ENOUGH IS RELEASED INTO HOST BLOOD
CV-I
CRYSTAL VIOLET-IODINE CRYSTALS THAT FORM WITHIN THE CELL
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA
DEHYDRATES PEPTIDOGLYCAN AND PREVENTS CV-I FROM LEAVING
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
DISSOLVES OUTER MEMBRANE AND LEAVES HOLES IN PEPTIDOGLYCAN
PROTOPLAST
GRAM-POSITIVE CELL WHOSE CELL WALL HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY DESTROYED BUT IS STILL ALIVE AND FUNCTIONAL
SPHEROPLAST
GRAM-NEGATIVE CELL WHOSE OUTER MEMBRANE AND PEPTIDOGLYCAN WERE REMOVED
L FORMS
WALL-LESS CELLS THAT SWELL INTO IRREGULAR SHAPES
OSOMOTIC LYSIS
SWELLING AND BURSTING OF A CELL WITHOUT A CELL WALL OR WITH A DAMAGED ONE
LYSOZYME
ENZYME THAT DIGESTS THE DISACCHARIDES IN PEPTIDOGLYCAN
HOW DOES PENICILLIN WORK?
INHIBITS THE FORMATION OF PEPTIDE BRIDGES IN PEPTIDOGLYCAN OF GROWING CELLS
WHY DOESN'T PENICILLIN WORK ON GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA?
BECAUSE OF THE OUTER MEMBRANE AND THE SMALL AMOUNT OF PEPTIDOGLYCAN
ANTIBIOTICS THAT CAN PENETRATE THE OUTER MEMBRANE OF GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
SYREPTOMYCIN, CHLORAMPHENICOL TETRACYCLINE
WHY DO THE ANTIBIOTICS WE USE MAINLY TARGET ONLY PROKARYOTIC CELLS?
BECAUSE PROKARYOTIC CELLS CONTAIN STRUCTURES THAT ARE NOT FOUND IN ANIMALS WE CAN USE SUBSTANCES THAT TARGET THOSE STRUCTURES
NAME TWO WALL-LESS CELLS
MYCOPLASMS
ARCHAEA
MYCOPLASMS
BACTERIA THAT LACKS CELL WALLS BUT HAS STEROLS IN THE PLASMA MEMBRANE INSTEAD
PLASMA MEMBRANE
INNER MEMBRANE OF BOTH GRAM+ AND GRAM- CELLS
WHAT IS THE PLASMA MEMBRANE MADE OF ?
PHOSPHOLIPIDE BILAYER MADE OF AMPHIPATHIC MOLECULES (TAILS IN)
AMPHIPATHIC
A MOLECULE WITH BOTH POLAR AND NON-POLAR PARTS
WHAT ACTIONS OCCUR IN THE PLASMA MEMBRANE?
PHOTOSYNTHESIS, AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC RESPIRATION REACTIONS
THIOMARGARITA
LARGEST KNOWN BACTERIUM (0.75MM)
WHERE ARE PERIPHERAL PROTEINS FOUND?
FOUND IN AT THE INNER AND OUTER SURFACE OF THE PLASMA MEMBRANE - MOVES ACROSS THE MEMBRANE
WHERE ARE INTEGRAL PROTEINS FOUND?
EXTEND INTO OR ACROSS THE ENTIRE LIPID BILAYER - FIRMLY ANCHORED IN PLACE
TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN
INTEGRAL PROTEIN THAT SPANS THE THE BILAYER AND PROTRUDES INTO THE CYTOSOL AND EXTRACELLULAR FLUID
WHAT DO PERIPHERAL PROTEINS DO?
USED AS ENZYMES, PROVIDE STRUCTURE, ASSIST THE CELL IN CHANGING SHAPE
WHAT DO INTEGRAL PROTEINS DO?
PROVIDE CHANNELS FOR MOVEMENT OF MATERIALS INTO AND OUT OF THE CELL
DESCRIBE FLUID MOSAIC MODEL OF PLASMA MEMBRANE
VISCOUS AS OLIVE OIL
PROTEINS MOVE TO FUNCTION
PHOSPHOLIPIDS ROTATE AND MOVE LATERALLY
SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY
ALLOWS THE PASSAGE OF SOME MOLECULES BUT NOT OTHERS ACROSS THE PLASMA MEMBRANE
WHAT CANNOT PASS THROUGH THE MEMBRANE?
LARGE MOLECULES CANNOT
IONS - SLOWLY OR NOT AT ALL
WHAT CAN PASS THROUGH THE MEMBRANE?
LIPID SOLUBLE MOLECULES
SMALLER MOLECULES (H2O, O2, CO2 & SOME SIMPLE SUGARS)
WHERE ARE ENZYMES FOR ATP PRODUCTION STORED?
PLASMA MEMBRANE
CHORMATOPHORES AND THYLAKOIDS
FOLDINGS IN THE PLASMA MEMBRANE WHERE PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS
WHAT CAN CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE PLASMA MEMBRANE?
ALCOHOLS, QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS (DISINFECTANTS) AND POLYMYXIN ANTIBIOTICS.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PLASMA MEMBRANE GETS DAMAGED?
LEAKAGE OF CELL CONTENTS
NAME 3 PASSIVE PROCESSES USED TO MOVE MATERIALS ACROSS MEMBRANES
SIMPLE DIFFUSION, FACILITATED DIFFUSION & OSMOSIS
SIMPLE DIFFUSION
MOVEMENT OF A SOLUTE FROM HIGH TO LOW CONCENTRATION
FACILITATED DIFFUSION
MOVEMENT OF A SOLUTE REQUIRES HELP OF A SPECIFIC PROTEIN TO MOVE ACROSS MEMBRANE
OSMOSIS
MOVEMENT OF WATER ACROSS A SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE MEMBRANE (HIGH WATER TO LOW WATER)
OSMOTIC PRESSURE
THE PRESSURE NEEDED TO STOP THE MOVEMENT OF WATER ACROSS THE MEMBRANE.
Hypertonic Solutions
A solution with a higher salt concentration than in normal cells of the body and the blood.
ISOTONIC SOLUTION
A solution that has the same salt concentration as the normal cells of the body and the blood.
Hypotonic Solution
A solution with a lower salt concentration than in normal cells of the body and the blood.
What does active transport require?
A transporter protein and ATP
What is an active transport?
Movement of substances pumped against its concentration gradient.
What is group translocation?
A special form of active transport only in PROKAYOTES
How does group translocation work?
The substance is chemically altered during transport to prevent it from escaping.
What does group translocation require?
A specific protein and high-energy phosphate compound (like PEP)
Why is energy required for active transport?
Because substances need to move AGAINST the concentration gradient.
Phosphoenolpyruvic Acid (PEP)
High-energy phosphate compound used to "phosphorylate" or chemically alter the transported molecule to prevent movement out of the cell
Cytoplasm
Substance inside the plasma membrane.
What comprises cytoplasm?
80% Water, proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids, inorganic ions, various compounds a nuclear area, ribosomes and inclusions
Nucleoid
Nuclear area (not a nucleous!) in a prokaryote
What is in a nucleoid?
Single circular chromosome made of DNA
What does archaea have in their nucleoid that bacteria doesn't?
Histones and introns.
What happens in the nucleoid?
Proteins synthesize and partition new DNA for division during binary fission
Pasmids
Small circular DNA molecules that can be gained or lost w/o harming the cell.
How many genes does a pasmid contain?
less than 100
Nuclear Envelope
Surrounds the chromosomes in Eukaryote cells but not prokaryotic.
Why are plasmids useful in genetic engineering?
They can be transferred from one bacterium to another.
What can using plasmids in genetic engineering do for us?
Create cells with antibiotic resistance, tolerance to toxins, ones that produce toxins or synthesize enzymes.
What are Ribosomes?
Site of protein synthesis.
Subunit
Make up ribosomes, can be large or small and are made up of protein and rRNA.
What size are Prokaryotic ribosomes?
70s, made up of 30s and 50s subunits
What size are Eukaryotic ribosomes?
80s, made up of 40s and 60s subunits
Inclusions
Reserve deposits of nutrients that can be used in times of low resource availability
Name types of Inclusions
Metachromatic, Polysaccharide, Lipid
Sufur, Carboxysomes, Gas, Magnetosomes.
Metachromatic granules (volutin)
Reserve of inorganic phosphate for ATP
polysaccharide granules
Glycogen and starch inclusion.
sulfur granules
Energy reserve for sulfur bacteria that derive energy by oxidizing sulfur and sulfur compounds.
Carboxysomes
contain an enzyme necessary for CO2 fixation in bacteria that uses CO2 for energy.
Gas Vacuoles
Help bacteria maintain buoyancy.
Magnetsomes
Made of Iron oxide, help bacteria sink to reach attachment site and decompose hydrogen peroxide.
Endospores
Resting Gram+ Bacterial Cells
When do endospores form?
When essecntial nutrients can no longer be obtained.
What are endospores resistant to?
Desiccation (drying out), heat, chemicals, radiation
What species are endospores found in?
Bacillus (e.g. anthrax)
Clostridium (e.g. gangrene, tetanus, botulism, food poisoning)
Sporulation (sporogenesis)
The process of endospore formation withing the vegetative (functional parent) cell
How long does sporulation (endospore formation) take?
Several Hours
Steps to sporulation?
1. DNA replicated
2. Septum isolates new DNA & forespore is formed
3. thick protein coat around forespore
4. Wall ruptures, releasing endospore
Forespore?
double-layered membrane bound structure in a bacteria where an endospore forms.
Characteristics of endospore?
Dormant, metabolically inert, contains chromosome, some RNA, ribosomes, enzymes and very little water
How long can an endospore remain dormant?
Millions of years.
Endospore Germination
The return of a dormant endospore to a vegetative state.
What happens in endospore germination?
damage to the coat triggers enzymes to activate and break down the protective layers allowing water to enter so that metabolism can resume
Cillia
numerous short hair-like projections for movement
Flagella
long projection used for movement (think sperm)
Eukaryotic flagella movement
Whip-like
Prokaryotic flagella movement
Rotation
Eukaryotic Cell Wall layers
No peptidoglycan (reason antibiotics cannot harm us)
Made of carbohydrates
Cell Wall in algae, plants and some fungi
Cellulose
Cell wall in most fungi
Chitin
Cell wall in yeasts
Glucan & Mannan
Cell wall in Animals
Sticky
Glycocalyx
Plasma Membrane
Surrounds cytoplasm
Types of membrane proteins
Ion Channels (Pores)
Transporter
Receptors
Enzymes
Cell-identity Markers
Linkers
Ion Channels (Pores)
Allows ions (Na or P) to cross the cell membrane
Transporter Proteins
Move a polar substance from one side of the membrane to the other
Receptor Proteins
recognize and bind a specific molecule. Chemical binding to the receptor is called a ligand
Enzymes
Float or are fixated in plasma membrane - Catalyze chemical reactions
Cell-identity markers
Glycoprotein or glycolipids such as human leukocyte antigens
Types of transports
Simple Diffusion
Facilitated Diffusion
Osmosis
Active Transport
Vesicular Transport
ENDOCYTOSIS
TRANSPORTATION WHERE MATERIAL MOVES INTO A CELL
EXOCYTOSIS
INSIDE VESICLES FUSE WITH PLASMA MEMBRANE & EMPTY CONTENTS OUT OF CELL
PHAGOCYTOSIS
PSEUDOPOD EXTEND, ENGULF AND INGEST SOLIDS
PINOCYTOSIS
INGESTION OF EXTRACELLULAR FLUID
CYTOPLASM
SUBSTANCE INSIDE THE PLASMA MEMBRANE AND OUTSIDE NUCLEUS
CYTOSOL
FLUID PORTION OF CYTOPLASM
CYTOSKELETON
STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK THROUGHOUT CYTOPLASM
CYTOSKELETON COMPONENTS
MICROFILAMENTS, INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS & MICROTUBULES
CYTOPLASMIC STREAMING
MOVEMENT OF CYTOPLASM & NUTRIENTS THROUGHOUT CELLS
ORGANELLES
MEMBRANE BOUND STRUCTURES IN EUKARYOTE
NUCLEUS
NUCLEAR ENVELOPE WITH PORES SURROUNDING DNA, HISTONES
ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM
NETWORK OF CISTERNS WITHIN THE CYTOPLASM
ROUGH ER
SITE OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, STUDDED WITH RIBOSOMES
SMOOTH ER
SYNTHESIZES FATS & STEROIDS DETOXIFIES, REMOVES Pi, STORES CALCIUM
RIBOSOMES
SITE OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, MEMBRANE BOUND IN ROUGH ER, FREE IN CYTOPLASM
SIZE OF RIBOSOMES IN EUKARYOTES
80S
SIZE OF RIBOSOMES IN PROKARYOTES
70S
GOLGI COMPLEX
CISTERNS WITH ENZYMES THAT MODIFY, SORT AND PACKAGE PROTEINS
CIS FACE
ENTRY PART OF GOLGI FACES ROUGH ER
TRANS FACE
EXIT PART OF GOLGI FACES PLASMA MEMBRANE
MEDIAL CISTERNAE
CISTERNS BETWEEN THE CIS AND TRANS FACES OF GOLGI COMPLEX
LYSOSOMES
MAJOR STORAGE VESICLES CONTAINING DIGESTIVE ENZYMES
AUTOPHAGY
DIGESTION OF WORN-OUT ORGANELLES BY LYSOSOMES
AUTOLYSIS
DIGESTION OF LYSOSOMES OWN CONTENTS
VACUOLES
SPACES IN CYTOPLASM OF A PLANT
TONOPLAST
MEMBRANE SURROUNDING A VACUOLE
FUNCTION OF VACUOLES
TEMP STORAGE, FOOD TRANSPORT, STRUCTURAL SUPPORT
MITOCHONDRIA
EUKARYOTIC ORGANELLE CONTAINING KREB CYCLE ENZYMES AND ETC
MITOCHONDRIAL MATRIX
DNA FOUND INSIDE THE INNER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE WITH 70s RIBOSOMES
CHLOROPLAST
ORGANELLE IN PLANTS WITH PIGMENT CHLOROPHYLL AND 70S RIBOSOMES
PEROXISOMES
CONTAINS ENZYMES THAT OXIDIZES AMINO ACIDS, FATTY ACIDS AND ALCOHOL (MAKES H2O2)
THYLAKOIDS
MEMBRANE SACS HOLDING CHLOROPHYLL
CENTROSOMES
DENSE AREAS OF CYTOPLASM, CONTAINS THE CENTRIOLES, INVOLVED IN CELL DIVISION
CENTRIOLES
PAIR OF CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURES WITH NINE CLUSTERS OF 2 MICROTUBULES
ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY
EVOLUTION OF PROKARYOTES INTO EURKARYOTES