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The genetic material carried by a prokaryote is called - |
Called as nucleoid or genophore or incipient nucleus or fibriller nucleus. |
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What is cyclosis? |
It is the circular distribution of cytoplasm for distribution of nutrients. Absent in monerans. |
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> Study of bacteria :
> Who coined the term bacteria?
> Bacteria was first observed by _____ in stored rainwater. |
Bacteriology
Cohn and Ehrenberg
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek He called them animal cules. |
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Who gave the germ theory?
The technique of pasteurization was given by -
Who is the father of microbiology? |
Louis Pasteur
Father - Louis Pasteur & Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek |
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Who discovered Anthrax, tuberculosis and Cholera causing bacteria?
Who is the father of bacteriology? Who was the first to obtain the pure culture of bacteria ? |
Robert Koch |
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Smallest bacteria |
Haemophilus influenzae Dialister pneumosintes |
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Largest non photosynthetic eubacteria |
Epulopiscium fishelsonii |
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Longest filamentous bacteria |
Beggiotoa mirabilis |
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Longest bacteria |
Spirochaete, Spirillum, Oscillatoria |
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Examples of pleomorphic bacteria |
Rhizobium and Acetobacter |
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Who gave different forms of bacteria on the basis of flagella ?
If only one flagella is present on one side If single flagella is present on opposite sides Many flagella present on single side Many flagella present on opposite sides No flagella Flagella covering the whole body |
Thimann in 1959 Monotrichous Amphitrichous Cephalotrichous Lophotrichous Atrichous Peritrichous |
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The pili which are shorter, infective and present only on pathogenic bacteria are called as |
Fimbrae |
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What protects the bacteria from thermal injuries ? |
Teichoic acids which are acid polymers of alcohol, phosphate & glucose. |
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Name 2 antibiotic which destroy the cell wall of monerans. |
Cyclosporin Penicillin |
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What makes the unit membrane of bacteria rigid? |
Hopanoids - penta cyclic sterols |
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What is 'L - form'? Who was the first to explain the L-form? |
When the bacterial cell wall is removed artificially but they possess the cell membrane, such type of bacteria are called L-form or Lister form. Kleinberger |
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The term plasmid was given by ?
Who secretes the antibiotic colicin and why? |
Lederberg
Colicinogenic plasmid possessing bacteria To prevent the growth of other microorganisms and reduce competition. |
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Who proposed Gram staining ? In which year ? |
Gram 1884 |
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Arrange the bacteria on the basis of the respiration [whether they are obligate/facultative] -- Azotobacter, Clostridium botulinm, E. coli, Acetobacter aciti, Rhodopseudomonas, Bacillus subtilis, Clostridium tetni |
Ob. Anaerobes - Clostridium botulinm Fac. Aerobes - E. coli, Rhodopseudomonas Fac. Anaerobes - Acetobacter aciti, Clostridium tetni Ob. Aerobes - Azotobacter, Bacillus subtilis |
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Syphilis is caused by - |
Treponema pallidium |
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Example of budding in monerans - |
Hypomonas polymorpha |
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Arrange the endospore wall layers from inside to outside -- |
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Example of transformation -
Was given by - Explanation by - |
Pneumococcus Streptococcus pneumoniae
Grifith Avery & co - workers |
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In transduction, the cycle which causes death of the host is called- |
Lytic cycle |
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Eg. of tumor inducing bacteria -
Eg. of root inducing bacteria - R-plasmid are resistant to which antibiotics? |
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Agrobacterium rhizogen Tetracyclin & ampicilin |
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In transduction genetic exchange occurs in which cycle? |
Lysogenic cycle |
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Formation of F' male by fragmentation in episome such that the plasmid on separation carries portion of nucleoid genes : |
Sexduction |
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Actinomycetes also called as - |
Ray fungi, mycobacteria, mycelial bacteria, filamentous bacteria |
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Actinomycetes reproduce by the means of ? |
Sporangiosphore Conidia Arthrospore |
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World's richest source of protein - 2nd richest source of protein - |
Spirullina Chlorela |
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Who were the first oxygenic photosynthesis in bacteria ? |
Cyanobacteria |
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Due to what are thermal cyanobacteria able to tolerate high temperatures ? |
Homopolar bonds in their proteins |
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The Red Sea is red because of which blue green alga? |
Trichodesmium erythraeum |
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Cyanobacteria association : With water fern -
With protists is called - |
Azolla
Cyanelle |
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Mycoplasma were first observed by - Term given by - |
Pasteur Nowak |
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First discovered antibiotic was -
Term antibiotic was given by -
First discovered antibiotic from bacteria was -
Smallest known anaerobic prokaryotes -
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Penicillin
S. A. Waksman
Streptomycin obtained from Streptomyces
Mycoplasmas |
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How do antibiotics like tetracycline and streptomycin work ? |
Antibiotics like these work by inhibiting Protein synthesis on ribosomes |
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The term episome was given by -
Space between cell wall and cell memberane - |
Jacob and Wollman
Periplasmic space |
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When L - form is gram -ve - When L - form is gram +ve - |
Spheroplast Protoplast |
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Amino acids in cell wall of prokaryotes - The cell wall of prokaryotes is strong and rigid because of the presence of what? |
L - alanine, D - alanine, D - glutamic acid and also Lysine
Murein (or peptidoglycan) |
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Example of transduction -
Given by - |
Salmonella
Zinder & Lederberg |
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Example of conjugation - Given by - |
E. coli Lederberg & Tatum |
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Pathogen which cause disease are called - |
Virulent |
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Are archaebacteria gram+ or gram- |
Gram- Because peptidoglycan is absent in them. |
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Who are called as Jokers of microbiology ? |
Mycoplasmas |
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Diseases caused by mycoplasmas - |
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