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The genetic material carried by a prokaryote is called -

Called as nucleoid or genophore or incipient nucleus or fibriller nucleus.

What is cyclosis?

It is the circular distribution of cytoplasm for distribution of nutrients.


Absent in monerans.

> 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.

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

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

Smallest bacteria

Haemophilus influenzae


Dialister pneumosintes

Largest non photosynthetic eubacteria

Epulopiscium fishelsonii

Longest filamentous bacteria

Beggiotoa mirabilis

Longest bacteria

Spirochaete, Spirillum, Oscillatoria

Examples of pleomorphic bacteria

Rhizobium and Acetobacter

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



The pili which are shorter, infective and present only on pathogenic bacteria are called as

Fimbrae

What protects the bacteria from thermal injuries ?

Teichoic acids which are acid polymers of alcohol, phosphate & glucose.

Name 2 antibiotic which destroy the cell wall of monerans.

Cyclosporin


Penicillin

What makes the unit membrane of bacteria rigid?

Hopanoids - penta cyclic sterols

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

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.

Who proposed Gram staining ?


In which year ?

Gram


1884

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

Syphilis is caused by -

Treponema pallidium

Example of budding in monerans -

Hypomonas polymorpha

Arrange the endospore wall layers from inside to outside --

Example of transformation -



Was given by -



Explanation by -

Pneumococcus


Streptococcus pneumoniae



Grifith



Avery & co - workers

In transduction, the cycle which causes death of the host is called-

Lytic cycle

Eg. of tumor inducing bacteria -



Eg. of root inducing bacteria -



R-plasmid are resistant to which antibiotics?

Agrobacterium tumefaciens



Agrobacterium rhizogen



Tetracyclin & ampicilin

In transduction genetic exchange occurs in which cycle?

Lysogenic cycle

Formation of F' male by fragmentation in episome such that the plasmid on separation carries portion of nucleoid genes :

Sexduction

Actinomycetes also called as -

Ray fungi, mycobacteria, mycelial bacteria, filamentous bacteria

Actinomycetes reproduce by the means of ?

Sporangiosphore


Conidia


Arthrospore

World's richest source of protein -



2nd richest source of protein -

Spirullina



Chlorela

Who were the first oxygenic photosynthesis in bacteria ?

Cyanobacteria

Due to what are thermal cyanobacteria able to tolerate high temperatures ?

Homopolar bonds in their proteins

The Red Sea is red because of which blue green alga?

Trichodesmium erythraeum

Cyanobacteria association :



With water fern -



With protists is called -

Azolla



Cyanelle

Mycoplasma were first observed by -



Term given by -

Pasteur



Nowak


First discovered antibiotic was -



Term antibiotic was given by -



First discovered antibiotic from bacteria was -



Smallest known anaerobic prokaryotes -



Penicillin



S. A. Waksman



Streptomycin obtained from Streptomyces



Mycoplasmas

How do antibiotics like tetracycline and streptomycin work ?

Antibiotics like these work by inhibiting Protein synthesis on ribosomes

The term episome was given by -



Space between cell wall and cell memberane -

Jacob and Wollman



Periplasmic space

When L - form is gram -ve -



When L - form is gram +ve -

Spheroplast



Protoplast

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)

Example of transduction -



Given by -

Salmonella



Zinder & Lederberg

Example of conjugation -



Given by -

E. coli



Lederberg & Tatum

Pathogen which cause disease are called -

Virulent

Are archaebacteria gram+ or gram-

Gram-


Because peptidoglycan is absent in them.

Who are called as Jokers of microbiology ?

Mycoplasmas

Diseases caused by mycoplasmas -