Bacteria Essay

C. botulinum is a toxic bacteria deadly to humans. It is found in soils, and decaying animal carcasses throughout the world. It is an obligate anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria. Botulism was discovered by Émile van Ermengem in 1897 after a contaminated piece of ham poisoned thirty people. He was the first to isolate the bacteria, and determined that C. botulinum was capable of producing heat-resistant endospores. He is also credited with discovering the deadly toxin C.…

Introduction Microbes are essential to everyday life. Going from the basic food we eat to biogeochemical cycles, if we didn 't have biogeochemical cycles we would no longer have any of the resources that we have now; for example, there is plenty of nitrogen in the atmosphere but it 's all not available until it has been fixed, and that is when the microbes come in and changes the nitrogen in a way that is usable. Humans come in contact with microbes every day there is never a time there are…

Health Science Technology 3/4/2016 INTRODUCTION Escherichia Coli most known as (E.Coli) is a bacteria that normally gets into your intestine of humans and sometimes even warm blooded animals .Some of the E.Coli are even capable of causing diseases with conditions that can harm your immune system . E. Coli can make everyone sick but it mostly affects…

Bacteria such as campylobacter, salmonella, and e-coli are the most common bacterial pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses. Not all bacteria are bad for humans (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases), in fact, most are beneficial for us, and we have many bacteria inside of us right now. Norovirus and Hepatitis A are the most common viruses that cause foodborne illnesses…

origin of eukaryotes and their mitochondria (Martin, Garg and Zimorski, 2015, p.1678). A Prokaryotic cell contains structural components such as: Cell wall is made of peptidoglycan. Gram-positive bacteria contain a thick cell wall with many layers of peptidoglycan and gram-negative bacteria have only few layers of peptidoglycan. The cell membrane of a bacterial cell has infoldings- mesosomes are intensely folded and are associated with DNA and also carry out respiration,…

Information about the Bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa During microbiology lab, an unknown bacteria culture in liquid broth was assigned to be identified by conducting a series of various tests. Nearly twenty different tests were conducted on the bacteria, but the most important of these was Gram staining test, gelatin stab test, and oxidase test. The results of these three tests allowed for the determination of the bacteria genus and species. The first test conducted was Gram staining. In the…

be prescribed a course of antibiotics. Antibiotics are designed to assist the body with fighting off invading bacteria and rid the body of the infection. However, with the increasing use of antibiotics, certain types of bacteria are becoming resistant to the medication as prescriptions become more widespread, making the drugs less effective. This selective pressure encourages the bacteria to develop a resistance to the old medication, and may even develop into a ‘super bug’. Microevolution is…

from the experiment at 1 and 2 minutes confirm the fast acting characteristic of ethanol as it kills most bacteria in 5…

The purpose of the research was to potentially find a new bacteria that is capable of producing an antibiotic against one or more of the six ESKAPE pathogens (a group of pathogens that are resistant to most if not all current antibiotics). All research protocol was based on the Yale Small World Initiative and the third edition of Microbiology Laboratory Theory & Application. One bacteria from a sample of soil collected (colony #18) was tested for its ability to produce antibiotics against two of…

This is a prokaryote, gram-negative bacteria with a barrel shape. It is found as a normal flora in the intestines of most humans that benefit us with the production of vitamin K and prevent colonization of pathogens bacteria. Normally E. Coli is not resistant to ampicillin therefore this experiment consist to transform E. coli to be ampicillin-resistant with the use of pUC18 and…