Coliform bacteria

pesticides and herbicides to be used in food production, leading to the depletion of trace minerals and the destruction of critical soil microbes crucial to human health. (“Good Reasons” 2). The proteins added in GMO’s may be affecting the micro bacteria in the soil. This in turn is disrupting the natural nitrogen cycle that keeps the soil fertile. Research shows that this may be disrupting the healthy processes in soil, which could be lowering the quality of soil and making it harder to…

Apoptosis or Programmed cell death (PCD) is a regulated process of cell death where unwanted or damaged cells are eliminated. It is an important component of a cell’s growth, development, and homeostasis in multicellular organisms. The programmed cell death process consists of the cell’s cytoplasm condensing and within an hour getting phagocytized by the neighbouring cell. Throughout the whole process, the cell’s membrane is still intact and this prevents the contents of the cell from getting…

and harmful Pathogens are carried out by three stages of defense that your body transmits. Antibiotic resistance has a direct connection to the overuse of artificial immunity agents caused from antibiotics and vaccines. When Pathogens such as Bacteria…

The development of biotechnology for pesticide resistance is projected to play a critical role in the agricultural industry for its potential benefits in cell and tissue culture and genetic and biochemical techniques, though minimally used today. The most common role of biotechnology thus far has been the circumnavigation of resistance to herbicides, but remains to be applied to fungicides, insecticides and rodenticides. The latest biotechnology is being developed in its techniques for…

1.2 Fungal Plant Pathogens For centuries, Canadian farmers have lost their crops to disease caused by fungal plant pathogens. In agriculture, crop contamination is detected in both pre- and postharvest stages of growth (Bonaterra et al., 2003). During preharvest field preparation, the objective is for farmers to mitigate the negative impacts on biodiversity, improve forest production and minimize impacts on the residual forest stand, soil and water values (Chung et al., 2008). The current use…

The two types of bacteria are archaebacteria and eubacteria. What characteristics distinguish these two groups from the other kingdoms? These two groups are different from other kingdoms because all cells in these kingdoms are single-celled organisms whose organelles are not membrane bounds. They are also microscopically small. What is the average size of a bacterium? An average bacterium is about 1-2 micrometres long. How many prokaryote species have been discovered? How many are estimated to…

that the small cages can raise the number of animals getting sick and that the amount of medicine given to them is making the bacteria resistant which in turn can have negative health effects on humans. One factor spreading disease is the small cages that animals from factory farms are kept in. In the past…

Alkaline phosphatase (AP) is a homodimeric enzyme complex that is commonly found in a wide range of organisms, from bacteria to all tissues of the human body. AP is a zinc metalloenzyme (1), in which metal ions play a key role in the regulation of catalytic activities and stabilization of enzyme-substrate complex. As proposed by Gettins and Coleman using NMR studies (10), each active site of AP comprises of three metal binding sites, which acknowledged as M1, M2, and M3. Two zinc ions bind to…

This bacteria had a positive catalase test meaning that it contains the enzyme catalase and was able to turn the hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen and that this bacteria uses aerobic respiration. When plated on a mannitol/salt plate the bacteria was able to grow on the plate meaning that it has a resistance to high salt environment and live in environments that are high in salt, but had a negative fermentation result meaning that it was unable to ferment mannitol. Also, this bacteria was…

Bacteria are coming from the Greek word bakteria, meaning little stick, even though the first observed bacteria was in a rod shape, bacteria can come in many forms, spirals, spherical in shape. In 1928 a British scientist named Frederick Griffith discovered that previously harmless bacteria could change their own nature and become capable of causing disease (Black, 2012) What exactly then is a bacteria? Is a microscopic living one cell organism, consisting of a cytoplasm enclosed in a cell…