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| What does Fimbriae do for bacteria? |
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| adhere to each other and to surfaces |
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transfer of genetic material
(Bacteria sex) |
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| Why is Pili beneficial to a bacterial colony? |
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| It can conjugate it's DNA with the same or different bacteria giving it's genetic traits to the other bacteria. |
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| Function of the Cell Wall |
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| Maintain Shape, rupture prevention |
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| Why is the Cell Wall an important target to antibiotics? |
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| Clinically, it contributes to the ability of some species to cause disease. |
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| Bacterial cell wall is composed of... |
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| Penicillin prevents what from being formed? |
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| Why doesn't purple dye wash out of Gram positive cells? |
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Definition
| because of the thick cell wall |
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| Why do Gram negative cells dye pink? |
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| Alcohol dissolves the thin cell wall so purple washes away. |
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| regulate movement of cations in and out of the cell & wall integrity; only found in Gram+ bacteria |
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| Bacteria cell outer membrane |
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| immune system evasion, barrier, admits nutrients through porins |
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| among prokaryotes-very thin or no cell wall |
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| Does archaea have peptidoglycan? |
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| Plasma membrane function and composition. |
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Encloses cytoplasm
Prokaryotes- formed from phospholipids
Eukaryotes- formed from sterols and carbohydrates |
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| Most important function of the cell membrane. |
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Definition
Selectively lets material in and out of the cell.
nutrients in, waste out |
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| Plasma membranes of bacteria contain enzymes capable of catalyzing the chemical reactions that break down nutrients and produce ______. |
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| Simple diffusion-why do particles move to areas of lower concentration |
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| How do bacteria survive in hypertonic solutions. |
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| They have rigid cell walls |
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| How do halophilic cells survive in hypotonic solutions. |
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Definition
| They fill themselves with molecules to increase the amount of solute inside the cell, thereby bringing themselves closer to equilibrium |
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| How do small ions passively get through a selectively permeable membrane? |
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| Facilitated diffusion by using transporter proteins. |
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| carries all the information required for the cell's structures and functions. |
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| Plasmids (bonus genes) are only found in |
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| All eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells contain ribosomes. which function as the sites of _____. |
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How do Prokaryotic ribosomes differ from eukaryotic
ribosomes. |
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| The number of proteins and rRNA molecules they contain; they are also somewhat smaller and less dense than ribosomes of eukaryotic cells. |
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| How can some prokaryotic cells survive without nutrients for so long? |
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Definition
| They form endospores which allow the cell to remain dormant. |
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| Prokaryotic reserve deposits |
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| Magnetesomes allow the cell to. |
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| Gas vacuoles allow the cell to |
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| Mitochondria creates _______ and makes__________ |
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Do mitochondrion and chloroplasts have their own
DNA and rRNA that is seperate from that of the
cell? |
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| Yes, but they cannot live without the cell |
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| This cell Has no nucleus. |
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| This cell Usually has a cell wall? |
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| This cell's Sexual recombination involves meiosis? |
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