Branches of Microbiology Overview
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List different branches of microbiology.

  • Medical microbiology (correct)
  • Industrial microbiology (correct)
  • Environmental microbiology (correct)
  • Immunology (correct)
  • Agricultural microbiology (correct)
  • Public health microbiology (correct)

    • What does medical microbiology study?

    Microbes that cause diseases in humans and animals.

    What does public health microbiology monitor and control ?

    The spread of diseases in communities.

    What does immunology study?

    <p>The immune system and its response to infection, including vaccination and blood testing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does industrial microbiology focus on?

    <p>The use of microbes in various industries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does agricultural microbiology examine?

    <p>The relationships between microbes and plants and animals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does environmental microbiology study?

    <p>The impact of microbes on different environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is credited with disproving spontaneous generation?

    <p>Louis Pasteur</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is credited with first observing microbes?

    <p>Robert Hooke</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who made small microscopes to examine fabric, draw animalcules from rainwater and scraped from his tooth?

    <p>Antoine van Leeuwenhoek</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the scientist who developed postulates to least specific microorganism to specific diseases?

    <p>Robert Koch</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did John Needham attempt to do?

    <p>Disprove spontaneous generation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who identified endospore in the air?

    <p>John Tyndall</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Oliver Wendell Holmes realize?

    <p>Mother who gave birth at home experience less infections than mother who gave birth at hospitals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who was the first to get to like handwashing and develop aseptic technique?

    <p>Joseph Lister</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis show?

    <p>How women became infected in the maternity ward due to doctors that also had been working in the autopsy room without washing their hand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who established rules for classification?

    <p>Carl Von Linne</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is binomial naming system?

    <p>Scientific name and Gina's name followed by species thing. Dina's name is always capitalized why species names are lowercase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which microscope is most commonly used?

    <p>Brightfield</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is dark field microscopy used for?

    <p>To see living cells that are hard to stain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of phase contrast microscopy?

    <p>To observe intercellular structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are electron microscopes used to view?

    <p>Cell organelles and viruses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does simple staining show?

    <p>Size arrangement and shape of bacterial but nothing about the bacteria itself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does differential staining show?

    <p>About the cell wall for a gram negative cell</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a daughter molecule?

    <p>Identical copy of the template strand/original strand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a template strand?

    <p>The original DNA strand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is newly synthesized DNA?

    <p>A copy of the original DNA but created in multiple pieces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of primase?

    <p>Makes a NEW RNA primer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does DNA polymerase III do?

    <p>Adds new/ MORE nucleotides to the growing DNA chain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of DNA ligase?

    <p>Fill in any resulting GAPS in the newly formed DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does helicase do?

    <p>Finalize the DOUBLE stranded DNA helix.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the central dogma of biology?

    <p>DNA is transcribing to mRNA mRNA translated into protein.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three stages of transcription?

    <p>Termination</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens in the initiation stage of transcription?

    <p>DNA double helix unwinds and the ptimer is added to start the process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens in the elongation stage of transcription?

    <p>DNA polymerase and nucleotides to the growing DNA strand continuously building the DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens in the termination stage of transcription?

    <p>Actors when the replication process is complete and any newly synthesized DNA strands are separated and finalized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the site of protein synthesis?

    <p>Mysome</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following are types of horizontal gene transfer?

    <p>Conjugation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is conjugation?

    <p>One bacterium transfer plasma, (circular DNA found in bacteria) through the pillie and sharing/sending it to another bacteria.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is transformation?

    <p>When a bacteria cell picks up DNA from the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is transduction?

    <p>When a virus infect bacteria also known as bacteriophage transfers DNA from one bacteria to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are jumping genes?

    <p>Genes that are capable to move around in cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a spontaneous mutation?

    <p>A random change of DNA typically due to DNA replication error.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are induced mutations?

    <p>Being exposed to known mutagens physically or chemically agents, that damaged DNA</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do ionizing radiation, like gamma rays and X rays, cause?

    <p>Break in DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does ultraviolet radiation, like sunlight, cause?

    <p>DNA to LINK together and clump.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a point mutation?

    <p>Effect only single base gene by adding subtracting or deleting a single base.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a lethal mutation?

    <p>Causes cell death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a neutral mutation?

    <p>Provide neither bad or good change and doesn't affect organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a missense mutation?

    <p>Causes a change in amino acid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a nonsense mutation?

    <p>Create STOP codon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a silent mutation?

    <p>Alters base but does not change amino acid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the functions of flagella?

    <p>For motion and movement helps, move deeper into tissue and spread.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the functions of fimbria?

    <p>Sticky fingers for attachments, helps stay longer in the host.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the functions of pili?

    <p>For conjugation/transfer of genetic material.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the functions of a slime layer?

    <p>Help make bacteria, cell sticky, and help them stick together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the functions of a capsule?

    <p>The layer used to protect the bacteria from attack of the immune system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the components of a gram-positive cell?

    <p>Cell membrane cytoplasmic, Thick peptidoglycan, Purple, Teichoic acid, Lipoteic acid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the components of a gram-negative cell?

    <p>Cell membrane cytoplasmic, Thin peptidohlycan, Pink, Outer membrane, Lipopolysaccharide/ LPs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an S layer?

    <p>Are crystal structural surface layer that are only found in archeal cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are bacteria and archae?

    <p>Prokaryotes with no nucleus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is eukarya?

    <p>A eukaryote with a nucleus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of environment do archaea thrive in?

    <p>Clean and very hard environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are protozoas?

    <p>Unicellular.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are fungi and algae?

    <p>May be unicellular or multicellular.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are helmiths?

    <p>Always multicellular.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are sporangiospores?

    <p>Covered by sporsngium, which burst opens and release spores all at once.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are conidiospores?

    <p>Individual spores that pinch off.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some important facts to know about viruses?

    <p>Viruses do not have a cell wall, but can be staying with metal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the steps of viral infection?

    <p>Assemble</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a persistent infection?

    <p>Occurs when a virus remains in the host, but does not immediately kill host cell.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a provirus?

    <p>Very can latent cytoplasm or DNA but once in incorporated into host DNA the virus is called provirus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are prions?

    <p>Can affect proteins that causes neurodegenerative disease in animals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are viroids?

    <p>Mainly affect plants that caused infection by infectious strands of naked RNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do prions and viroids have in common?

    <p>Non-cellular, infectious agents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is chronic latent ?

    <p>State when viruses become periodically reactivated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are helminths?

    <p>Helmets are either flatworms or round words. Helmets can be male or female or hermaphroditic, which is both females and male sex organs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Branches of Microbiology

    • Microbiology encompasses various branches, including medical, public health, industrial, agricultural, and environmental microbiology.
    • Medical microbiology studies microbes causing human and animal diseases.
    • Public health microbiology monitors and controls disease transmission within communities (e.g., using organizations like USPHS, CDC, and WHO).
    • Immunology studies the immune system's response to infection, including vaccination and blood testing.
    • Industrial microbiology focuses on using microbes in industries, e.g., food/water safety, biotechnology, and producing amino acids, beer, and vitamins.
    • Agricultural microbiology examines the relationships between microbes and plants/animals.
    • Environmental microbiology investigates the impact microbes have on different environments (e.g., water, soil, Earth).

    Historical Figures and Discoveries

    • Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation and developed pasteurization and a rabies vaccine.
    • Robert Hooke first observed microbes.
    • Antoine van Leeuwenhoek made early microscopes to study microbes.
    • Robert Koch developed postulates for identifying specific microorganisms causing specific diseases.
    • John Needham attempted to disprove spontaneous generation.
    • John Tyndall identified endospores in relation to disease transmission.
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes linked unsanitary practices to infection transmission.
    • Joseph Lister pioneered aseptic techniques in surgery.
    • Ignaz Semmelweis linked handwashing to reducing puerperal fever.
    • Carl von Linné established rules for biological classification.

    Microbiology Techniques

    • Simple stains: Used to visualize size, arrangement, and shape of bacteria without detailed characteristics.
    • Differential stains: (e.g., Gram stain) distinguish bacteria based on cell wall structure (gram-positive vs. gram-negative).
    • Microscopes: Different types of microscopes, like light microscopes (brightfield/dark field/phase contrast) and electron microscopes (transmission/scanning), are used to visualize microbes.

    Microbial Genetics and Replication

    • Horizontal gene transfer: Includes conjugation (bacterial exchange of genetic material), transformation (bacteria acquiring DNA from the environment), transduction (viruses transferring bacterial DNA), and jumping genes (genes capable of movement).
    • Mutations: Spontaneous and induced changes in DNA sequences; can be lethal, neutral, silent, missense, or nonsense mutations with varying effects on the organism.
    • Replication: The process by which DNA is copied. Enzymes like primase, DNA polymerase III, DNA ligase, and helicase are involved in the process of DNA replication.

    Viral Replication

    • Viruses don't have a cell structure; they replicate within host cells.
    • Viral reproduction involves stages like attachment, penetration, replication, assembly, and release.
    • Persistent infections occur when viruses remain in the host without killing the host cell. They can also form proviruses that later become active.

    Microbial Structure

    • Flagella, pili, fimbriae, slime layers, and capsules are structural components with different functions in bacteria (e.g., movement, attachment, protection from immune system).

    Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic

    • Bacteria and Archaea are prokaryotic (no nucleus) while Eukarya are eukaryotic (with a nucleus).

    Other Important Considerations

    • Archaea thrive in extreme environments (e.g., extremely high or low temperatures, high/low pH).
    • Protozoa are unicellular organisms.
    • Fungi and algae can be unicellular or multicellular.
    • Helminths are multicellular parasitic worms.
    • Conidiospores are individual spores.
    • Prions are infectious proteins, while viroids are infectious RNA.
    • Chronic latent viral infections can periodically reactivate.

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