BIOL240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nitrocellulose, Useless Machine, Glutaraldehyde

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Metabolic diversity: result of 4 billion years of evolution, if there is a niche to exploit, microbes have adapted to exploit it, limited only by constraints of chemistry and physics. Cell metabolism: catabolism: releases, anabolism: consumes. Required by all cells to build macronutrients. C, n, p, s, o: micronutrients. Includes fe, cu, na, mg, mn, and others. Fundamentals of nutrition: 1) energy source. For oxidation, providing electrons for the etc: 2) carbon source, light (photosynthetic) Ii) chemical (organic or inorganic: organo: glucose, acetate, litho: h2, nh3, s0, no2. For cell maintenance and division: fixed organic (c-c) bonds, heterotroph. Energy from light captured by pigments anoxygenic. Carbon sources: carbon is a major requirement for all organisms. Autotrophs: primary producers , fix c directly from co2. Acquisition of nitrogen: use org. molecules produced by autotrophs, microbes must be able to incorporate nitrogen into a usable form, critical to making numerous macromolecules.

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