MICB 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tetrapeptide, Glycan, Gram-Negative Bacteria

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This means that the [solute] of their cytoplasm is greater than the. Under these conditions, water from the environment would spontaneously flow across the membrane and into the cytoplasm. Because the phospholipids of the membranes are not covalently bonded together, the bacterial cells can swell and burst due to the osmotic flow of water. The membranes of bacteria are stabilized by cell walls. The cell wall structure allows bacteria to be divided into two groups: gram-positive and gram-negative. Gram-negative refer to the ability of the cell walls to retain a particular stain. Peptidoglycan (pg) is a huge mesh-like structure made of glycan chains and a tetrapeptide. The glycan chains are made of sugars that are synthesized by the bacteria. Because of the covalent bonds that the link the sugars of the glycan chains and the covalent bonds of the cross-linking tetrapeptides, the pg provides mechanical strength to the bacterial membrane to protect it from osmotic lysis.

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26.The best microscopy technique for observing different subcellular structures on the surface of bacteria is

(A) SEM (B) TEM

(E) fluorescence microscopy

27.Which type of microscopy exploits differences in the refractive index of the specimen, where light is retarded by one-quarter of a wavelength when it passes through a bacterial cell?

(A) SEM (B) TEM

(E) fluorescence microscopy

28.Which type of microscopy should be used to examine bacterial cells that have been Gram stained?

(A) TEM (B) fluorescence microscopy

(E) bright-field microscopy

29.Which of the following is most abundant in a prokaryotic cell (in dry weight)?

(A) RNA (B) DNA

(E) Lipid

30.Which of the following techniques uses the Svedberg unit (S)?

(A) electron microscopy (B) ultracentrifugation

(E) sonication

31.Which of the following is NOT a function performed by the cell membrane or its components?

(A) production of proteins (B) detection of environmental signals

(E) B and D

32.Which of the following statement is true?

(A) Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are found in the cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria.

(B) Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are found in the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria.

(D) Teichoic acids are found in the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria.

(E) Cholesterol is found in the cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria.

33.Which of the following is found in Archaeabut not in Bacteria?

(A) Hopanoids (B) Terpenoids

(E) Peptidoglycan

34.The glycan chain of archaeal cell wall is made of __________ and __________, while the glycan chain of bacterial cell wall is made of __________ and __________.

(A) peptidoglycan and murein, pseudopeptidoglycan and murein

(B) N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid,

N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid

N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid

(D) N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid,

N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid

(E) N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid,

N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid

35.The sacculus of bacteria is composed primarily of

(A) phospholipids (B) peptidoglycans

(E) nucleic acids

36.Lysozyme attacks the following linkage in the bacterial cell wall:

(A) Î²(1,4)-glycosidic bonds

(B) Î²(1,3)-glycosidic bonds

(D) Peptide cross-links between glycan chains

(E) Peptide bonds between L-alanine and D-glutamic acid

1.This week, you will be conducting Gram stains of bacteria.Which of the following statements are true? (Mark all thatapply)

		Gram-negative bacteria do not stain purple because they do nottake-up crystal violet or iodine
		The peptidoglycan in the walls of Gram-positive bacteria bindsto the crystal violet stain more easily than walls of Gram-negativebacteria do
		Gram-positive bacteria have cell walls with a thickerpeptidoglycan layer than walls of Gram-negative bacteria
		Gram-negative bacteria do not stain purple, because their cellwall structure allows purple-colored iodine-dye complexes to washout of the cells more easily than the cell wall structure ofGram-positive bacteria does
		Gram-negative bacteria have an outer membrane (outside thepeptidoglycan layer in their wall) that Gram-positive bacterialack

What evidence is used to inform our understanding ofrelationships among species? (mark all that apply)

		Biochemical similarities between existing species
		Fossils
		Morphological similarities between existing species (presence ofhair, backbones, etc.)
		DNA sequences and molecular clocks

For each of the groups of organisms below, indicate whether theybelong in (A.) Archaea, (B.) Bacteria, or (C.) Eukarya

- A. B. C.	Methanogens (prokaryotes that produce methane)
- A. B. C.	Gram-positive bacteria
- A. B. C.	Fungi
- A. B. C.	Animals
- A. B. C.	Cyanobacteria
- A. B. C.	Green algae
- A. B. C.	Red algae
- A. B. C.	Amoebas
- A. B. C.	Thermophiles (prokaryotes of hydrothermal vents)
- A. B. C.	Plants
- A. B. C.	Free-living relatives of mitochondria
- A. B. C.	Single-celled organisms with a circular strand of DNA, without anuclear envelope and without peptidoglycan in their cell walls

Select all true statements about the relative diversity ofdifferent groups of organisms from among the followingstatements:

		There are more species of plants on Earth than species ofmolluscs
		There are more plant species on Earth than mammal species
		There are more species of plants on Earth than species offungi
		There are more species of fungi on Earth than mammal species
		There are more species of plants on Earth than species ofarthropods
		There are more flatworm species on Earth than mammal species

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QUESTION 2

Which of the following structures discussed in class is NOT found on all bacteria?
Flagella
Capsid
Fimbria
Plasma membrane

QUESTION 3
You are presented with a strain of bacteria that is resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. What steps would you take to confirm that you have a resistant bacterium?
Perform a Gram stain to determine pink stained Gram-positive bacteria.
Perform a Gram stain to determine purple stained Gram-positive bacteria.
Perform a Gram stain to determine pink stained Gram-negative bacteria.
Perform a Gram stain to determine purple stained Gram-negative bacteria.

QUESTION 4
With respect to bacterial growth into a fresh culture tube containing nutrient broth, at which phase do organisms undergo binary fission the most rapidly?
Lag phase
Stationary
Exponential
death

QUESTION 5
How would antibiotic resistance be passed from one bacterium to another bacterium?
Through the flagella via a plasmid.
Through the sex pilus via chromosomal DNA.
Through the sex pilus via a plasmid.
Through the flagella via chromosomal DNA.

QUESTION 6
When an F plasmid integrates into the host chromosome, the strain is referred to as

Hfr.
F'.
F-.
F+.

QUESTION 7
If you remove the peptidoglycan layer from a Gram-positive cell, it would still stain purple with a Gram stain (T/F).
True
False

QUESTION 8
During infection with a bacteriophage, bacterial DNA is packaged into a capsid and will:

be integrated into the genome of a new bacterium upon ligation.
be integrated into the genome of a new virion upon recombination.
be integrated into the genome of a new bacterium upon recombination.
be integrated into the genome of a new virion upon liagation.

QUESTION 9
Which of the following statements best describes most bacteria?
They are generally harmful.
They are limited to living in a few habitats.
They are very common in the environment.
They are responsible for the âcommon cold.â

QUESTION 10
Prokaryotes lack some parts found in eukaryotic cells, including which item?
a nuclear membrane
DNA
one or more chromosomes
a plasma membrane
all of the above

QUESTION 11
With respect to gram negative bacteria, what is the order of the bacterial cell structure from outside to inside?
Thin peptidoglycan layer, plasma membrane

thick peptidoglycan layer, plasma membrane

outer membrane, thick peptidoglycan layer, plasma membrane

outer membrane, thin peptidoglycan layer, plasma membrane

QUESTION 12
In transformation, a piece of DNA from a dead host can be taken up by living host

True
False

MICB 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tetrapeptide, Glycan, Gram-Negative Bacteria

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