BIOC17H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Francesco Redi, Industrial Microbiology, Spontaneous Generation
5 Oct 2017
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Facilitates metabolism faster replication: is smaller the better, mycoplasma are small so they should replicate the fastest. But, this is not the case because it has only 500 genes. It has an incomplete kreb"s cycle: nanoarchaeum equitans: smallest known living organism and smallest microbial genome sequenced to date. This results in limited biosynthetic and catabolic capacity: only known archaean parasite, e. fishelsoni: can see with our eyes. It will probably be outgrown by other microbes. So, it has specific environments, such as some fish, where it can survive). It increases its sa/volume ratio by having lot of foldings: t. namibiensis: cytoplasma has huge vacuole in middle with no3. This increases sa even though size of cytoplasm is small: how to maximize surface while still keeping a small volume, n. winogradskyi: its photosynthetic. Sa/v is higher than microbes: robert hooke: utilized the word cell for the first time to describe plant cells from cork.
