[MICI 2100] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (167 pages long!)

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Have both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cellular functions: no nucleus, histones present, no introns and a single chromosome, swim using distinct structures, can live above 120 . Flagella are composed of: the basal body: located in the cell envelope, the hook/rod: anchored to cell envelope but external to cell, the filament: completely extracellular, most abundant protein content of the entire structure. Like what: protein translation machinery (ribosomes) because they are structurally different to eukaryotic protein translation machinery, cell walls, outer membranes, dna replication machinery, flagella. Classes of antibacterial compounds: methicillins: amoxicillin, ampicillin, carbenicillin, protein synthesis inhibitors; chloramphenicol, erythromycin, kanamycin, tetracycline, streptomycin, dna inhibiting; ciprofloxacin, flouoroquinolones, peptide; bacitracin, vancomycin. Spread of resistance genes via: competence: the ability to take up dna from the environment, integrate it and assimilate it in the bacterial cell, conjugation: the horizontal transfer of plasmids by cell-to-cell contact.

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