BIO 1140 Study Guide - Antimicrobial Resistance, Microorganism, Plasmid
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Anaerobic: relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen. Antibiotic resistance: the acquisition of unresponsiveness to a specific antibiotic by a microorganism that was previously adversely affected by the drug. Such resistance generally results from a mutation or the acquisition of r plasmids (q. v. ) by the microorganism. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, aerobic bacteria of the genus bacillus that often occur in chains and include b. anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax: any of various bacteria, especially a rod-shaped bacterium. Cellulose: a carbohydrate consisting of linked glucose units. It is an important constituent of plant cell walls. Cellulose cannot be digested by humans and is a component of dietary fibre (roughage). the defining membrane-bound structure that sets eukaryotic cells apart from prokaryotic cells is the nucleus, or nuclear envelope, within which the genetic material is carried. [1][2][3] the presence of a nucleus gives eukaryotes their name, which comes from the greek (eu, good) and (karyon, nut or.
