BIOS 350- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 114 pages long!)
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Bios 350: microbiology notes exam 1 1/16/2016 7:37:00 pm. Two interconnecting themes of microbiology: understanding and applying the microbial world. Prokaryotes: includes: bacteria and archaea, closed circular chromosome (a few have linear). Eukaryotes: includes: algae, protozoa, fungi, protists, animals, and plants, linear dna. A gene is a segment of dna that encodes a protein or an rna molecule. A genome is the complete set of genes or genetic material in an organism. Microbial cells typically live in groups called microbial communities. All cells show some form of metabolism, when cells take up nutrients, transform them, and expel wastes: 2 types of metabolism, genetic, replication, transcription, translation, catalytic, energy, biosynthesis. Some microbial cells undergo differentiation (not all), some cells can form new cell structures such as a spore. Microbial cells exhibit intercellular communication, cells interact with each other by chemical messengers. Property of all cells: properties of some cells: metabolism 1) differentiation, growth 2) communication, evolution 3) genetic exchange.
