BIOLOGY 2EE3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Industrial Microbiology, Genomics, Pasteurization

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Microscopic (too small to see with the naked eye) forms of life. Include bacteria, archaeons, fungi, protozoa and algae: they"re microscopic, they utilize biological molecules and cellular machinery (from their host) to replicate, can cause infectious diseases. Microbes are bacteria, archaeons, fungi, protozoa, algae and viruses. Microbes can be beneficial or harmful; i. e. escherichia coli bacterium is altered to produce lifesaving medical products. Specialized, metabolically passive cells that are produced by some bacterial species under highly stressful conditions. They can remain dormant for thousands of years until they find their favorable environment to germinate (grow) Thus, the definition of life is applied holistically; an organism may not exhibit all of these life traits at all times. Enzyme catalyzes majority of biochemical reactions in cell. Dna: informational (provides instructions for reproduction and assembly of new cells) Rna: involved with the productions of proteins; catalytic functions. Structural: make up cell membranes that protect the cell from outside environment.

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