BIOL 1202 Chapter : Microbes (Pollock 1202)
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Microbes: too small to be seen clearly without a microscope. =the period" at end of sentence is about 1000um. Can be either single stranded or double stranded dna or rna: 2. Capsid=protein coat which surrounds and protects genome: 3. The damage was caused by mad cow or creutzfeldt-jakob disease (in humans). This is a cell that is infected with the disease. The red are the prions that cause the disease. Could get this disease by a consumption of cerebral fluids. Hundreds of different proteins are attached to the prions which then the protein won"t be able to do its function causing the nervous system to slowly breakdown. Prions don"t allow the proteins to fold in their first secondary tertiary and sometimes quaternary folding. **side-note**cwd (cronic wasting disease)-deer, (similar to mad cow disease) Gram negative bacteria (3 layers: endospore- protective resting structures, bacteria surrounded by durable cell wall.
