MICRB265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Safranin, Crystal Violet, Horizontal Gene Transfer
4 Nov 2017
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Chapter 1 (i-iv) and chapter 19 (585-587): exploring the microbial world. Definitions material and waste products. uncoupled from reproduction. etc. ) Microbial culture collection of cells grown in or on a nutrient medium. Medium ( media) liquid/solid nutrient mixture that contains nutrients for an organism to grow. Growth increase in cell number as a result of cell division. Colony visible population of cells that arise from a single cell. Metabolism taking up nutrients from environments and transforming them into new cell. Transcription process where information on dna is copied to rna molecule. Translation rna is synthesized unto a protein. Motility movement of cells by self-propulsion. Intercellular communication interactions between cells using chemical signals. Horizontal gene transfer exchange of genes with neighbouring cells through a process. Extremophiles microorganisms that can live in extreme environments (high temperature, ph, Microbial ecology study of microorganisms in their natural environments. Resolution ability to distinguish two adjacent objects as distinct and separate.
