BIOL 2900- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Mother nature and human relationship in emerging infections. Plague, smallpox, tularaemia (rabbits), viral haemorrhagic fevers (ex. Factors that affect emergence of diseases: microbial adaptation, drug resistance, human behaviour international travel, sexual activity, human susceptibility to infection, poverty, malnutrition, poor sanitation, changing ecosystems, global warming, climate and weather, war, polio in afghanistan and syria, bioterrorism. Structure of flagellum long structure that extends beyond surface of cell: my be arranged differently depending on species. Prokaryotic cell wall: allows bacteria to resist osmotic stress, provides structure and shape, assists some cells in attaching to other cells found in prokaryotes but not in eukaryotic animal cells, we can target cell wall bacteria with antibiotics. Gram-positive cell wall: many layers of peptidoglycan held together by teichoic acid lipoteichoid acid connects wall to plasma membrane. Peptidoglycan and bacterial shape rod-like (bacillus: spiral (spirillum, spherical (coccus, ex.
