BIOL 1202 : TEST 2 Study Guide
Document Summary
Microbes ii : test 2 ( september 17, 2014) Publish or perish- publish academic work to sustain or further one"s career. Damaged brain tissue caused by nonliving entity existing in a living host. Infects: plants, animals, food: first half of life on plant were only these two, bacteria, cell walls: semi-rigid, permeable, made of peptidoglycan (carbohydrate with amino acids attached). Bacteria and archaea were once grouped together because they looked alike. Similiarites of bacteria & archaea: prokaryotes, unicellular, cannot see with naked eye, don"t have any organelles or membrane bound nucleus, small size. Difference: bacteria & archaea: drop them into an extreme environment living will be archaea and bacteria will die, bacteria can be extreme environment loving : extremophlic, testing dna rrna sequences. Similarities to bacteria in many aspects: single celled, prokaryotes, small size. Differences in their: cell membrane lipid structure, cell wall composition, *no peptidoglycan in their cell walls, rrna subunit sequence.
