BIOL 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Crystal Violet, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Gram Staining

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Metagenomics- approach that allows us to identify and characterize bacteria and archaea without having to culture them. Three most common shapes of bacteria are spiral, spherical, and cylindrical, some archaea have square cells. Nucleoid- dna-containing central region of the cell, has no boundary membrane separating it from the cytoplasm, the chromosome. Prokaryotic cells have no cytoplasmic organelles similar to endoplasmic reticulum and golgi complex, most reactions are carried out by the plasma membrane, which means the macromolecules (e. g. protein) are very concentrated in the cytoplasm. Has a cytoskeleton that serves some similar function in eukaryotes. Plasmids- small circles of dna, contains genes of nonessential function, but beneficial functions, such as antibiotic resistance, can be transferred from one cell to another through horizontal gene transfer. Bacterial ribosomes are smaller than ribosomes in eukaryotes, but carry out protein synthesis by almost the same mechanisms. Archaeal ribosomes are same in size to bacterial, but differ in structure.

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