Download Different Terminologies of Microbiology | BIOL 2230 and more Study notes Microbiology in PDF only on Docsity! BIOL 2230 REEDER TERMINOLOGY #1 1. Microbiology - 2. Branches of microbiology (bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology) - 3. micrometer, nanometer, Angstrom - 4. Koch's postulates (4) - 5. 6 types of microscopes, distinguishing features and their various uses - 6. Resolution or resolving power โ 7. Significance of staining bacteria - 8. Smear preparation (heat fixing) - 9. basic vs. acid dyes (include chromophore) - 10. Differential Stain (include examples of & importance) โ 11. Gram positive vs. Gram negative bacteria (staining characteristics, antibiotic and dye susceptibility, structural differences, and possible explanations for their staining differences) - 12. Acid-Fast stain (describe procedure, characteristics, and significance) - 27. Characterize Kingdom Protista - 28. Characterize Kingdom Fungi โ 29. Distinguish in detail prokaryotic forms from eucaryotic forms - 30. Plasmids - 31. 3 basic bacterial morphological shapes, characteristics, and examples - 32. pleomorphic โ 33. bacterial flagella (and differences from eucaryotic flagella) - 34. chemotaxis - 35. fimbriae/pili - 36. envelope - 37. capsule, slime layer, glycocalyx โ 38. Structure and significance of the bacterial cell wall (include mucopeptides or peptidoglycan and muramic acid and their significance) โ 39. Differentiate between Gram positive walls and Gram negative (include chemical differences, antigenic features, presence of endotoxin) - 40. periplasm - 51. Describe and draw each of the following common functional groups that comprise organic monomers - a. carboxyl - b. phosphate - c. hydroxyl - d. methyl - e. keto - f. amino - g. sulfhydryl โ 52. Condensation reaction with specific example - 53. hydrolytic reaction with specific example - 54. proteins: (monomers, bonding type, structural groups, levels of structure and function) - 55. polysaccharides (monomers, bonding type, characteristic chemical groups, and functions) - 56. lipids (monomers, bonding type, characteristic chemical groups and functions) - 57. polar vs. nonpolar characteristics - 58. Nucleic Acids (monomers, plus distinguish DNA from RNA in your discussion) -
