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Title: Microbiology and Immunization
Description: In these notes you will find labeled diagrams of each try of microorganism. You can also find definitions and lots of information about each microorganism. There is also some question and answer parts as well as come information about immunization.
Description: In these notes you will find labeled diagrams of each try of microorganism. You can also find definitions and lots of information about each microorganism. There is also some question and answer parts as well as come information about immunization.
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Microbiology-Study Notes
Microbiology defined - The study of microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are organisms
that are invisible to the naked eye
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We will
also study some other smaller groups such as prions and viroids
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Unicellular
size: 1/1000 the volume of a typical eukaryotic cell
shapes: bacillus (rod), coccus (spherical), spirillum
(spiral), vibrio (curved rod)
-Energy:
photosynthetic autotrophs - use energy from the
sun to produce their own carbohydrates for energy
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sulfur or iron)
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carbohydrates or sugars) for
energy
Diagram of an Algae cell
Algae (singular - alga):
eukaryotic
unicellular or multicellular
size: some microscopic, some macroscopic (ex
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-Energy:
Heterotrophs
Protozoa ("first animals"):
eukaryotic
unicellular
motile or nonmotile
disease causing – 2 examples: malaria &
giardiasis (one of the “don’t drink the water
diseases”)
Diagram of Protozoa
-Energy:
Heterotrophs
Viruses - (study of viruses – virology):
Acellular, so not considered prokaryotic or eukaryotic; obligate intracellular parasites; when
they are outside of a host cell, there is no evidence that these guys are alive
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Size - 1/10 to 1/1000 the size of an ordinary bacterial cell
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Immunity - stimulating the body's own ability to combat infection; from
ancient times it was a recognized fact that people who suffered from certain
diseases never got them again; infection could produce immunity
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Immunization defined: produce immunity by providing exposure to altered organisms that do not
cause disease
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Jenner & Smallpox - observed that dairymaids that contracted a mild infection of cowpox seemed
to be immune to smallpox
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c
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) Pasteur's discovery? attenuated bacteria can produce immunity
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) What vaccines did Pasteur develop? anthrax, rabies
Title: Microbiology and Immunization
Description: In these notes you will find labeled diagrams of each try of microorganism. You can also find definitions and lots of information about each microorganism. There is also some question and answer parts as well as come information about immunization.
Description: In these notes you will find labeled diagrams of each try of microorganism. You can also find definitions and lots of information about each microorganism. There is also some question and answer parts as well as come information about immunization.