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JEOPARDY StructureNutritionDiversityDisease- related Bacterial Genetics $10 $20 $30 $40 $50
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Answer A dense region within the bacterial cell where the chromosome is found
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Question What is the nucleoid region?
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Answer In the true bacteria this is an essential component of the cell wall
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Question What is peptidoglycan?
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Answer An antibiotic that interferes with the crosslinking of the bacterial cell wall
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Question What is penicillin?
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Answer A gelatinous substance that provides cells with additional protection from host immune responses
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Question What is the capsule?
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Answer These are resistant cells that are formed by some bacteria and are capable of surviving harsh adverse condition.
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Question What are Endospores?
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Answer Bacteria that break down organic material and have a role in digesting sewage and oil
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Question What are decomposers?
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Double JE0PARDY How much do you wish to wager?
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Double JEOPARDY Answer A class of mutants that requires the presence of specific organic nutrients for their growth
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Double JEOPARDY Question What are auxotrophs?
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Answer A term used to describe materials that are inert to decomposition by microorganisms
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Question What is non-biodegradable?
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Answer The process that takes nitrogen gas (N2) and assimilates it into organic material
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Question What is nitrogen fixation?
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Answer These are organisms that will use oxygen but can use fermentation in its absence
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Question What are facultative anaerobes?
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Answer Domain that contains all of the “extremophiles”
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Question What are the Archaea?
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Answer Molecule used as the gold standard for the identification and classification of all living organisms
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Question What is SSU*-rRNA? ssu-rRNA - small subunit ribosomal RNA. In prokaryotes this is the 16s RNA
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Answer Free living symbionts that are found in the roots of leguminous plants
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Question What is Rhizobium?
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Answer Intracellular parasites that is the most common cause of blindness in the world and also causes nongonococcal urethritis, the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States
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Question What is Chlamydia?
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Answer A group of prokaryotes that might have undergone endo-symbiotic events leading to the chloroplasts
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Question What are the cyanobacteria ?
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Answer A soluble protein excreted by a microorganism that can cause damage to the host by destroying cells or disrupting normal cellular metabolism
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Question What is an exotoxin?
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Answer Four criteria which are used to connect a pathogen with a specific disease
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Question What are Koch’s postulates?
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Answer A disease that is only caused by a certain bacteria when it is carrying a bacteriophage
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Question What is Diptheria?
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Answer The organism that causes anthrax
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Question What is Bacillus anthracis?
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Answer Organisms usually associated with individuals which become pathogens when the host’s immune system fails
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Question What are opportunists?
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Answer Term that refers to the uptake of naked DNA
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Question What is transformation?
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Answer The mechanism by which foreign DNA integrates into or exchanges parts with a host chromosome
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Question What is homologous recombination?
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Answer A viral infection that results in the production of a prophage
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Question What is a lysogen?
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Answer The transfer of genetic material between bacteria through direct cell-to- cell contact
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Question What is conjugation?
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Answer Term used to describe a plasmid or phage that integrates into the host chromosome
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Question What is an Episome?
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