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Bacteria

Bacteria are a large domain of single-celled, prokaryote microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals.

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How does e coli with limited food supply respond?

The lac operon is switched on so the E. coli can use it as a food source.

What do bacteria possess to allow them to adhere to intestinal lining?

Both bacteria and the lining cells of the intestinal tract have to have mutual attractive proteins. These will allow the bacteria affect the other cells. Many do not and they have no bad effect. We do have billions of bacteria that are beneficial and not harmful. The digestive tract is their normal habitat.

What kind of cells are affected when you have gonorrhea?

what cells are affected when someone has gonorrhea

What diseases are caused by chlamydiae?

The phylum chlamydiae includes these species that cause human disease:

  • Chlamydia trachomatis can cause the STD known as chlamydia, as well as endemic trachoma.
  • Chlamydia pneumoniae causes some cases of pneumonia.
  • Chlamydia psittaci causes psittacosis.

What happen to the bacteria when food is cooked and when food is chilled?

Cooking kills bacteria but not the toxins the bacteria made while growing. Refrigeration does prevent most bacteria but not listeria which can grow in a refrigerator. Botulism is a toxin that does not go away with boiling or cooking.

Do bacteria siblings have variable traits?

yes because they get their traits form their parents.

Why can fruits and vegetables have salmonella?

They are not a food source on which the bacteria would normally grow. However, they can become contaminated (smeared with) with the bacteria during bad kitchen hygiene practices.

What are clusters of bacteria called?

Bacteria that multiply quickly and have no motility form colonies in a cluster.

However, so bacteria that have motility do not form clusters.

What are likely to increase in quantities when the body is under attack from bacteria?

White blood cells are involved in the immune response to identify and target invading bacteria, viruses, and other foreign organisms; they also recycle waste components, such as old red blood cells.

How does the body defends itself against the TB bacteria?

The immune system attacks the foreign antigen as if it were any bacterial infection. The B-cell lymphocytes mark the TB with antibodies that helps it remember the bacteria in the future. The macrophage then consumes the TB bacteria and keeps it latent, and the TB is unable to infect the body or be contagious. However, if the immune system fails to contain the TB, or it becomes weakened by age, malnutrition or another disease like AIDS, the TB bacteria can escape and infect the body, which is why people can get TB during old age or without a TB infected person coming in contact with them.

Discoveries of scientists in the roman empirers between 18th 19th and 20th century?

Some notable discoveries by scientists during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in the Roman Empire include advancements in engineering, such as the construction of aqueducts and roads, as well as developments in medicine and anatomy. Scientists in this period also made strides in understanding astronomy and developed early forms of scientific experimentation and observation. Additionally, advancements in architecture and the study of natural history flourished during this time.

Why does copper kill bacteria?

Copper is a highly conductive metal. The energy in cells tends to escape into copper, thus weakening its outer layers until they collapse. The oxygen and other chemicals spill onto the copper and copper ions enter the cell to cause more destruction.

However, copper does not rust. Instead, when oxygen hits its surface, copper creates a protective layer called patina. This chemical reaction prevents oxygen from seeping into the metal.

How contagious is carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE infection?

The infections do not become more or less contagious by resistance to antibiotics. Only thing becomes difficult is how to treat the disease. You kill a person and that person is dead. You kill an antibiotic and millions are dead.

How was a bacteria first used to copy gene?

Bacteria were first used to copy genes through a process called recombinant DNA technology. This involved inserting a gene of interest into a plasmid, which was then introduced into the bacterial cell. The bacteria could then replicate and transcribe the gene, allowing for the production of a specific protein encoded by the gene.

Why is the capsulated form of Streptococcus peneumoniae more virulent than the noncapulated form?

I believe all forms of strep pneumoniae are encapsulated. The polysaccharide capsule dictates the virulence factor and there are many different serotypes. Each type has a different prevalence and level of virulence, as well as different resistance to drugs.

If I had to answer your question (for homework?) I would say that encapsulation provides superior resistance to environmental threats, giving the organism a better chance of survival when not in optimal conditions.

What are 6 main structures found in a bacteria cells?

There are not 6 but 5 main structures found in bacterial cells. They are DNA, cell membrane, ribosomes, surface layer and the cell wall.

What happens to bacteria at 63 degrees?

Bacteria in food reaching a temperature of no more than 63c is very dangerous. Bacteria thrive at this temperature. Food is in what can be referred to as a 'high risk or danger zones'. Food should not be consumed and should be destroyed.

Does a softball have a positive or negative acceleration when it is thrown?

When a softball is thrown, it has a positive acceleration because its velocity is increasing with time as it moves through the air.

What two terms characterize bacteria?

There are many more than two things that characterize bacteria. Perhaps tiny size and lack of a nucleus would be just a beginning.

As newborns, we encounter our first microbes as we pass through the birth canal. Until that moment, we are 100 percent human.

Thereafter, we are, numerically speaking, 10 percent human, and 90 percent bacteria. Our microbiome contains at least 150 times more genes, collectively, than our human genome.

Think of it as a hulking instruction manual compared to a single page to-do list.

As we mature, we pick up more microbes from breast milk, food, water, animals, soil, and other people. Sometime in childhood, the bustling community of between 500 and 1,000 species stabilizes.

Some species are native only to humans, and may have been passed down within the family like heirlooms.

Others are generalists - maybe they've hopped aboard from pets, livestock, and other animal sources. Most of our microbes inhabit the colon, the final loop of intestine, where they help us break down fibers, harvest calories, and protect us from micro-marauders.

But they also do much, much more. Animals raised without microbes essentially lack a functioning immune system.

Entire repertoires of white blood cells remain dormant; their intestines don't develop the proper creases and crypts; their hearts are shrunken; genes in the brain that should be in the "off" position remain stuck "on."

Without their microbes, animals aren't really "normal."

What do we do for our microbes in return? Some scientists argue that mammals are really just mobile digestion chambers for bacteria.

After all, your stool is roughly half living bacteria by weight. Every day, food goes in one end and

microbes come out the other. The human gut is roughly 26 feet in length. Hammered flat, it would have a surface area of a tennis court.