Microbiology and Evolving science vocab 1-4

A molecule that can kill or inhibit the growth of selected microorganisms

A chemical that kills Microbes

One of the three domains of life with a last common ancestor not shared with the members of bacteria and Eukarya

A prokaryotic members of the Archaea

Free of microbes

A device that uses pressureized steam to sterilize materials by raising the temperature above the boiling point of water at standard pressur

One of the three domains of life with a last common ancestor not shared with the members of Archaea or Eukarya

A prokaryotic organisim that is a member of the domain Bacteria

- A community of microbes growing on a solid surface

The serial passage of phatogentic organisms from an infected individual to and uninfected individual. Thus transmitting the disease

A theory stating that the products of oxidative metabolism store their energy in an electrochemical gradient that can drive processes such a

An organism that oxidizes inorganic compounds to yield high energy and reduce carbon dioxide

A visible colony of microbes on a plate, all derived from a single founding microbe

A technique to determine the order of bases in a DNA sample

A microscope that obtains high resolution and magnification by focusing electron beams on samples using magnetic lenses

An organism that lives as a symboint inside another organism

The use of selective growth media to allow only certain microbes to grow

One of the three domains of life, consisting of organisms with a last common ancestor not shared with members of Archaea or Bacteria. Cells

An organism whose cells contain a nucleus. All eukaryotes are members of the domain Eukarya.

Also called Fermentative metabolism. The production of ATP via substrate-level phosophorylation, using orgaic compounds as both electron don

The complete genetic content of an organism The sequence of all the nucleotides in a haploid set of chromosomes

The global interconversion of various inorganic and organic forms of elements

The theory that many diseases are caused by microbes

An organism’s cellular defense system against pathogens

Resistance to a specific disease/ the stimulation of an immune response by the deliberate inoculation with a weakened pathogen, in hopes of

Four criteria that should be met for a microbe to be designated the causative agent of an infectious disease

Chemoautotroph

The sum of genomes of a community of organisms

An organism or virus too small to be seen with the unaided human eye

Diverging from a common ancestor

The ability of some prokaryotes to reduce inorganic diatomic nitrogen gas(N2) to two molecules of ammonium ion( NH4 +)

Also called POUR PLATE. A Round dish with vertical walls covered by an inverted dish ofslightly larger diameter. The smaller dish can be fi

the metabolic ability to absorb and convert solar energy into chemical enegery for biosynthesis. CO2 fixation

Having multiple evolutionary origins

An organism whose cells lack a nucleus; bacteria and archaea

A culture containing only a single strain or species of microorganism. A large number of microorganisms all derived from the same individual

DNA that has been combined with other DNA to make novel DNA sequences

Restriction enzyme- A bacterial enzyme that cleaves double stranded DNA within a specific short sequence usually a palindrome

The theory much debated in the 19th century that under current Earth conditions, life can arise spontaneously from nonliving matter

The internalization of free DNA from the environment into bacterial cells

A machine that exposes samples to high centrifugal forces and can be used to separate subcellular compounds

Exposure of an individual to a weakened version of a microbe to provoke immunity and prevent development of disease upon rexposure

a non-cellular particle containing a genome that can replicate only inside a cell

A tube containing a stratified environment that causes specific microbes to grow at particular levels; a type of enrichment culture for the