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General and Medical Microbiology - Coggle Diagram
General and Medical Microbiology
Prokaryotes
What are they?
Unicellular organisms
Lack membrane bound organelles
DNA instead found in 'nucleoid' region in bundles
Components
Nucleoid
Ribosomes
Flagella
Pili
Fimbriae
Microscopic Morphology
Shapes
Rod like = Bacilli
Spherical = Cocci
Spiral
Other Bacterrial strucutres
Capsule
Is a virulence factor
Flagella
Identification/Differentiation Tests
Gram Stain
Principle
Positive
Negative
Process
Basic Micro Concepts
Bacterial Growth
Factors that effect growth
Process : Binary Fission
Importance of Understanding
Growing is first step in identification, growing requirements needs to be understood
Environmental Conditions
Oxygen
Aerobes
Oblique Aerobes
Anerobes
Faculative Aerobes
Genetics
Mutations
Types
Point Mutation
Substitution mutation
Effect they have
Silent
Missence
Conservative
missence mutation
Non-conservitive
missense mutation
Nonsense
Frame Shift Mutation
Genetic Recomination/ Exchange
Transformation
Competence of Bacteria
DNA may be integrated into chromosomal DNA or exist as plasmid
Conjugation