Exam 3
Science 2004c with Safranek at University of Central Florida
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Sepsis
Presence of infection
Asepsis
no presence of infetion
Antisepsis
process of trying to prevent infection
Steile technique
used in surgical field
Sterilization
totally killing off life forms on entire surface
in labs
in labs
Disinfection
eliminating certain microbes
Pasteurization
heating substances to certain temp to destroy pathogens, but not destroy product
disinfectant
chemical made to use against inanimate objects
antiseptic
made to use on tissue
sanitization
knock down all bacteria on surface to low levels that are considered safe in
in restaraunts
in restaraunts
microbistatic agent
wont allow growth of anything
bacteriostatic agent
wont allow bacteria growth
chemotherapy
any time chemical is used to fight disease
antimicrobial agent
man-made chemical or has effectiveness against microbes
antibiotic
natural (made by another microbe) that has effectiveness against microbes
semisynthetic antibiotics
modified antibiotic
penicilin= original
penicilin= original
conjugation
transfer of huge amts of DNA thru cell to cell contact
trasduction
viral injection
generalized transduction
non efficient; low frequency; one particle per cell
specialized transduction
efficient; hgih frequency; multiple particles expressed later from cell
transformation
DNA passed from 1 cell to a recipient
Electroporation
add current to blast holes into cell to allow DNA to enter
once current cut off, holes close
once current cut off, holes close
particle gun
mostly in euk cells
shoot DNA inside cell
shoot DNA inside cell
Base-pair substitution
changing a base pair
3 types: silent, missence, nonsense
3 types: silent, missence, nonsense
Silent mutation
codon doesn't alter anything else
mis-sense mutation
works, but not at same level
nonsence mutation
yields a stop codon --> stop protein formation
nonfunctional
nonfunctional
frameshift mutations
insert or remove base in gene
2 types: insetion/ deletion
viriods
small, circular naked RNA
plant pathogen, smallest known pathogen
plant pathogen, smallest known pathogen
prions
infectious extracellular proteins
yeast model
misfolding of normal protein caused by an abnormal protein and a molecular chaperone
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