● Designing organisms in the industrial setting that can provide human products through genetic engineering or clean up environment waste through bioremediation is part of the sub discipline microbiology referred to as biotechnology
● A pathogen is the term used to refer to any disease causing microorganism
● The term ubiquitous is used to refer to the fact that microbes exists nearly everywhere on the earth
● A good hypothesis must be: able to be supported or rejected by experimentation ● A virion uses an infected host cells genetic and metabolic machinery for reproduction and assembly
● A virus is a microscopic agent, which is not cellular (acellular) and is composed of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.
● The germ theory of disease, first proposed in the 1800s stated that microorganisms could cause infection and illness.
● Archaea are prokaryotic singlecalled organisms of primitive origin that are capable of living in extreme or very harsh environment and are classified in their own domain of life. ● Nomenclature is the term applied to the method of assigning a scientific or specific name to an organism, whereas taxonomy involves the organization of these named organism ● From the organism Escherichia coli, what is the genus name? Escherichia
● Two physician who notice that infections can be transferred to another human.
Holmes and shmmelys
● A sterile environment is free of actively growing cells and microorganisms, but may contain viruses or domain life forms such as endospores. False
● A organelle is any small membranebound component found inside of an eukaryotic cell. ● Viruses are living organisms and are classified under the woese system as members of the domain Archaea. False
● A microbial pathogen is considered a parasite because it's derives benefits from it's
host