Preliminary Exam 1 Review

Review may be updated if needed.

Exam 1 review-You are responsible for the information discussed in class and for any other information if specifically asked to review it for exam. Review Key terms in the back of each chapter as a study aid.
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1. Know the 4 most important men in micro history and what they did.

2. Know the 3 Domains and binomial nomenclature definition

3. Know Koch's postulates

4. Know difference between Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic

5. Know the environmental factors that influence microbial growth and what the organisms are called in reference to pH, temperature, Oxygen,

6. Know the 4 Macromolecules and their monomers.

7. Know the main bacterial structures, membrane, cell wall, appendages, capsules, slime layers, motility and chemotaxis, including runs and tumbles (what direction does a flagellar turn?) nucleus and plasmids.

8. Know Simple transport, Group Translocation and ABC and basic bacterial transport

9. Know oxidation/reduction

10. Know the basic steps of Bacterial metabolism, glycolysis, citric acid cycle, chemoosmosis and fermentation.

11. Know difference between catabolism and anabolism

12. Know what the proton gradient is and how it works.

13. Know how the electron carriers NAD/FAD and the carriers in the membrane work.

14. Know the stages of microbial growth and what they mean. Know the different environmental definitions concerning how microbes live pointed out in class i.e. temperature, pH, oxygen etc. Know about bacteriological media.

15. Know the enzymes involved in DNA replication and the basic steps in DNA replication. What is a leading and lagging strand etc. How does DNA replication occur?

16. Know the 4 nucleotide bases for DNA and RNA. What bond is responsible for the double helix?

17. Know the 3 stages to protein formation: Replication, transcription and translation. What are the three types of RNA. What are their function? What subunit makes a protein? How do replication, transcription and translation work together to make a protein? What are the steps in order?

18. Know codon vs anticodon

19. Know what an enzyme is and about feedback inhibition, isoenzymes and covalent modification

20. Know operon induction and attenuation

21.Know enzyme repression and induction