684 Answered Questions for the topic microbiology
Microbiology
05/01/19
How can a virus infect another virus?
04/29/19
How heavy are all foreign microorganisms in and on the human body?
I define "foreign microorganism" as a microorganism which is not produced
by the human body (not antibodies or leukocytes) including bacteria, viruses, fungi, biofilm aggregates or small lifeforms...
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04/29/19
Does rainwater contain many fewer micro-organisms than river water?
From watching many documentaries on micro-organisms, I can tell water typically contains quite a lot of them.
But what about rainwater? (before it hits the ground). I know nothing about any...
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Microbiology Cell Biology
04/29/19
What is the meaning of multicellularity?
I can't understand what multicellularity is. Wikipedia states that any organism having many cells is multicellular. By this definition bacteria can also be multicellular. For example, cyanobacteria...
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Microbiology
04/29/19
Can bacteria be stored in food?
Microbiology Human Biology
04/28/19
How much weight/volume do microbes occupy within the human body?
Microorganisms constitute the bulk of all the biomass on Earth. I weighed myself yesterday, and wondered how much less I would weigh if I were completely free of bacteria and microbes, inside and...
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Microbiology
04/28/19
Why do we consider viruses as microbes and not microrganisms?
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Microbiology
04/28/19
Why is there so many microbes in soil vs air or water?
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04/28/19
Is abiogenesis possible today?
Life on earth started about 3.5 billion years ago. I would assume abiogenesis happened because the conditions were right. Would the current earth conditions allow for new abiogenesis and completely...
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Microbiology
04/27/19
What is the difference between bacteria and yeast?
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Biology Gene Expression Word Problem
What is the amino acid sequence that would be produced given the following sequence of RNA nucleotides in a strand of mRNA?:5’ A C U G G U G C U 3’
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Genetics word problem
In four-o’ clock plants, the allele for red flower color has an effect that is incompletely dominant over the effect of the white color allele. If a cross between two plants produced 18 red, 32...
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Microbiology
04/25/19
Is bacteria considered alive?
Write this DNA sequence in 5' to 3' direction
Write DNA nucleotides IN THE 5' TO 3' DIRECTION that would bind to the following segment of DNA:5' A T T G A C A C C G 3'
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Microbiology Bacteriology
04/24/19
Hot water and bacteria?
I know that it is common to say, "use hot water when washing your hands" or when you've got a cut, "wash your hands with warm water," etc. I was wondering, why is this the case? Since bacteria grow...
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04/23/19
If a human takes antibiotics are all bacteria in the body killed?
From my basic understanding, antibiotics kill living things, bacteria for example.
Do the antibiotics consumed by a human-being distinguish between what they kill? Or do they just kill every...
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