697 Answered Questions for the topic microbiology
05/06/19
Why is the microbial ecosystem of the gut so susceptible to disruption by pathogens?
From all accounts, it seems as if the Escherichia, Enterobacter, etc. that live and thrive in the human gut are pretty well entrenched. I know that these microbial populations are often analyzed as...
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05/05/19
True or False. Prokaryotic genes are often regulated in response to external signals such as nutrient availability.
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Write Complementary Sequence for DNA strand
I have the answer to this problem; however, I cannot seem to figure out why or how to solve it:What is the 5'-3' sequence of the complimentary DNA strand for the following image? The primer...
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Microbiology Microbes
05/02/19
This is for a microbes exam.
Where can bacteria be found?
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05/01/19
The flow of genetic information is from DNA to RNA to protein, via the processes of transcription (TC) and translation (TL). This concept is known as the Central Dogma of molecular biology.
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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?
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