694 Answered Questions for the topic microbiology

Microbiology

04/13/19

What is medical microbiology?
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Microbiology Genetics Bacteriology

04/13/19

Why don't all bacteria have F-plasmids by now?
Some bacteria can undergo gene transfer by conjugation. Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer, meaning from one (unrelated) bacterium to another (in contrast to vertical gene transfer,... more
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04/12/19

When did human adults start drinking animal milk?
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Microbiology

04/12/19

What are the different branches of microbiology?
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Microbiology

04/12/19

How does amoeba obtain its food?
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04/10/19

Can a fungus become resistant to a chemical such as Potassium Permanganate?
A friend used potassium permanganate solution to treat tinea on the hands/feet but after some initial success, the tinea seems to be making a comeback. Could the fungus develop resistance to... more
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Microbiology

04/09/19

What is Salmonella?
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Microbiology

04/09/19

What are envloped and non-enveloped viruses?
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Microbiology

04/07/19

help with microbiology
3. Is Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gram-positive or Gram-negative? Research and describe the composition of yeast cell walls. How does the composition compare to the cell walls of Gram-positive or... more
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Microbiology

04/07/19

2. What information/structures were you able to glean from the methylene blue stain that you could not get from the Gram iodine stain?
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04/05/19

What is the advantage of using plant-derived antibacterials rather than bacteria-derived antibacterials?
So obviously we have a big problem with antibiotic resistance. Most of our antibiotics originate from bacteria themselves (or are synthetic variations on scaffolds which originate from bacteria). I... more
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Microbiology

04/04/19

What are Eukaryotic microorganisms?
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Microbiology

04/04/19

Are viruses the same as bacteria?
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Microbiology Genetics Bacteriology

04/04/19

Can bacteria release free DNA into their environment?
[Natural transformation AKA natural competence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_%28genetics%29#Natural_transformation) involves the uptake of DNA into a competent bacterium (for... more
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Microbiology Biology

04/03/19

What is a fructose derived carbon?

Here it is in context----> Although hepatocytes possess the enzymatic machineries to convert fructose-derived carbon into glucose, glycogen, lactate, lipid, carbon dioxide, and/or other... more
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Microbiology

04/02/19

What are different classes of antibiotics?
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04/02/19

True or False. Eukaryotic genomes may have a range of different types of repetitive sequences.
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04/01/19

Do beneficial viruses exist? If so, what examples are there?
Typically, people call viruses some kind of organic compounds that cannot reproduce autonomously and which **lower the fitness** of their hosts. Even the word "virus" means "venom" in Latin. But... more
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Microbiology Physiology Microbiome

04/01/19

How does the microbial environment in your gut initiate?
Clearly, a zygote does not harbor any microbes. As it develops, and the alimentary canal tissue is differentiated, I logically assume that there is still no microbial activity in the fetus's gut.... more
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Microbiology

03/29/19

What are pathogenic protists?
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Microbiology Immunology Virology

03/29/19

Why are there 2 copies of RNA in the HIV virion?
There are two copies of the RNA in the HIV virion. These are retroviruses. So, they can make cDNA from even just one copy using reverse transcriptase. What is the use of the other? Are both... more
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Microbiology

03/29/19

Do antibiotics kill all form of infection at once?
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03/28/19

True or False. Genes in prokaryotes tend to be grouped together in operons, with several genes under the control of a single regulatory region.
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03/28/19

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... more
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Microbiology

03/27/19

Can we live without microrganisms?

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