Microbiology II

What is the size range of prokaryotes?

What is the size range of eukaryotic cells?

What are the advantages of being small?

What are the limitations to being small?

Describe briefly the process of gram staining

What are endospores?

Describe the process of sporulation

What names relate to the differing stages of endospore development within a vegetative cell?

What is the structure of an endospore? (5)

Function of fimbriae (2)

Function of pili (2)

How to visualise pili

What is polar flagellation?

What is tuft flagellation?

What is peritrichous flagellation?

Describe flagella

What is the motor?

Where does the energy for rotation come from?

MOA (3)

Describe the movement control of peritrichous cells

Methods of polar movement (2)

Describe gliding

Which pili facilitate this type of movement?

What is the life cycle of myxobacteria? (5)

MOA (6)