Microbiology Demystified

sis. There are two kinds of endocytosis. These are phagocytosis and pinocytosis. Phagocytosis engulfs solid substances (large mo ...

sedimentation rate are unaffected by the antibiotic. This enables the antibiotic to kill bacterium and not the body that is infe ...

surface and also aid in movement of the cell. Flagella and cilia are comprised of axoneme microtubules. An axoneme microtubuleis ...

hydrate called glycocalyxon its surface. Glycocalyx is made up of covalently bonded lipids and proteins in order to form glycoli ...

which is called endocytosis (a type of active transport). There are two types of endocytosis. These are phagocytosis (eat) and p ...

There are two kinds of endoplasmic reticula. Rough endoplasmic reticulum.Covered by ribosomes, which are the sites for synthesi ...

pigment is stored in membranous sacs called thylakoidsthat are arranged in stacks called grana. CENTRIOLE Acentrioleis a pair of ...

What is the function of the nonpolar part of the cytoplasmic membrane? (a) The cytoplasmic membrane does not have a nonpolar pa ...

(c) An active transport process in which molecules or ions of a sub- stance move from a region of higher concentration to a regi ...

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5 CHAPTER 87 The Chemical Metabolism Those of us who need to shed a few pounds tend to blame our weight gain on our slow metabol ...

the energy from ATP (adenosine triphosphate), these precursor metabolites are used to construct or build larger molecules. ATP i ...

Two important electron carrier molecules that are used in cell metabolism are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) flavine ...

Isomerases: Enzymes in the isomerasegroup rearrange atoms within the substrate rather than add or subtract anything from the re ...

temperature would be so high that the cell would die before the activation energy threshold could be reached. Enzymes are needed ...

ture reaches the point that radically changes the shape of the active site, the bond between the active site and the substrate i ...

Embden-Meyerhof Pathway The Embden-Meyerhof pathway (Fig. 5-1) is used by some bacteria to catabo- lize glucose topyruvic acid. ...

Pyruvic Acid Before entering the Krebs cycle, the pyruvic acid produced from the breakdown of glucose must be further processed ...

cycle, also known as the citric acid cycle and the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, is named for Sir Hans Krebs, a biochemist, wh ...

otic cells or in the plasma membrane in prokaryotic cells. In the mitochondria this system is set up into four complexes of carr ...