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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
There are only two basic types of cells, primitive prokaryotes and the more complex eukaryotes. Here are the main features that distinguish these cell types.
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Difference between Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cell
What specifically are the main differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? Here is a side by side comparison to simplify mastering the basics of cell structure.
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Similarities of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
What specifically are the similarities between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? Here is a side by side comparison to simplify mastery of the basics of cell structure.
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Prokaryotic Microbe Cell Biology
Prokaryotes are evolutionarily ancient, for billions of years the only form of life. Here's a summary of the basic "parts & pieces" of these primitive cells.
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External Structures of Prokaryotic Cells
Prokaryotic cells can have a variety of surface appendages - flagellum, fimbria or pilus - that enable them to move, adhere to surfaces and even infect host cells.
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Learning about Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
Many science students are looking for short-cuts to make learning cell biology effortless. There are none, but there are strategies to help compare the two cell types.
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What Is A Cell? Basic Overview Of An Animal Cell
All organisms are made up of cells. There are single-celled and multi-celled organisms. Here is a brief overview of what a cell consists of, and some of its functions.
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Basic Cell Biology for Understanding Genetics
Genetics is concerned with how traits are passed on through generations. This information, genetic material, is stored inside cells, working units that make up organisms.
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Does Mouthwash Kill Bacteria? Data Collection
In this simple classroom experiment students take oral swab samples to see if the use of mouthwash reduces the number and variety of oral bacteria found in the mouth.
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Glycocalyx Bacterial Surface Coating
Some bacteria have an additional layer outside of the cell wall called the glycocalyx. This coating of macromolecules protects the cell and helps it adhere to surfaces.
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Cell Structure
A look at the structural components of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and the differences between the two types of cell.
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Bacteria Horizontal Gene Transfer
Although bacterial reproduction results in the generation of clones, prokaryotes can undergo genetic recombination through transformation, transduction, and conjugation.
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Bacterial Cell Wall Structure
The amount and location of peptidoglycan in the prokaryotic cell wall is what determines whether a bacterium is Gram-positive or Gram-negative.
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Biological Virus Lytic Cycle Replication
Bacteriophages are a special type of virus that exclusively infects bacterial cells. Here's how they recognize, take over and ultimately kill their host bacteria.
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Cells & Viral Pathogenic Microbes
All living things are composed of one or more cells. Unlike cells, viruses, viroids and prions are acellular, nonliving parasites that require a living host to reproduce.
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Comparison of Cells, Viruses, Viroids & Prions
Infectious disease can result of cellular organisms, such as bacteria (prokaryotes), from eukaryotes (cells like ours) or from nonliving infectious agents.
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Fun Cell Biology Education
Studying cell biology doesn't have to suck. Here's a fun and fascinating summary of how the cells of your body work to keep you alive and healthy.
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Gram Negative ( Gram- ) Bacteria
Most bacteria have one of these two types of cell walls. The differential Gram stain uses two dyes to distinguish between bacteria based on cell wall structure.
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Gram Positive ( Gram+ ) Bacteria
Most bacteria have one of these two types of cell walls. The differential Gram stain uses two dyes to distinguish between bacteria based on cell wall structure.
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Lysogenic Replication of Bacteriophage Viruses
Bacteriophages reproduce by commandeering a bacterium and ultimately killing it. But sometimes, through lysogeny, the phage doesn't immediately take over its host.
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MOA of Sulfonamide Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How do sulfonamides impact bacteria without hurting our cells?
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Species Distinction and Prokaryotes
The distinction between species of sexually reproducing organisms is quite clear, but how are the lines drawn for organisms, like bacteria, that reproduce as clones?
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How Do Antibiotics Work to Kill Bacteria?
Antibiotics are drugs used to fight bacterial infections. How do these medications work to kill bacteria without harming human cells?
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Structural Differences of Bacteria and Viruses
Bacteria and viruses are both tiny infectious agents with the ability to cause disease. So it is not surprising that these microbes are sometimes mistaken as the same.
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What Is a Bacteriophage Virus?
This series of articles explores how viruses that exclusively infect bacterial cells recognize the hosts they parasitize and reproduce once the bacterium is infected.
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MOA of Quinolone Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How do quinolones destroy bacteria without hurting our cells?
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MOA of Tetracycline Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How do tetracyclines destroy bacteria without hurting our cells?
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Nucleic Acid DNA & RNA Synthesis
What are deoxyribonucleic and ribonucleic acid made of, and how are these big molecules of genetic information built? This article explains the basics.
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The Gaian Democracy
The Gaian Democracy presents a bottom-up strategy toward governmental organizational theory.
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Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
Some living things reproduce by cloning; producing offspring that are genetically identical to the parent. Organisms that procreate sexually create genetic novelty.
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Does Mouthwash Kill Bacteria? Data Analysis
After completing a classroom experiment in which students take oral samples to see if mouthwash reduces the number and variety of bacteria, this is how data are examined.
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Early History of Human Immunology
Some of the early discoveries that led to today's vaccines happened almost by chance. The astute observations of Jenner and Pasteur were the foundation of immunology.
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Five Kingdoms of Life
Scientific classification sorts all life forms on Earth into five kingdoms: monera, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. Together they form the tree of life.
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Gram Negative Bacterial Stain
Gram- bacteria stain pink due to the location of cell wall peptidoglycan and an external LPS membrane. Here's how Gram staining identifies Gram negative organisms.
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Gram Positive Bacterial Stain
Gram + bacteria stain purple due to the chemistry and structure of their peptidoglycan cell wall. Here's how Gram staining identifies Gram-positive organisms.
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Introduction to Terminology Used in Genetics
Genetics is the branch of science concerned with heredity in organisms, such as humans. What are genes, DNA, chromosomes and proteins - and where are they stored?
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Membrane Bound Organelles
Organelles allow for many of the different required functions of the eukaryotic cell to be performed in specialized subcellular structures.
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MOA of Cephalosporin Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How do they destroy bacteria without hurting our cells?
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MOA of Macrolide Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How do macrolides destroy bacteria without hurting our cells?
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MOA of Penicillin Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How does penicillin destroy bacteria without hurting our cells?
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Viral Genes in Human Genome
The genetic blueprint of every human contains a significant amount of DNA that is not actually human. Dormant fossil viruses have infiltrated our genome.
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What Is Cellular Metabolism?
We hear the word used all the time, read diet books on how to boost ours and lament its slowing as we age. But what exactly is metabolism?
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What Is the Electron Transport Chain (ETC)
The electron transport chain is the most complex and productive pathway of cellular respiration. Here is a straightforward, simplified explanation of how the ETC works.
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Why Do We Breathe? Aerobic Cellular Respiration
Glycolysis, synthesis of acetyl-CoA, Kreb's Cycle and electron transport are the complex series of reactions that turn the food we eat into energy.
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What's the Difference between Mitosis & Meiosis
Mitosis is how the cells of our body make more cells for growth, development and repair. Meiosis is how our body makes sex cells, or gametes (eggs or sperm).
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Gram Negative Bacterial Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs typically caused by a bacteria, virus, or inhaled substances. Here is a look at some gram-negative bacterial causes.
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Meiosis & Sexual Reproduction
Meiosis, a type of cell division, results in production of gametes (eggs & sperm). Genetically unique sex cells combine at fertilization to form one-of-a-kind offspring.
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Viral Infectious Disease
Although they appear to behave as living things, viruses, viroids and prions are nonliving particles. Read on and discover more about these 'smart' parasites.
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What Is a Virion or Virus?
Viruses are not living cells, but efficient parasites that commandeer living cells and turn them into virus factories. Learn how these nonliving particles act so smart.
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