micro chapter 10
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- serological testing
- techniques for identifying a microorganism based on its reaction with antibodies
- RIBOSOMAL RNA (rRNA) SEQUENCING
- DETERMINATION OF THE ORDER OF NUCLEOTIDE BASES IN rRNA
- BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
- THE SYSTEM OF HAVING TWO NAMES (GENUS AND SPECIFIC EPITHET) FOR EACH ORGANISM; ALSO CALLED SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE
- NOMENCLATURE
- THE SYSTEM OF NAMING THINGS
- BACTERIA
- KINGDOM OF PROKARYOTIC ORGANISMS, CHARACTERIZED BY PEPTIDOGLYCAN CELL WALLS; BACTERIUM (SINGULAR) WHEN REFERRING TO A SINGLE ORGANISM
- DOMAIN
- A TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION BASED ON rRNA SEQUENCES; ABOVE THE KINGDOM LEVEL
- PHAGE TYPING
- A METHOD OF IDENTIFYING BACTERIA USING SPECIFIC STRAINS OF BACTERIOPHAGES
- NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION
- THE PROCESS OF COMBINING SINGLE COMPLEMENTARY STRANDS OF DNA
- PROTIST
- THERM USED FOR UNICELLULAR AND SIMPLE MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTES; USUALLY PROTOZOA AND ALGAE
- SLIDE AGGLUTINATION TEST
- A METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AN ANTIGEN BY COMBINING IT WITH A SPECIFIC ANTIBODY ON A SLIDE
- DNA FINGERPRINTING
- ANALYSIS OF DNA BY ELECTROPHORESIS OF RESTRICTION ENZYME FRAGMENTS OF THE DNA
- FAMILY
- A TAXONOMIC GROUP BETWEEN ORDER AND GENUS
- FUNGUS (pl. FUNGI)
- AN ORGANISM THAT BELONGS TO THE KINGDOM FUNGI; A EUKARYOTIC ABSORPTIVE CHEMOHETEROTROPH
- ORDER
- A TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN CLASS AND FAMILY
- STRAIN
- A GENETICALLY IDENTICAL GROUP OF CELLS DERIVED FROM A SINGLE CELL
- KINGDOM
- A TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN DOMAIN AND PHYLUM
- GENUS (pl. GENERA)
- THE FIRST NAME OF THE SCIENTIFIC NAME (BINOMIAL); THE TAXON BETWEEN FAMILY AND SPECIES
- ARCHAEA
- PROKARYOTIC CELLS LACKING PEPTIDOGLYCAN; ONE OF THE THREE DOMAINS
- PHYLOGENY
- THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF A GROUP OF ORGANISMS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS
- ANIMALIA
- THE KINGDOM COMPOSED OF MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTES LACKING CELL WALLS
- DICHOTOMOUS KEY
- AN IDENTIFICATION SCHEME BASED ON SUCCESSIVE PAIRED QUESTIONS; ANSWERING ONE QUESTION LEADS TO ANOTHER PAIR OF QUESTIONS, UNTIL AN ORGANISM IS IDENTIFIES
- CLASS
- A TAXONOMIC GROUP BETWEEN PHYLUM AND ORDER
- TAXONOMY
- THE SCIENCE OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS
- BERGEY'S MANUAL
- BERGEY'S MANUAL OF SYSTEMATIC BACTERIOLOGY, THE STANDARD TAXONOMIC REFERENCE ON BACTERIA; ALSO REFERS TO BERGEY'S MANUAL OF DETERMINATIVE BACTERIOLOGY
- SOUTHERN BLOTTING
- A TECHNIQUE THAT USES DNA PROBES TO DETECT THE PRESENCE OF SPECIFIC DNA IN RESTRICTION FRAGMENTS SEPARATED BY ELECTROPHORESIS
- EUKARYA
- ALL EUKARYOTES (ANIMALS, PLANTS, FUNGI, AND PROTISTS); MEMBERS OF THE DOMAIN EUKARYA
- WESTERN BLOTTING
- A TECHNIQUE THAT USED ANTIBODIES TO DETECT THE PRESENCE OF SPECIFIC PROTEINS SEPARATED BY ELECTROPHORESIS
- PLANTAE
- THE KINGDOM COMPOSED OF MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTES WITH CELLULOSE CELL WALLS
- DNA BASE COMPOSITION
- THE MOLES-PERCENTAGE OF GUANINE PLUS CYTOSINE IN AN ORGANISM'S DNA
- EUKARYOTIC SPECIES
- A GROUP OF CLOSELY RELATED ORGANISMS THAT CAN INTERBREED
- PHYLUM
- A TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN KINGDOM AND CLASS
- ANTISERUM
- A BLOOD-DERIVED FLUID CONTAINING ANTIBODIES
- FLOW CYTOMETRY
- A METHOD OF COUNTING CELLS USING A FLOW CYTOMETER, WHICH DETECTS CELLS BY THE PRESENCE OF A FLUORESCENT TAG ON THE CELL SURFACE
- VIRAL SPECIES
- A GROUP OF VIRUSES SHARING THE SAME GENETIC INFORMATION AND ECOLOGICAL NICHE
- CLADOGRAM
- A DICHOTOMOUS PHYLOGENETIC TREE THAT BRANCHES REPEATEDLY, SUGGESTING THE CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS BASED ON THE TIME SEQUENCE IN WHICH EVOLUTIONARY BRANCHES AROSE
- DNA PROBE
- A SHORT, LABELED, SINGLE STRAND OF DNA OR RNA USED TO LOCATE ITS COMPLEMENTARY STRAND IN A QUANTITY OF DNA
- PROKARYOTIC SPECIES
- A POPULATION OF CELLS THAT SHARE CERTAIN rRNA SEQUENCES; IN CONVENTIONAL BIOCHEMICAL TESTING, IT IS A POPULATION OF CELLS WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS
- DIVISION
- A PHYLUM; USED IN BOTANY
- SEROLOGY
- THE BRANCH OF IMMUNOLOGY THAT STUDIES BLOOD SERUM AND ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS IN VITRO
- POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR)
- A TECHNIQUES USING DNA POLYMERASE TO MAKE MULTIPLE COPIES OF A DNA TEMPLATE IN VITRO
- SPECIFIC EPITHET
- THE SECOND OR SPECIES NAME IN A SCIENTIFIC BINOMIAL