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I am preparing my cheat sheet to use in microbe mission. Any tips or ideas of what i might need on the sheet.

Einstein wrote:I am preparing my cheat sheet to use in microbe mission. Any tips or ideas of what i might need on the sheet.

Everything on the rule sheet is a good idea. I only got 16th at MIT tho with mine, so you prob want to ask someone who medaled :/ (I'm interested too)

Einstein wrote:I am preparing my cheat sheet to use in microbe mission. Any tips or ideas of what i might need on the sheet.

Here's what we did:
1. We used 6pt arial narrow with a .2" margin and gave ourselves one line to cram as much info about each disease as possible. We gave ourselves 50 lines for 50 diseases and color code each section because titles take up too much space.
2. We used a chart on the difference in sizes of viruses, bacteria, etc.
3. We had small charts on the structures of bacteria, viruses, etc and their different shapes.
4. We made sure to add a section on the applications of bacteria in different industries and paid special attention to bacteria in the food industry, taking about 5 lines
5. We gave ourselves one to two pictures for each disease and shrunk them down to squares about 0.5" and made a grid. We captioned each picture with the disease name.
6. We made sure to do EVERYTHING in alphabetical order so we didn't spend time looking for anything.

We only medal'd 5th :/ but hey still a medal

Would appreciate some opinions on this. Is it worth the time to study the taxonomic divisions, specific metabolic processes, etc for every type of microbe (aside from pathogenic and commercially useful)? None of the tests I have taken so far have gone very in depth in terms of the specific morphological and physiological characteristics of the microbes. Nonetheless, I am afraid that this may change come stats/nats.

NeilMehta wrote: 2. We used a chart on the difference in sizes of viruses, bacteria, etc.
3. We had small charts on the structures of bacteria, viruses, etc and their different shapes.

I never use charts because of the tiny bits of space leftover in the cell that adds up, especially if the cheat sheet is crammed full. I just put everything in a list in a set order.

Uber wrote:

NeilMehta wrote: 2. We used a chart on the difference in sizes of viruses, bacteria, etc.
3. We had small charts on the structures of bacteria, viruses, etc and their different shapes.

I never use charts because of the tiny bits of space leftover in the cell that adds up, especially if the cheat sheet is crammed full. I just put everything in a list in a set order.

(I meant picture charts not grid charts sorry should've been specific)

NeilMehta wrote:

Uber wrote:

NeilMehta wrote: 2. We used a chart on the difference in sizes of viruses, bacteria, etc.
3. We had small charts on the structures of bacteria, viruses, etc and their different shapes.

I never use charts because of the tiny bits of space leftover in the cell that adds up, especially if the cheat sheet is crammed full. I just put everything in a list in a set order.

(I meant picture charts not grid charts sorry should've been specific)

For some things I use tables, if the white space is minimal and it is mostly reference. Because of how easy it is to read a good table, its convenient if you only have a few seconds to find read and answer a question.

On the MIT test, for Chlamydia and Syphilis it asks for the relative growth rate. Their respective answers on the key are fast and slow, but what does that mean exactly, and where could I find that out if I were researching it on the internet?

Additionally, is there a rule of thumb to tell if humoral or cell-mediated immunity is more important against a disease? (Though I haven't read about that too much so maybe I should do that hehe)

gryphaea1635 wrote:On the MIT test, for Chlamydia and Syphilis it asks for the relative growth rate. Their respective answers on the key are fast and slow, but what does that mean exactly, and where could I find that out if I were researching it on the internet?

Additionally, is there a rule of thumb to tell if humoral or cell-mediated immunity is more important against a disease? (Though I haven't read about that too much so maybe I should do that hehe)

Humoral or cell-mediated: depends on the method in which the infectious agent acts. I'd guess that humoral is more effective than cell-mediated for viruses (though of course that wouldn't apply here), though I don't remember enough from A&P to be sure.

Uber wrote:

NeilMehta wrote: 2. We used a chart on the difference in sizes of viruses, bacteria, etc.
3. We had small charts on the structures of bacteria, viruses, etc and their different shapes.

I never use charts because of the tiny bits of space leftover in the cell that adds up, especially if the cheat sheet is crammed full. I just put everything in a list in a set order.

I drew in structures after I printed out the notesheet. Whitespace and margins are your friend.