Short Event Description: Teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.
Which is a characteristic of a retrovirus?
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 6th, 2016, 4:24 pm
by bhavjain
Sensei_Sushi wrote:Short Event Description: Teams will answer questions, solve problems and analyze data pertaining to microbes.
Which is a characteristic of a retrovirus?
Retroviruses have RNA as their genomic code, and use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (not found in eukaryotes) to convert this RNA into DNA inside the host cell.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 14th, 2016, 8:16 pm
by bhavjain
Which disease may be prevented by improving access to clean water and praziquantel?
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 16th, 2016, 6:33 pm
by tm-scioli
schistosoma
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 16th, 2016, 8:40 pm
by bhavjain
tm-scioli wrote:
schistosoma
Correct. Usually the disease is called schistosomiasis.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 17th, 2016, 8:48 am
by tm-scioli
name 3 structural difference between gram positive and negative bacteria
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 17th, 2016, 3:41 pm
by bhavjain
tm-scioli wrote:name 3 structural difference between gram positive and negative bacteria
1. Thick, multilayered peptidoglycan layer in gram-positive vs. thin, single-layered in gram-negative.
2. Gram-positive has numerous teichoic acids, while gram-negative does not.
3. Gram-positive has a low LPS content, while gram-negative has a high one.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 17th, 2016, 4:47 pm
by tm-scioli
correct, your turn
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 17th, 2016, 8:54 pm
by bhavjain
What is Wolbachia used for?
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: September 17th, 2016, 10:01 pm
by tm-scioli
what I do know is that it could possibly be used to control mosquito populations and lessen the effects of parasitic worms