Essays Tagged: "bacterial cell"

Assessment: Infectious Diseases, Antibiotic resistance, Cataracts

w it affects bacteria at the cellular level.PENICILLIN works by preventing a very inportant part of bacterial cell formation-the production of cell wall. The cell walls of bacteria are made of cross-l ... treat diseases?Antibiotics cannot cure or treat all diseases. Antibiotics work only in the case of bacterial, fungal and often parasitic infections. Antibiotics are useless against diseases caused by ...

(5 pages) 1550 0 0.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Bacteria and Antibiotics

ing diseases. However , if bacteria became extinct eventually would we.Antibiotics cure and prevent bacterial disease andl infections. Alexander Flemming , in 1928 , discovered penicillin , the first ... n , a feature unique to bacteria . They are gram negative or positive . Metabolic activities of the bacterial cell differ significantly from those in the human cell .Antibiotics are a selective poison ...

(2 pages) 37 0 4.7 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

How to make a human

vidual can reproduce without involvement with another individual of that species. The division of a bacterial cell into two daughter cells is an example of asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction i ...

(3 pages) 16 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Experimentation Critique

idophilus and Bifidobacterium Bacteria may directly remove cholesterol by incorporating it into the bacterial cell membrane, binding cholesterol to the cell surface or assimilating cholesterol during ...

(3 pages) 75 0 5.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Lab Report of the Experiment of Conjugation of E. Coli

physical connection between the cells. In the following experiment, two strains of Escherichia coli bacterial cells (donor F'lac+strs and recipient F-lac-strr) underwent conjugation to produce a trans ... effectively transferred from the donor cells into the recipient cells via conjugation.Introduction:Bacterial conjugation is the unidirectional transfer of either genomic DNA or plasmid DNA from a don ...

(9 pages) 38 0 3.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Scientific criticism of the journal ‘Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome’ by Gibson et al., published in Science on the 2nd of July 2010.

itical Evaluation of a Scientific PaperIntroductionThe paper, chosen for critique is 'Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome' by Gibson et al., published in Science ... xperiment which was carried out by Craig Venter and his research team. Synthesis of the genome of a bacterial cell and the transplantation of such genome into another bacterial cell, allowed the resea ...

(6 pages) 0 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Criticism of the journal ‘Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome’ by Gibson et al., published in Science on the 2nd of July 2010.

itical Evaluation of a Scientific PaperIntroductionThe paper, chosen for critique is 'Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome' by Gibson et al., published in Science ... xperiment which was carried out by Craig Venter and his research team. Synthesis of the genome of a bacterial cell and the transplantation of such genome into another bacterial cell, allowed the resea ...

(6 pages) 3 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Most important discovery by man

tic (bacteria stopped from multiplying) [5] or bactericidal (bacteria killed). These interfere with bacterial cell surface, causing a change in their mode of reproduction [3]. Antibiotics comes in qui ...

(3 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jul/2013

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology