Describe how bacterial cells acquire the ability to produce toxins.

Compare aerobic
respiration, anaerobic respiration and fermentation. How are the processes
similar? How are they different? How do these processes determine which
environment the organism can live in?[Key terms to use in answer: electron
transport chain, cytochrome, ATP, glucose, glycolysis, obligate aerobe,
facultative anaerobe, microaerophile, obligate anaerobe, oxidase, catalase,
peroxidase, CO2, organic acids and alcohols, alternative
substrates (other than glucose)].

Using your
knowledge of DNA recombination events to complete the following:
Propose two ways in which
antibiotic resistance may develop in a bacterium
Describe how bacterial cells
acquire the ability to produce toxins
(Use the following
terminology in your answer: recombination, DNA, horizontal gene transfer,
conjugation, transformation, transduction, pilus, F factor, transposable
elements, transposons, pathogenicity islands).

Discuss how a pathogen
causes an infection. Include definitions for primary pathogen, opportunistic
pathogen, infection, disease (caused by a living organism), and various stages
of pathogenesis. You can choose a specific organism to describe (like
Orthomyxovirus and Influenza) or discuss a generalized infection.

Describe
each type of infection in the following list and include the mode of
transmission in each scenario. Use terms such as primary, secondary,
healthcare-associated, STI, mixed, latent, toxemia, chronic, zoonotic,
asymptomatic, local, and systemic to describe the types of infections (more
than one term may apply, some may not apply to these conditions)
1) The development of
Pneumocystisis pneumonia in an AIDS patient
2) Salmonellosis
3) Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
infection acquired while vacationing in a log cabin

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