Monday, November 24, 2014

Week 9

Assalamualaikum.

This week we had 3 class of microbiology. One of the class with Dr. Wan. Yaayy. :D

Overall lecture for this week:
  • Spontaneous mutation and induced mutation. Spontaneous mutation can occurs without mutagen.
  • Missense mutation is occurs because of changes in first or second base.
  • Carcinogenic can cause cancer and can be test by Ames test.
  • Frame shift mutation is the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotide pairs.

We learn about viruses with Dr. Wan. The lectured was at 8 a.m.
  • Viruses have no species and the host for each virus is different and specific.
  • A bacterial virus which is bacteriophage is a virus that kills the pathogenic bacteria.
  • At hydrosphere there are a lot of viruses.
  • The virus will replicated and release as the virions.
  • Virions infect all cell types included eukaryotic and prokaryotic.
  • Capsids is important during transfer of genetic materials to the host.
  • Virus can be cultured in embryonated egg. 

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