Second Lecture : 12/9/14

This was my second micro lecture.

These were all I had learnt in my second lecture.
1) The cell wall of fungus is made up of chitin, same with the cell wall of insects.
2) The cell wall of diatom is made up of silica.
3) Clostridium Botulinum: spore-forming bacteria that cause food poisoning in canned food.
4) Zooglea : bacteria that used in sewage treatment
5) Alfatoxin: Toxin that produced by fungus
6) Penicillin are produced by Penicillium Chrysogenum
7) Streptomycin are produced by Straptomicus Grisens
8) Bioremediation is the techniques that involves the use of microorganusms to remove pollutants.
9) Mycoremediation is a form of bioremediation which fungi are used to decontaminate the area.
10) Example of bioremediation: bacteriaable to break down oil component into harmless substances when oil spill occurred.
11)  pH of skin is 5.5
12) Normal microbiota is non-pathagenic bacteria that reside in human body. Normal microbiota help to protect human by competeing with invading pathogen for space or food.
13)Insect pathogen: Bacillus Thuringiensis. this bacteria produce endotoxin that may attaches to specific receptor sites and paralyses the cell of insects.


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