What are the 4 Koch's Postulates? - Microorganim should be present in all sick, can be cultured, can cause disease in a healthy organism, and can be reisolated , What is the purpose of Koch's Postulates? - Four criteria to identify a certain microbe as the disease-causing organism, What are the two main parts of the immune system? - Adaptive and Innate , What are the main cells in the innate immune system? - Macrophages, Basophils, Mast Cells, Eosinophils, NK cells, neutrophils, What are the main cells in the adaptive immune system? - Macrophages, dendritic cells, T cells, B cells, What is a microbiome? - microorganisms found living together in a specific environment, Are all bacteria bad in our bodies? - No there are some very helpful, What is the purpose of an ELISA test? - To use lab-made antigens against a specific bacteria/virus to see if a patients sample has the matching antibody (indicating that the person is infected), Why do we use positive/negative controls? - To show us what a positive or negative unknown would look like., Why would we do a test in triplicate? - To lower the chances of a human error causing us to make the wrong conclusion, Order of the immune system? - Macrophages --> White blood cells -->NK/Neutrophils -->Macrophages and dendritic --> Helper T cells --> B cells --> C-T cells , What are the differences between innate and adaptive immune system? - innate happens fast, but is sloppy. Adaptive is slow, but very precise,

Unit 7 Microbiology

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