🎯 Immune System
TARGETS
| 22. Microorganisms and their environment interact with and modify each other. | List two factors that limit growth in a batch culture. Define the term eutrophication. |
Choose a perturbation to a novel environment, and predict the change to the resident microbial community. Explain how the presence of a microorganism elicits a cellular or humoral specific immune response. Discuss an example of host-parasite (e.g., human and microbes, bacteria and phage, etc.) coevolution. Describe how fermentative bacteria in sourdough (or other foods) change their environment, and how that affects the initial community. Explain why the presence of nitrogen-fixing bacteria is often required to support other growth in a diverse ecosystem. |