Learning Objectives for "Prokaryotic Cell Anatomy: Flagella"
After completing this section you should be able to perform the following objectives.
1. Describe the basic structure of a bacterial flagellum and state its function.
2. State what provides the energy for bacterial flagellar rotation.
3. Define the following flagellar arrangements:
a. monotrichous
b. lophotrichous
c. amphitrichous
d. peritrichous
e. axial filaments
4. Define taxis.
5. Compare and contrast how bacteria with peritrichous flagella and bacteria with polar flagella carry out taxis.
6*. Compare and contrast innate immunity and adaptive immunity.
7*. Define antigen and epitope.
8*. Define humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity.
9*. State how bacterial flagella may play a role in the initiation of innate immune defenses.
10*. Briefly describe how bacterial flagella and chemotaxis may play a role in the pathogenocity of some bacteria.
11*. Briefly describe how antibodies made against bacterial flagella can immobilize bacteria and/or promote phagocytosis.
(*) = Common theme throughout the course
Highlighted Bacterium
1. Read the description of Treponema pallidum and match the bacterium with the description of the organism and the infection it causes.
Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
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Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.
Last updated: August, 2018
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Gary Kaiser