Microbiology Daily Newsletter

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January 21, 2014 - Prior Knowledge

An important activity at the start of each semester is to assess your prior knowledge, and consider your academic strengths and weaknesses. In class today, we reviewed important details regarding cells, and started looking at prokaryotic cells. How comfortable were you with the material? Did you remember the concepts that I brought up?

In order to help you assess your prior knowledge, I ask you to review the checklist below and rate yourself. As a general guideline, at this academic level, you should have a mental construct/picture of the following structures and processes, and have the ability to communicate your understanding. This would be a rating of "Comfortable". If you have an idea about the structure or process, then you would use the rating of "Uncomfortable." If you have no idea about it, rate yourself as "Unaware."

Comfortable Uncomfortable Unaware	Topics
	Cell Theory
	Fluid Mosaic Model of the membrane
	Transport Proteins
	Receptors
	Enzyme Kinetics (Michaelis–Menten kinetics)
	Redox Reactions
	Electrochemical Gradients (especially the Proton Motive Force)
	Replication, Transcription, Translation (central dogma)
	how enzymes work