Bacteria Can Be Eliminated In Many Ways

1. Soap, Heat, Alcohol, and Denaturing Proteins Bacteria Can Be Eliminated In Many Ways

2. Does a good job of getting rid of dirt, grease, and grime off of your body. It doesn’t however destroy bacteria. Soap and Water

3. Denaturing or destroying bacteria chemically is the only way to really fight germs. • There are two easy ways to destroy bacteria and denature there proteins for sure • Alcohol • Heat Alcohol and Heat

4. Much of bacteria's vital parts and structure are made of protein chains. If the structure of these proteins is destroyed the cell cannot survive. When the structure of these proteins is destroyed it is called denaturing. Denaturing Proteins

5. Protein structure is specific and helical before denaturing. The structure, if you could see it, would look much like a stretched out slinky. It looks like this because some molecules in the protein are scared of water (hydrophobic), and others love water (hydrophilic). Before Denaturing

6. The structure of the protein is destroyed and is no longer specific. After being denatured it would resemble something like a pile of yarn or string. After Denaturing

7. Alcohol causes proteins to be denatured by breaking relatively weak hydrogen bonds. Breaking these hydrogen bonds causes the molecules that make up each protein chain to be scattered randomly causing the proteins to lose structure. Alcohol is in gel and sanitizers like Purell. Alcohol

8. Heat also breaks hydrogen bonds. Heat causes the molecules that like and the molecules that don’t like water to be scattered. Organized randomly because they want to be either dry or wet. This causes water and air to be trapped in the proteins, called coagulation. A Fried egg is a good example. Heat