Growth
The technique where you count CFUs
What are viable counts?
A compound after it has accepted electrons
What is a reduced compound?
The carbon products of fermentation
What is lactate or ethanol + CO2?
Group of microbes that are metabolically similar and use the same resources
What is a guild?
What are floating and swimming?
A device that kills endospores using heat and pressure
What is an autoclave?
ATP produced by proton motive force
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
What is the pentose phosphate pathway?
The process by which microbes sense their own population density
What is quorum sensing?
The components of the Bacterial flagellum
What are the basal body, hook, and filament?
This membrane adaptation allows thermophiles with bilayer membranes to survive high temperatures
What are long straight-chain fatty acids?
What is glycolysis?
The protein that holds the growing fatty acid as its chain grows
What are acyl carrier proteins?
The total number of species in a sample
What is richness?
The energy source for archaella
What is ATP hydrolysis?
A microbe that grows in the presence of small amounts of oxygen, but large amounts are toxic to them
What is a microaerophile?
The metabolic process that generates the most ATP
What is cellular respiration?
An antibiotic that inhibits peptidoglycan crosslinking
What is penicillin?
When microbes in a community divides the steps of a metabolic pathway amongst each other
What is handoff?
This type of motility is a group movement
What is swarming motility?
The time it takes to cause a 10-fold reduction in cell numbers
What is decimal reduction time (D-value)?
The primary enzyme in the Calvin Cycle
What is RuBisCO?
These two enzymes are similar in that they are both oxygen sensitive
What are nitrogenase and RuBisCO?
A molecule that microbes secrete to acquire iron from the environment
What is a siderophore?
When the flagellum rotates in this direction, the cell runs straight
What is counterclockwise rotation?