The name of the tour guide at the Tijuana Estuary.
What is Brian
100
What are bacteriophage
What are viruses of bacteria
100
a microbe that has the ability to cause disease
What is a pathogen
100
What does PCR stand for?
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction
100
the ability to maintain a sample, or culture, free of undesired microbes (contamination)
What is aseptic technique
200
the cost to run the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
What is $3 million dollars
200
the test that differentiates bacteria into two large groups based on cell well composition
What is gram stain
200
the intensity of a pathogen
What is virulence
200
the three steps of PCR
What is denature, anneal, extend
200
the most common method of bacterial colony isolation
What is streak plating
300
where the solid waste is sent to for processing
What is Back to Mexico
300
the major difference between cell walls in gram positive bacteria and cell walls in gram negative bacteria
What is the amount of peptidoglycan
300
the initial & immediate immune response that is not specific to pathogens
What is innate immunity
300
the four major components of PCR
What is dNTP's, Heat stable polymerase, primers, & template
300
the selective media used to distinguish the genus Vibrio
What is TCBS
400
the company that provides software to analyze social media trends
What is ESRI
400
the study of the occurrence of disease in populations
What is epidemiology
400
the first line of defense against pathogen invasion
What is physical barriers, chemical factors, & normal microbiota
400
Who developed PCR?
Who is Kary Mullis
400
the wavelength at which DNA is absorbed
What is 260 nm
500
the university's annual electrical bill
What is zero dollars
500
Koch's Postulates of Disease
What are
1. Organism present in each diseased host
2. Obtain pure culture of organism
3. Organism causes same disease in healthy host
4. Re-isolation from newly infected host
500
globular proteins known as immunoglobulins which bind to antigen to elicit a immune response
What are Antibodies
500
the purpose for adding Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA)
What is reducing PCR inhibition
500
the use of culture-independent molecular & bioinformatics techniques to determine the composition of the microbial population in a particular environment