General Terms
Breakdown or lysis (death) of red blood cells (erythrocytes) resulting in release of hemoglobin
What is Hemolysis?
Selective medium, used to cultivate fungi and inhibits bacterial growth
What is Sabouraud Agar?
Innfoldings of the inner membrane that increase the surface area of the membrane
What are Cristae?
microbes that grow best in basic conditions
what are alkaliphiles?
kills the bacteria, reduces bacterial load
What are Bactericidal antibiotics?
Visible characteristics of cell colonies?
What is Colony Morphology?
Reveal metabolic differences using indicators, such as colour changes
What is differential media?
an enzyme that synthesizes ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate
require very low O₂ (2-10%), higher O₂ will kill them
What is a Microaerophile?
inhibit growth and reproduction of bacteria
What are bateriostatic antibiotics?
Organisms that require many growth factors
What are Fastidious organisms?
Selective medium used solely to isolate and identify P.aeruginosa
What is Cetrimide Agar?
series of biochemical reactions catalyzed by many enzymes
What is the Electron Transport Chain
how much "free water" is available for microbial growth, range of 0-1
What is water activity?
carries the acetyl into the Krebs cycle
What is Acetyl CoA?
growth ceases due to nutrient depletion, cells remain metabolically active
What is the Stationary Phase?
Selective medium for halophilic bacteria (salt-tolerant) due to it's high salt concentration
Differential medium for mannitol fermenters
What is MSA?
Enzyme that carries out pyruvate oxidation
what is Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex
do not require salt, but can survive and grow in its presence
what is halotolerant?
the specific traits or molecules that enable it to infect a host, evade the immune system, or cause damage
what are virulence factors?
working together, living together in harmony
What is symbiotic?
Enriched, non-selective, overgrowth occurs
What is Chocolate Agar?
in anaerobic conditions microbes oxidize pyruvate incompletely into multiple end products such as alcohols and acids
what is Fermentation?
grow in high sugar environments
what is osmophiles?
An alternative to glycolysis
What is the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway?