Microscopy
What kind of microscope uses electrons to create a 2D image of a specimen?
What is a TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope)?
What kind of lipid is the cell membrane made of?
What is a phospholipid?
Which microbial cell wall is more complex, gram positive or gram negative?
What is gram negative?
What point on the microbial growth curve shows exponential growth?
What is log phase?
What are the three types of diversity?
What are α, β, and γ diversity?
What kind of light microscopy requires dying the specimen for best contrast?
What is brightfield microscopy?
When a compound enters an enzyme, what structure is momentarily formed?
What is an enzyme-substrate complex?
What kind of capsid is used by bacteriophages?
What is a compound capsid?
What does heat do to proteins in microorganisms?
What is denaturation?
What fungus is used in the production of soy sauce?
What is Aspergillus?
What kind of microscope is used to scan thick specimens?
What is confocal microscopy?
What determines the special properties of an amino acid?
What is its side chain?
What do bacteria do when resources are running low, or in other stressful situations?
What is creating an endospore?
In a growth media with varying levels of oxygen concentration, a type of microbe is found to largely exist in the parts with high amounts of oxygen, but a small number exist in the areas with low oxygen. What is the name of this kind of microorganism?
If a bacteria is resistant to cold, what class of extremophile does it fall under?
What is a psychrophile?
What kind of microscopy superseded darkfield microscopy because of its clearer images?
What is phase contrast microscopy?
This type of mutation changes one base pair in a sequence of DNA, and results in the stop of the protein production when it is transcribed and translated. What is its name?
What is a nonsense base substitution?
What structure allows bacteria to move?
What is a flagellum?
What unit is used to count bacteria when counting the amount of colonies in a sample?
What are CFUs?
In which viral lifestyle is the genome of the virus incorporated into the genome of the bacteria for a short amount of time?
What is the lysogenic lifestyle?
What is the Abbe Diffraction Limit Equation used to calculate?
What is the minimum distance between two points that can still be detected through the bending of light?
Hydrogen bonds occur between water molecules. What phenomenon causes them to exist?
What are partial positive & negative charges?
What can interrupted mating be used to find?
What is the order of genes in the microbial genome?
A bacteria is observed to generate massive quantities of hydrogen peroxide. What type of hemolysis would this bacteria cause if it was placed in blood?
What is α hemolysis?
What process is used to measure the diversity of species in a given sample?
What is 16S Amplicon Sequencing?