General Microbiology
The study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa.
What is Microbiology?
Requiring oxygen but can grow without.
What is facultative aerobe?
The purpose of agar.
What is "to solidify"?
A netlike arrangement of flattened,hollow tubules that functions a transport system.
What is Endoplasmic Reticulum?
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A Dutch tailor who discovered the bacterial world and made the first magnifying glass.
Who is Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek?
Requiring the presence of carbon dioxide.
What is capnophilic?
The Counter stain for Gram Staining.
What is Saffranin?
Often the largest organelle in the cell and contains most of the cell's DNA.
What is the Nucleus?
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The study of blood serum.
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The study of the body's defenses against specific pathogens.
What is Serology?
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What is Immunology?
Bacteria stain different colours in gram staining due to this.
What is Peptidoglycan?
Growth Requirements for bacteria.
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The chromophore charge in a basic dye?
What is temperature, oxygen, pH?
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What is a cation (+) charge?
Receives, processes, and packages large molecules for export from cell. Known as the "Post Office" of the cell.
What is Golgi Apparatus or Golgi Body?
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1.What are the basic chemical reactions of life?
2.How do Genes Work?
3.What role do microorganisms play in the environment?
4. How do we defend against disease?
5. What will the future hold?
What are the 5 questions that currently drive research in the field of microbiology?
An organism that will grow at the bottom of Thioglycolate broth.
What is obligate anaerobe?
A rod shape organism stained pink.
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The decolorizer in gram staining.
What is gram negative bacilli?
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What is ethyl alcohol?
The ways to preserve cultures.
What is refrigeration, deep freezing, or lyophilization (freezing drying)
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Scottish Physician and microbiologist who discovered the world's first effective antibiotc, penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Harmless microorganisms that normally reside in many parts of the body.
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Bacterial growth beginning as one cell and dividing multiple times to become visible.
What is normal flora?
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What is a colony?
Four growth phases of a bacteria.
(In order of logorithmic grid)
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Bacteria that grow in 10*C, 25-35* C, 60*C,>70*C
What are Lag, Log, Stationary, and Death phases?
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What are Psychrophiles, Mesophiles, Thermophiles, and Hypermophiles?
First and last steps of binary fission.
(In order)
What is:
1. Cell grows in size
2. Chromosomes are seperated
3. A septum forms
4. Daughter cells seperate or remain attached
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