Chapter 1 and 2
What stain is used to differentiate bacterial cells based on the components of their cell walls?
What is the gram stain?
True or False. Exposure to air is necessary for microbial growth.
What is false?
What type of organism can thrive in extremely salty environments such as the Dead Sea?
What are halophiles?
Unicellular fungi are called what?
What is yeast?
A virus that infects a bacterium is called a/an
What is a bacteriophage?
Who was the first to describe “cells” in dead cork tissue?
Who is Robert Hooke?
Which of the following individuals is credited for definitively refuting the theory of spontaneous generation using broth in swan-neck flask?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
When prokaryotes live as interacting communities in which one population benefits to the harm of the other, the type of symbiosis is called ________.
What is parasitism?
A fluke is classified within which group?
What is Platyhelminthes?
A virus obtains its envelope during which phase of the cycle?
What is the release phase?
Which type of microscope would be the best choice for viewing very small surface structures of a cell?
What is a scanning electron microscope?
What is the overall size of the bacterial ribosome?
What is 70s?
What type of bacterial classification is most closely resembling ancient cells?
What are deeply branching bacteria?
Which genus includes the causative agent for malaria?
What is Plasmodium?
What is another name for a nonenveloped virus?
What is a naked virus?
Who is considered the “father of Western medicine”?
Who is Hippocrates?
Which of the following terms refers to a bacterial cell having a single tuft of flagella at one end?
What is lophotrichous?
What is 1%?
A nonsegmented worm is found during a routine colonoscopy of an individual who reported having abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting. This worm is likely which of the following?
What is a nematode?
In naming viruses, the family name ends with ________?
What is −viridae?
When naming an organism, what things must you consider?
What is genus, species, italicizing, capitalize the first word, and lowercase the second word?
Which type of nutrient uptake involves the engulfment of small dissolved molecules into vesicles?
What is pinocytosis?
Archaea and Bacteria are most similar in terms of their what?
What is a unicellular structure?
Which polysaccharide found in red algal cell walls is a useful solidifying agent?
What is agar?
What are the 3 stages, in order, of the viral growth curve?
What is inoculation, eclipse, and burst?