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Food Microbiology
Industrial Microbiology
Viral Replication
Virus Characteristics
Pathogenic Micro
100
Acts as a preservative Destroys pathogenic microbes and toxins Can add nutritional value in form of vitamins or other nutrients
What is the function of microbial metabolism?
100
Produced during active growth and metabolism Required for reproduction or are by-products of metabolism
What are primary metabolites?
100
A DNA usually replicates here in the cell.
What is the nucleus?
100
Sugar-coated proteins that mediate attachment and entry.
What are glycoproteins?
100
Microbes that stay with you during your lifetime.
What are resident microbes (or microbiota)?
200
Processing, handling, modification of foods
What are extrinsic food spoilage factors?
200
Addition of this agent, known as alum, acts as a flocculant.
What is aluminum potassium sulfate?
200
An RNA virus usually replicates here.
What is the cytoplasm?
200
The capsid is made of these protein subcomponents.
What are capsomeres?
200
Naturally occurring microbes in/on a human that can become pathogenic.
What are opportunists?
300
2 pyruvic acids to 2 lactic acids
What is lactic acid fermentation?
300
This indicator organism is best suited to determine if water has fecal contamination.
What is E. coli?
300
Positive and negative sense RNA viruses must encode for this enzyme in order to propagate.
What is RNA-dependent RNA-transcriptase?
300
The capsid plus the viral genome.
What is the nucleocapsid?
300
I have the potential to turn something good into something bad. If I get the opportunity, things will go out of control.
What is a proto-oncogene?
400
Consumption of food containing harmful, living microorganisms.
What is food infection?
400
The qualitative water quality test?
What is the membrane filtration test?
400
The first step in dsRNA viral replication is this.
What is unwinding?
400
Restricted host preference of a virus?
What is host tropism?
400
The ability of an organism to cause disease.
What is pathogenicity?
500
Causative agent of mass melon recall in 2010. Particularly harmful for pregnant women. Can grow at 4C.
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
500
E. coli and other GI bacteria that are commonly known to fecally contaminate water are known as these.
What are enteric bacteria?
500
The goal of viral replication and viral synthesis.
What is production of progeny virions?
500
Method of entry for naked (non-enveloped) viruses.
What is direct penetration?
500
Hospital acquired infection.
What is nosocomial?