Viruses
Things that separate viruses from other microbes.
What is non-living and non-cellular?
Transmission method that is long distance and allows pathogens to stay suspended in the air for up to 6 feet.
What is airborne?
The term used for when prokaryotes produce identical daughter cells.
What is binary fission?
The reason petri dishes placed upside down in incubators.
What is condensation?
Color of a gram-positive result.
The two elements of a virus.
What is nucleic acid and a protein coat?
The forth link on the chain of infection.
What is transmission?
The term for being able to live with or without oxygen.
What is facultative (an)aerobic?
The product that helps seal petri dishes.
What is parafilm?
Term to describe a bacteria colony with visible rings inside of it.
The more durable outer layer of a virus.
What is a capsid?
Substance released when a gram-negative bacteria dies.
What is endotoxin?
The term for bacteria that prefer low oxygen levels.
What are microaerophiles?
The most popular and nonselective type of agar.
What is LB (lysogeny broth) agar?
Name for the red stain used during a gram stain.
The shape of a bacteriophage.
Substance released by living gram-positive bacteria.
What is exotoxin?
The appendage bacteria use to stick to cells.
What is pili?
Two things that potato dextrose grows.
What are bacteria and fungi?
Four things that affect bacterial growth.
What are (space, waste, gas concentration, pH, nutrients, temperature, water)?
The two terms to describe how a virus can be grown in a host or without one.
What are in vivo and in vitro?
The term for the ingestion of bacteria by phagocytes and amoeboid protozoans. Something capsules are resistant to.
What is phagocytosis?
The substance that affects a gram stain in a bacterium's cell wall.
What is peptidoglycan?
Viruses that require a bacterial lawn to grow.
What are bacteriophages?
Two tests used to identify aerobic bacteria.
What is a catalase and thioglycollate test?