Microbial Taxonomy
The 5 main factors within microbial taxonomy
What are prokaryotes, eukaryotes, fungi, viruses and helminths
Four main bacterial shapes
What are the four virus shapes
What are complex, helical, spherical, and polyhedrial
Medical practice that keeps patients protected from dangerous viruses or germs
What is an aseptic technique
Name the two types of gram tests
What are gram+ and gram-
Four main types of archaea that live in EXTREME climates
Name characteristic of bacilli
what is rod shaped
What is bacteriophage
What is a virus that infects bacteria
What allows microbiologists to identify their growths
What is narrowing down
what is the difference between a gram+ and a gram- test
Gram-positive has a thick peptidoglycan layer while gram-negative has a thin or no peptidoglycan layer
What climate does algae live in
what is damp soil, rocks and water
characteristics of cocci
what is round and spherical
Two types of nuclaic acid
What are DNA and RNA
What happens when you use MacConkey agar with lactose vs. non-lactose fermenting colonies?
Lactose colonies will turn the agar pink while non-lactose colonies will not change.
What test do you use when identifying aerobic bacteria
What is a catalese test
What are some ways of locomotion in protozoa
What are cilia, flagellates and pseudopodia
characteristic of spirilla shaped bacteria
what is rigid and spiral shaped
5 ways infection can be spread
What are airborne, common vehicle, vector-borne, direct contact, and droplet
What does the word beta mean
What do you use to plate cells
what is chitin
characteristics of filamentous bacteria
what is thread-like cells that elongate but do not divide
Iron binding factor that competes with a host for iron hemoglobin uses iron to carry O2
What is siderophores
5 types of agar
What are LB, Potato Dextrose, Yeast mannitol, sheep blood, and maccogney
What are the three main plating techniques
What are the triple-z, 4-quadrant streak, and incubation