Organism Characteristics
This is what prokaryotes don't have.
What is membrane-bound organelles?
This physical control method is more effective at a lower temperature and a lower exposure time.
What is moist heat?
This is the viral cycle that results in cell lysis.
What is the lytic cycle?
This is the term used to describe microbes that are capable of causing disease.
What is pathogenic?
This is the reservoir for Clostridium tetani.
What is the soil?
This is a proteinaceous infectious particle that causes fatal nervous system infections like scrapie, CJD, or fatal familial insomnia.
What is a prion?
This is the shortest length of time required to kill all test microbes at a given temperature.
What is thermal death time?
This is how the Gram stain differentiates between bacteria.
What is the cell wall composition?
This is the phase in the bacterial growth curve where bacterial cells are growing at their highest rate because nutrient availability is high.
What is the exponential growth phase?
Identify the disease: causes a maculopapular rash, is highly contagious, is spread through respiratory aerosols or droplets, and causes fatalities primarily in children.
What is measles?
Prokaryote that is known as an extremophile.
What is archaea?
This is the type of microbial control that can be applied directly to the skin.
What is antisepsis?
This is a close nutritional relationship in which one organism benefits but the other is not benefited or harmed.
What is commensalism?
True or false: The higher the infectious dose, the more pathogenic an organism is!
What is FALSE?
Identify the causative agent: Causes a red bull's eye cash to form, transmitted by hard ticks, and mimics arthritis-like symptoms that are progressive.
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?
This eukaryotic organism is known for being either multi- or unicellular.
What is fungi?
This is what we call the permanent loss of reproductive ability.
What is microbial death?
This is the most important thing to take into account when choosing an antimicrobial drug.
What is selective toxicity?
This is the time when a pathogen is at peak activity and signs & symptoms are profound.
What is the invasion period?
Identify the disease: has three distinct phases of infection. Starts as a hard chancre that spontaneously heals followed by systemic infection and disease and finally the formation of gummas and other sequelae.
What is syphilis?
This is the basic structure of a viral particle.
What is the nucleocapsid?
This organism has the highest resistance to all microbial control methods.
What is a bacterial endospore?
This decreases the activation energy of a reaction, allowing the reactions to happen easier and quicker.
What is an enzyme?
This describes the type of cells and organisms a virus can infect.
What is host range?
This is the most susceptible individual to have serious complications of infection by Toxoplasma gondii.
What are fetuses/babies in the womb?