Shape
This bacteria is shaped like a circle?
What is sphere shaped.
ex: Staph and Strep
How is bacteria measured in size.
What are Microns. Most bacteria are 1 or 2 microns in size.
The color of gram positive bacteria is?
What is purple.
True or False
Viruses are bigger then bacteria.What is False? Viruses are about 1000 times smaller then bacteria.
This is capable of producing disease?
What is a pathogen.
What shape is E coli?
What is Bacillus shaped like rods.
ex: Pseudomonas and Enterobacteria
Can live in the absences of atmospheric oxygen?
What is Anaerobic.
Give one example of a gram negative bacteria?
What is Meningitis, Gonorrhoeae, Acinetobacter, E.coli, Proteus, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Salmonella, Shigella.
Name an airborne virus.
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This is capable of forming a thick wall around themselves, enabling them to survive in adverse contditions?
What is endospores(spores).
The shape is Meningitidis?
What is Cocci.
One celled animal organisms that very widely in size and shape and contain no cell walls.
What is Protozoa.
Ex: Entamoeba, commonly found in feces, and GI track in the body.
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The color for negative gram staining?
What is the color pink.
Name the most prevalent chronic bloodborne infection found today.
What Hepatitis C. Blood to blood contact.
Requires the presence of the air or free oxygen?
What is Aerobic.
What shape is Salmonella.
What is Bacillus shaped.
Are all Fungi aerobic or anaerobic?
What is aerobic which requires oxygen.
The color is Tuberculosis in reference to gram staining?
What is the color purple, for gram positive bacteria.
How is VRE transmitted?
(Vancomycin resistant Enterococci)
What is when hands become contaminated from infected feces, urine or blood. Also found by touching contaminated environmental surfaces and instruments.
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The measure of alkalinity or acid on a scale of 0 to 14 is called?
What is PH.
PH of 7 is Neutral like water,
A PH below 7 is acid, like battery acid lemon juice and PH above 7 is Alkaline like baking soda or ammonia
Pylori bacteria is what shape bacteria?
This bacteria are shaped like?
What is Spiral shaped bacteria.
Is ALL bacteria bad for you?
What is no. 95% of bacteria is beneficial and essential. Useful in sewage treatments.
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Pseudomonas is what color for gram staining?
What is the color pink for gram negative bacteria.
Name a Prion Disease that is extremely hard to kill on instruments and surfaces?
What is CJD, Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.
The method of bacterial reproduction in which a cell divides into 2 equal parts every 20 minuets.
What is Binary Fission.