Biological Tests
Organisms Chart
Gene Regulation
Lethal Effects of Heat/UV
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100

This tests for viability

What is trypticase soy agar?

100

Causes diarrhea

What is Giardia lambia?

100

This turns the test tube yellow by cleaving B-galactosidase

What is ONPG?

100

Killing of all vegetative cells and endospores.

What is sterilization?

100

This is the total number of cases of a given disease.

What is prevalence rate?

200

Turns purple/pink for lactose fermentation

What is EMB plate? 

200

This organism affects the muscular system.

What is Trichinella spiralis?​​​
200

This occurs when a cell has a choice of two energy sources, one of which is more easily utilized than other

What is catabolite repression?

200

Lowest temperature needed to kill all of the microorganisms in a culture in 10minutes.

What is thermal death point (TDP)?

200

This means it has a steady frequency over time 

What is Endemic? 

300

Tests for citrate used as carbon source 

What is simmon's citrate test? 

300

The disease Plasmodium vivax causes

What is Malaria?

300

These genes are always in "on mode" and turned off only when they are not needed

What is repressible operons? 

300

Minimal time necessary to kill all of the microorganisms present in a culture held at a given temperature. 

What is thermal death time (TDT)? 
300

This is used to determine the presence of lactose fermenting bacteria that produce gas.

What is a presumptive test?

400

Tests for mixed acid fermentation. 

What is methyl red?

400

The transmission route of Schistosoma mansoni.

What are snails? 

400

This enzyme is produced in the presence of lactose.

What is beta-galactosidase? 

400

A mutation that occurs when DNA absorbs UV radiation and a new covalent bond is formed between adjacent pyrimidines.

What is a pyrimidine dimer? 

400

this chemical causes proteins to denature 

What is a disinfectant?

500

Tests for Butanediol fermentation pathway

What is MR-VP: Voges-Proskauer?

500
This causes African Sleeping Sickness.

What is Trypanosoma gambiense?

500

In a prokaryotic cell, these enzymes are used in basic energy pathways and are continually synthesized. 

What are constitutive enzymes? 

500

This occurs when an enzyme is activated by light or some wave lengths of UV radiation.

What is light repair?

500

This agent targets different parts of the bacterial cell, depending on the agent.

What is an antibiotic?