Biological Tests
This tests for viability
What is trypticase soy agar?
Causes diarrhea
What is Giardia lambia?
This turns the test tube yellow by cleaving B-galactosidase
What is ONPG?
Killing of all vegetative cells and endospores.
What is sterilization?
This is the total number of cases of a given disease.
What is prevalence rate?
Turns purple/pink for lactose fermentation
What is EMB plate?
This organism affects the muscular system.
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?
Lowest temperature needed to kill all of the microorganisms in a culture in 10minutes.
What is thermal death point (TDP)?
This means it has a steady frequency over time
What is Endemic?
Tests for citrate used as carbon source
What is simmon's citrate test?
The disease Plasmodium vivax causes
What is Malaria?
These genes are always in "on mode" and turned off only when they are not needed
What is repressible operons?
Minimal time necessary to kill all of the microorganisms present in a culture held at a given temperature.
This is used to determine the presence of lactose fermenting bacteria that produce gas.
What is a presumptive test?
Tests for mixed acid fermentation.
What is methyl red?
The transmission route of Schistosoma mansoni.
What are snails?
This enzyme is produced in the presence of lactose.
What is beta-galactosidase?
A mutation that occurs when DNA absorbs UV radiation and a new covalent bond is formed between adjacent pyrimidines.
What is a pyrimidine dimer?
this chemical causes proteins to denature
What is a disinfectant?
Tests for Butanediol fermentation pathway
What is MR-VP: Voges-Proskauer?
What is Trypanosoma gambiense?
In a prokaryotic cell, these enzymes are used in basic energy pathways and are continually synthesized.
What are constitutive enzymes?
This occurs when an enzyme is activated by light or some wave lengths of UV radiation.
What is light repair?
This agent targets different parts of the bacterial cell, depending on the agent.
What is an antibiotic?