Gram Stain
Parts of a Bacteria
Shapes of Bacteria
Simple Stain
And Other Stuff
100
This type of bacteria is purple after a Gram stain.
What is a Gram positive bacteria?
100
This part of the bacteria is responsible for making protein.
What is the ribosome?
100
This is the color of the simple stain.
What is blue?
100
This is used to identify things based on answering questions.
What is a dichotomous key?
200
This type of bacteria is pink after a Gram stain.
What is Gram negative bacteria?
200
These four structures are the same for all bacteria.
What are DNA, cell membrane, ribosomes, and cytoplasm?
200
These are the three shapes of bacteria.
What is sphere, rod, and spiral?
200
This is what makes the bacteria stick to the slide.
What is heat fixing?
200
This is how many options in a dichotomous key.
What is two?
300
Gram positive bacteria have a very thick one.
What is cell wall or peptidoglycan?
300
This part of the bacteria is responsible for movement and whips around like a snake.
What is the flagella?
300
This is the scientific name for sphere.
What is cocci?
300
This is the dye used in a simple stain.
What is methylene blue?
300
This is the first test as part of your identification of your unknown bacteria.
What is the Gram stain?
400
Gram negative bacteria have two of these.
What are membranes?
400
This structure is outside of the bacteria and protects it from the immune system.
What is the capsule?
400
This is the scientific name for a rod shaped bacteria.
What is bacilli?
400
This is the charge of the simple stain.
What is positive?
400
This is a group of bacteria that all came from one single starting bacteria.
What is a colony?
500
These are the four things used in a Gram stain.
What is crystal violet, iodine, decolorizer (ethanol), and safranin.
500
This part of bacteria is a piece of DNA that is transferred between bacteria.
What is a plasmid?
500
This is how you would determine the shape of a bacteria.
What is a simple stain?
500
This is the purpose of the simple stain.
What is to be able to see the shape?
500
This is when one bacteria divides into two identical bacteria.
What is binary fission?