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What are the 4 physical growth requirements? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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1. gaseous environment
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2. temperature
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3. pH
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4. osmotic pressure
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what effects the availability of water? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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temperature


What is the most favourable osmotic environment for a cell? Why? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-isotonic - same conc. inside and outside of cell,
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that's always tries to get to equilibrium.
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What type of bacteria grow best between -5-20 degrees? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-psychrophiles


What type of bacteria grow best between -3-35 degrees? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-psychrotrophs

,What temperature do mesophiles grow best at? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-14 - 44 degrees | | |




What type of bacteria grow best between 43-80 degrees? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Thermophiles?


What temperature do thermophiles grow best at? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-65-105 degrees |




What are nanhalphiles? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NaCl conc <1 favoured
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What's a moderate halophile? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NaCl conc 0.4-
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3.4 favoured
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What's a halotolerant? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NaCl conc 0-3 favoured
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What's a extreme halophile? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NaCl conc above
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2 favoured
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What are organisms called when they are organised according to their
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energy source? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. phototrophs
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2. chemotrophs
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or |

,1. lithotroph
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2. organotroph
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What is an phototroph? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-energy source from
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ligh


What is a chemotroph? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-energy source is
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chemicals


What are organisms called when they are organised according to their
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carbon source? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. autotroph
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2. heterotrpho
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What is an autotroph? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-uses only inorganic C
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(CO2)


What is a heterotroph? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-uses organic C
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What is a lithotroph? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-electron source from
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reduced inorganic substances
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What is a organotroph? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-electron source from
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reduced organic substances
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, What are the elements that the microbes need a lot of? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-macronutrients


What are the macronutrients? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
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N
P
S
O
H


What are the micronutrients? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Zn
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Co
Mo
Cu
Mn


What are the implications of bacteria having a slow MGT? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Implications for drug therapy: | | |




- the bacteria is taken up very slowly
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- patient would need to be treated for longer
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- use up a lot of the patient's energy.
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