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delgado microbiology 211 final exam
practice questions and answers
Lister - Answer✔️✔️-English surgeon who sterilized his equipment
Modern cell theory - Answer✔️✔️-All known living things are made up
of one or more cells
Cells are the basic units of all living things
Cell arise from preexisting cells by cell division
Cells contain hereditary info that is passed on during cell division
Prion - Answer✔️✔️-protein infectious particle
transmission electron microscope (TEM) - Answer✔️✔️-high
magnification (100,000X)
Gram positive bacteria stain - Answer✔️✔️-purple; Bacillus - rod
chemotaxis - Answer✔️✔️-movement towards or away from a
particular chemical
attractant - Answer✔️✔️-chemical is desirable and the bacteria
moves towards it
If Eukaryotic and bacterial organisms were the same, then most
medicines and treatments would be toxic to humans? T/F? -
Answer✔️✔️-True
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mesophiles - Answer✔️✔️-most common group, prefer warm from
~20-40ºC but not too hot (Goldilocks)
obligate anaerobes - Answer✔️✔️-cannot live in aerobic
environments, oxygen gas is toxic, just trace amounts of O2 will kill
these bacteria
log (exponential phase) - Answer✔️✔️-cells are growing at a constant
rate, doubling every generation
metabolites - Answer✔️✔️-materials that cells need in order to grow
and reproduce
stationary phase - Answer✔️✔️-growth phase where death equals
birth; when birth and death rates are equal
sterilization - Answer✔️✔️-killing or removing all microbes including
live bacteria, eukaryotic microbes, bacterial endospores, and all
viruses
nosocomial infections - Answer✔️✔️-hospital acquired infections
autoclave - Answer✔️✔️-uses wet heat/heated steam to kill
pathogens
Auxotroph - Answer✔️✔️-mutant cell that requires an additional
growth factor
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