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Genetics - Answer The science of heredity; the study of how genes carry information, replicate, and are passed on from generation to generation. Chromosome - Answer A double coiled strand of DNA. Prokarya-O only 1 ; Eukarya-X 2-240 pair Genes - Answer A limited site (segment of DNA) on a chromosome that will provide a certain cell function usually protein, enzyme or antibodies; ex lipase, insulin, adrenaline, etc. DNA-Deoxyribonucleic Acid - Answer The genetic information carryi...

Microbiology - Answer Specialized area of biology that deals with tiny life forms that are not readily observed without magnification Six groups of microorganisms - Answer Bacteria Viruses Fungi Protozoa Algae Helminths Bacteriology - Answer The bacteria - small single-celled prokaryotic organisms Mycology - Answer The fungi, a group of eukaryotes that includes both microscopic eukaryotes and larger organisms Protozoology - Answer The protozoa - animal-like and mostly ...

Magnification - Answer -ability to enlarge objects Resolving power - Answer -smallest seperation at which two seperate objects can be distinguished Total Magnification - Answer -of the final image is a product of the seperate magnifying powers of the two lenses -Objective power x Ocular power = total magnification Resolution - Answer -the capacity to distinguish or seperate two adjacent objects and depends on the wavelength of light that forms the image along with characteristi...

Common metabolic products of aerobic bacteria and fungi is known as what? - Answer Antibiotics By inhibiting the other microbes in the same habitat, antibiotic producers have less competition for _____ and ____ - Answer nutrients, space Drugs should kill or inhibit microbial cells without simultaneously damaging host tissues. This process is known as what? - Answer Selectively toxic _____ is effective on a small range of microbes - Answer Narrow-spectrum ____ has the greatest...

What is metabolism? - Answer all chemical and physical workings of a cell What are the two types of metabolism? - Answer Catabolism and Anabolism What is catabolism? - Answer degradative; breaks the bonds of larger molecules forming smaller molecules; releases energy What is anabolism? - Answer biosynthesis; process that forms larger macromolecules from smaller molecules; requires energy input What are the end products to catabolism? - Answer CO2 and H2O What are en...

dust and soil - Answer What is the usual habitat of endospore-forming bacteria that are agents of disease nonpathogens - Answer Most bacilli species are anaerobic - Answer Most clostridial diseases require a _____ environment for their development myonecrosis, food poisoning (both A+B) - Answer Clostridium perfingens causes spinal interneurons - Answer The action of tetanus exotoxin is on the neuromuscular junction - Answer The action of botulinum toxin is on the Er...

Which of the following is not considered a microorganism? - Answer d. mushroom An area of microbiology that is concerned with the occurrence of disease in human populations is - Answer c. epidemiology Which process involves the deliberate alteration of an organism's genetic material? - Answer d. recombinant DNA A prominent difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells is the - Answer c. presence of a nucleus in eukaryotes Which of the following parts was absent fro...

Foundations in Microbiology Talaro Chapter 004 Quiz Test Bank 2023 GRADED 100% Eukaryotic cells are found in correct answers animals, plants, fungi, protists Organelles correct answers Enclosed by cell membrane, components that involve metabolism, nutrition, synthesis. Bacteria are a category of prokaryotes with cell walls made of correct answers peptidoglycan Appendages for Motility correct answers flagella and axial filaments Appendages for attachment sites or channels correct answer...

Test bank for Talaro’s Foundations in Microbiology 11th Edition By Barry Chess

Foundations In Microbiology 10Th Edition By Kathleen Park Talaro – Test Bank Sample Test CHAPTER 1 1. What does it mean to say microbes are ubiquitous? From the Latin ubique, meaning “everywhere”, it is a succinct way of saying that microbes exist everywhere throughout the natural world, even areas with extreme conditions. Other ways to express this idea are the terms universally widespread and constantly present. The only environments that are microbe- free have probably been ...