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Ch.5 Interactive glossary Flashcards

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A bacteriological medium that binds oxygen gas from the atmosphere and creates an environment suitable for anaerobic growth.

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Thioglycollate broth

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A bacterium not inhibited by oxygen gas

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Aerotolerant

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A chemically defined medium in which the nature and quantity of each component is identified.

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Synthetic medium

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A chemically undefined medium in which the nature and quantity of each component has not been identified.

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Complex medium

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A common bacteriological growth medium consisting of beef extract, peptone, and water.

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Nutrient broth

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A common bacteriological growth medium consisting of beef extract, peptone, water, and agar.

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Nutrient agar

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A differential growth medium that encourages the growth of staphylococci by containing a high percentage of salt, which is inhibitory to most other microorganisms.

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Mannitol salt agar (MSA)

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A growth medium containing special nutrients to grow fastidious organisms.

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Enriched medium

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A growth medium in which different species of microorganisms can be distinguished visually.

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Differential medium

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A growth medium that contains ingredients to inhibit certain microorganisms while encouraging the growth of others.

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Selective medium

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A laboratory test in which a statistical evaluation is used to estimate the number of bacterial cells in a sample of fluid; often employed in determinations of coliform bacteria in water.

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Most probable number test

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A measure of the viable cells by counting the number of colonies on a plate; each colony presumably started from one viable cell.

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Colony forming unit

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A microbe that grows best without salt but can tolerate low concentrations.

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Halotolerant

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A microorganism that cannot grow in the presence of added sodium chloride.

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Nonhalophile

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A microorganism that grows at acidic pHs below 4.

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Acidophile

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A microorganism that lives under conditions of high atmospheric pressure.

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Barophile

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A polysaccharide derived from marine seaweed that is used as a solidifying agent in many microbiological culture media.

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Agar

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A portion of a bacterial growth curve encompassing the first few hours of the population’s history when no growth occurs.

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Lag phase

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A procedure to estimate the number of cells in a sample dilution spread on an agar plate.

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Standard plate count

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A process by which a mixed culture can be separated into pure colonies and the colonies isolated

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Pour plate method

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A process by which a mixed culture can be streaked onto an agar plate and pure colonies isolated.

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Streak plate method

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A prokaryote requiring relatively high concentrations of salt (NaCl).

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Halophile

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A prokaryote that has an optimal growth temperature above 80 degrees C.

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Hyperthermophile

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A prokaryote that is alive but cannot be cultured on any known growth medium.

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VBNC

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An accumulation or colony of microorganisms of one species.

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Pure culture

25
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An archaeal organism living at an extremely acidic pH.

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Extreme acidophile

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An asexual process in bacterial and archaeal cells by which a cell divides to form two new cells while maintaining genetic constancy.

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Binary fission

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An extremely resistant dormant cell produced by some gram-positive bacterial species.

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Endospore

27
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An inward pinching of the cell envelope during binary fission.

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Cytokinesis

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An organic substance that helps stabilize the proteins and DNA in a bacterial spore, thereby increasing spore resistance.

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Diplocilinic acid

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An organism that cannot use oxygen gas for metabolism.

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Obligate anaerobe

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An organism that does not require or cannot use oxygen gas for metabolism.

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Anaerobe

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An organism that grows best in an oxygen-reduced environment.

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Microaerophile

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An organism that grows in temperature ranges of 20 degrees C to 40 degrees C.

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Mesophile

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An organism that lives at cold temperature ranges of 0 degrees C to 20 degrees C.

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Psychrophile

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An organism that lives at high temperature ranges of 40 degrees C to 90 degrees C.

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Thermophile

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An organism that lives in environments with high concentrations of salt.

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Halophile

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An organism that requires oxygen gas for metabolism.

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Obligate aerobe

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Each bacterial cell on an agar growth medium that divides to produce a discrete colony.

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Colony forming unit (CFU)

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Estimation of the number of cells by observation with the light microscope.

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Direct microscopic count

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One method to produce pure cultures in hardened agar.

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Pour-plate isolation method

38
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One method to produce pure cultures on an agar plate.

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Streak-plate isolation method

39
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Referring to a prokaryotic cell requiring low oxygen gas and a high concentration of carbon dioxide gas for metabolism.

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Capnophilic

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Referring to an organism that does not require free oxygen.

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Anaerobe

41
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Referring to an organism that grows best in an oxygen-reduced environment.

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Microaerophile

42
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Referring to an organism that grows in the presence or absence of oxygen gas

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Facultative

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Referring to microorganisms that grow at 0 degrees C but have a temperature optima of 20 degrees to 40 degrees C.

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Psychrotolerant

44
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Referring to prokaryotes that are viable but not culturable.

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Viable but not culturable (VBNC)

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The cloudiness of a broth culture due to bacterial growth.

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Turbidity

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The final portion of a bacterial growth curve in which environmental factors overwhelm the population and induce death; also called death phase.

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Decline phase

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The final portion of a bacterial growth curve in which environmental factors overwhelm the population and induce death; also called the decline phase.

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Death phase

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The form of reproduction that maintains genetic constancy while increasing cell numbers.

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Asexual reproduction

49
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The initial portion of a bacterial growth curve during which time the cells are preparing for reproduction (binary fission).

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Lag phase

50
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The portion of a bacterial growth curve in which the reproductive and death rates of cells are equal.

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Stationary phase

51
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The process of spore formation.

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Sporulation

52
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The second portion of a bacterial growth curve, in which active growth leads to a rapid rise in cell number.

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Logarithmic (log) phase

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The third portion of a bacterial growth curve in which the reproductive and death rates of cells are equal.

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Stationary phase

54
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The time interval for a cell population to double in number

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Generation time

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