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1
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Microscopy

A

The use/development of special lenses + lens systems to see what ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ‘

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Culturing

๐Ÿ‘ถ๐Ÿ‘ต

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Providing conditions that will allow the growth of microbes

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3
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Broth culture

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A liquid culture that contains the nutrients the microbes need

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4
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Agar culture

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A solid culture containing the nutrients the microbes need

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5
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Extremophiles

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Organisms that live in extreme conditions

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Endospore

โ›‘๐Ÿšช

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A tough structure protecting the dormant bacteria/allows it to become freely living once external conditions are right

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Normal flora

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Microbes that live in or on a healthy living human body

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Obligate aerobes

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organisms that must have oxygen to survive

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Obligate anaerobes

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Organisms that cannot survive for long in the presence of oxygen

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Facultative anaerobes

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Organisms that can perform aerobic respiration but can switch to fermentation when little or no oxygen is present

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Serology

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The study of blood serum and immune responses

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Strain

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A subtype of Organism within the species grouping sometimes called a stereotype

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Nitrogen fixation

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Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into a nitrogen containing molecule that organisms can use

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Lytic cycle

repo. of vi. use host cell bio. res. in lysis of host cell to relese the

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Reproduction of viruses using the host cells bio machinery resulting in lysis of the host cell to release the virons

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Lysogenic cycle

vi nuc acid -> host genome =replu. as host replu

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Viral nucleic acid is inserted into the host genome and replicates as the host replicates

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16
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You want to examine the entire organelle in a cell what would you use TEM or STM

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TEM

17
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Gram positive color

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Blue

18
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Gram negative color

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red

19
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What do you call it when you add a sample of bacteria to a culture

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Inoculating

20
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Difference between Archaea and bacteria

A

Archaea doesnโ€™t have peptidoglycan

(pep-tide-oh-gly-kin)

21
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Four groups of extremophiles

๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿค’๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿšฝ

A

Halophiles (salt- love) thermophiles (hightemp-love) acidophiles (acid-love) methanogens( methane-love)

22
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Main method of reproduction among bacteria

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Binary fission

23
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Lactobacillus

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Rod

24
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Agrococcus

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A sphere

25
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Herbaspirillum

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A spiral

26
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Why are cyanobacteria important to life on this planet

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They produce oxygen 20%

27
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Normal flora becomes toxic but is the same strain what made it become toxic

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Itโ€™s located in the wrong place on the body

28
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gammaproteobacteria

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gram negative

29
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firmicutes

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Gram positive

30
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Nonproteobacteria

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Gram negative

31
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actinobacteria

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gram positive

32
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how many different types of bacteria are needed to take nitrogen from the air and convert it into nitrate

A

three types

33
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in order from smallest to largest

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prions, viruses, bacteria

34
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what macromolecules make up a virus

A

proteins and nucleic acid

35
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what enters the cell to cause infection

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nucleic acid

36
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a virus infects someone but doesnโ€™t produce symptoms for many years

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lysogenic cycle

37
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are all viruses pathogenic

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NO