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Chapter 3- Microbial Growth And Nutrition Flashcards

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1
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All essential elements in microorganisms are:

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Nitrogen
Carbon
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Phosphorus
Sulfur
Selenium
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Examples of macromolecules and give example of their monomers

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Protein, amino acids
Lipids, fatty acids and glycerol
Carbohydrates , sugars
nucleic acids, nucleotides

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Macromolecule consist of CHONS?

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Protein

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Macromolecule consist of CHON?

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Carbohydrates

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Macromolecule consist of CHONP?

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Nucleic Acids

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Macromolecule consist of CHOP?

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Lipids

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Other macronutrients that serve as co-factors? Give examples.

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Mg stabilize me branes
K for protein synthesis
Ca cell wall
Fe ^2+ for cytochrome carriers

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Are non protein element required for enzymatic function.

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Metabolic co factors

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Micronutrients and examples

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Elements required in very small amount, serve as co factors for enzymes

Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, Mn, Mo

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Required to make selenocysteine

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Se

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Are small organic molecules required for growth and give three classes?

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Growth factors

Amino acids
Purines and pyrimidines
Vitamins

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Growth factor for protein sythesis

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Amino acids

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Growth factor for building Blocks of dna and rna

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Purines and pyrimidines

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Small molecules used to make organic cofactors

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Vitamins

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Macronutrients

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Elements required in large amount to make macromolecules

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What is a limiting nutrient?

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When it runs out, growth stop despite of presence if other nutrients

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Organisms are placed into 2 groups on how they obtain C

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Heterotrophs and autotrophs

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Use organic carbons

One or more C is reduced

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Heterotrophs

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19
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Used inorganic carbons as their sole source of carbon. Requires energy to assimilate it.

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Autotrophs (through photosythesis)

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20
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Element provided as salts?

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Inorganic N

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21
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Inorganic N must be reduced to _____?

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NH3

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Provided as N rich organic molecules. Does not need to be reduced.

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Organic N

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23
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Atmospheric N2 is reduced to 2NH3 by?

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Nitrogen fixation

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24
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Form of nitrogen use to make amino acids

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NH3

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25
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Found in water and organic media, no specific nutrients

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H

O

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26
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Usually provided as phosphate salts (PO4 ^3-)

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Phosphorus

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27
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In what system is PO4 3- is always limiting?

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Fresh water system

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Also provided in form of salts, and must be refuced to S2 to make amino acids

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Inorganic S

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29
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Pre made amino acids (cysteine and methionine). Less energy to make

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Organic S

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30
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Majority of macromolecules

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Carbon

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31
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6 classes of culture media are:

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Defined
Minimal
Complex
Differential
Selective
Enriched
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32
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A media where exact composition is known

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Defined medium

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33
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Media useful for studying metabolism

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Defined

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34
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Defined medium that provides MINIMUM nutritional requirements for growth ( no growth factors)

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Minimal

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Medium where exact composition is not known. Supply variety of growth factors.

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Complex

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36
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Medium often made from meat or yeast extracts

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Complex medium

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37
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Give example of complex medium

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T soy broth and plates

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38
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differential medium

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Allows different bacteria to be distinguished

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39
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Give example of differential media

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Blood agar ( t soy plate with 5% sheep’s blood)

40
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Medium that allows differentiation of hemolytic bacteria

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Blood agar

41
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Incomplete destruction of blood cells in hemolytic bacteria

A

A

42
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Complete destruction of Blood cells in. Hemolytic bactetia

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B

43
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Define y in hemolytic bacteria

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No detsruction

44
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Selective medium

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Contains ingredients that inhibit growth or unwanted microbes. Allows only specific microbes to grow

45
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Example of selective medium

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Mannitol salt agar

46
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Medium supplemented with special nutrients to encourage growth of fastidious bacteria.
Requires many growth factors

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Enriched medium

47
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Example of an enriched medium

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Blood agar and chocolate agar

48
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Metabolism

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The sum of total chemical reaction that occurs in cells

49
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Catabolic rxn (catabolism) and give example

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Energy releasing metabolic rxn

Eg: fermentation and respiration

50
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Anabolic reaction and give example

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Energy requiring metabolic rxn

Eg: biosynthesis

51
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Microorganism grouped into energy classes depending on ELECTRON AND ENERGY SOURCE

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Chemoorganotrophs
Chemolitotrophs
Phototrophs

52
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Microorganism grouped into their CARBON SOURCE

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Heterotroph

Autotroph

53
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Energy from chemical rxn involving ORGANIC MATERIAL

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Chemoorganotroph

54
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Energy from INORGANIC chemical reactions

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Chemolitotrophs

55
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Phototrophs

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Energy from light

56
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Heterotrophs

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Use organic carbon as their main source of carbon for building cell carbon and biomass

57
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Autotrophs (primary producers)

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Use inorganic carbon or CO2 to synthesize cell carbon

58
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Binary fission

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Cell division following enlargement of a cell, twice its minimum size.
Increase in cell numbers

59
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Generation time

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Time requires for a cell to double its number

60
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Generation time depends on:

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Growth medium
Incubation conditions (carbon source, ph, temp)
61
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Exponential growth

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Growth of microbial population in which cell numbers double in at specific time interval.

62
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Formula For exponential growth

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Nt= Ni x 2^n

63
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Rate of increase in population number of biomass

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Growth rate (k)

64
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The time it takes for a cell to become 2 cells

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Generation time

65
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A closed system microbial culture of fixed volume

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Batch culture

66
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Four phase of growth curve

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Lag
Log
Stationary
Death

67
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The interval between the inoculation of a culture and beginning of growth (increase in cell numbers)

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Lag phase

68
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Cells in this phase is at their healthiest

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Exponential phase

69
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Metabolically active, growth rate of population is zero.

Essential nutrient is used up or waste products accumulate in the medium

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Stationary phase

70
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Cells in this phase dies (but not all bactetia, some survive and form spores)

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Death phase

71
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Continuous culture

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An open system of microbial culture of fixed volume

72
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Most common type of continuous culture

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Chemostat

73
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Rate at which fresh medium is pump in and spent medium is pump out

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Dilution rate

74
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Controls the population size and the growth rate in chemostat

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Concentration of limiting nutrients

75
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Microbial cells can be enumerated by direct microscopic observations using a ______ counting chamber

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Petroff-Hausser

76
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Two types of microscopic counts which cells can be enumerated

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Petroff hausser

Flow cytometer

77
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A second method of cell enumeration in liquid samples, using laser beams, fluorescent dyes, and electronics

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Flow cytometer

78
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Viable counts or plate count

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Measurements of living cells capable of growing to form population

79
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Two main ways to perform plate counts or viable counts

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Spread method

Pour plate method

80
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Direct microscopic counts of natural samples reveal far more organisms than those recoverable on plates

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The great plate anomaly

81
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Turbidity measurements

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Indirect, rapid, and useful Methods in measuring microbial growth.

82
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Most often turbidity is measured with a ________ and measurement is referred as ________.

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Spectrophotometer, Optical density

83
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A specific aliquot (volume) of cells are concentrated, washed to remove media components, concentrated and dried

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Total mass of cells ( dry cell weight)

84
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The major environmental factor controlling microbial growth

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Temperature

85
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Cardinal temperature

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The minimum, optimum, and maximum temperature at which an organism grows

86
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Temperature classes of microorganism ( microorganism can be classified into groups by their temperature optima

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Psychrophile
Mesophile
Thermophile
Hyperthermophile

87
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Microorganism with optima at low temperature. They inhabit permanently cold environment (eg: deep ocean, acrtic, atarctic environment).

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Psychrophile

Less than 20

88
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Microorganism with optima at midrange temperature
Found in _____ animals
In _____ environments
In ______ lattitudes

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Mesophile
20-40
Warm blooded animals
Terrestrial and aquatic
Temperate and tropical
89
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Microorganism with optima at high temperature

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Thermophile

40-80

90
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Microorganism with optima at very high temperature

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Hyperthermophile

Greater than 80

91
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Organism that grow at very hot or very cold temp.

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Extremophiles

92
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Psychrotolerant

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Organism that can grow at 0 but have optima of 20-40.

93
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An example of hyperthermophile that can grow at 122

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Methanopyrus kandleri

94
Q

Widely used in industrial microbiology. In what way?

A

Hyperthermophile
Tag polymerase for PCR
Hydrolytic enzymes

95
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Microorganism that may be the clsoest descendants of ancient microbes

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Hyperthermophile

96
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ph does most microorganism grow

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Ph 6-8 (neutral ph)

97
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Types of microorganism depending on their ph

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Neutrophile
Acidophalse
Alkaliphiles

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