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Exam 1 Material Flashcards

1
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Microbiology

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Study of entities too small to be seen with the unaided human eye

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2
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This person developed a taxonomic system for naming plants and animals and grouping similar organisms together

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Carolus Linnaeus

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3
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Genus species

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Binomial nomenclature

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4
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What are the three domains?

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Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya

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5
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What are the four subdivisions of the eukarya domain?

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Fungi
Protista
Algae
Animalia

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6
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What is the difference between bacteria and archaea?

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Archaea do NOT cause disease

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7
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What did Leeuwenhoek term what he saw under magnification?

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Animalcules

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8
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On the ancestral cell line, which domains branch off the same root?

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Archaea and Eukarya

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9
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Another term for spontaneous generation

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Abiogenesis

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10
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What is spontaneous generation?

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Living organisms can arise from nonliving matter

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11
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Who proposed spontaneous generation?

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Aristotle

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12
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Who challenged spontaneous generation with meat in a flask?

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Francesco Redi

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13
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Who was a supporter of spontaneous generation?

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John Needham

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14
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Who challenged spontaneous generation by boiling broth in a flask?

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Lazarro Spellanzani

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15
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Who is the father of microbiology?

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Leewenhoek

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16
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Who is the father of MODERN microbiology?

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Pasteur

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17
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Who ended spontaneous generation by preforming experiments in a swan neck flask?

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Pasteur

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18
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What is the sugar fungus that makes beer?

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Saccaromyces cerevisiae

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19
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Who developed the germ theory of disease?

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Pasteur 1857

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20
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Study of causation of disease

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Etiology

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21
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Who discovered the cause of anthrax and tuberculosis?

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Koch

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22
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What is the bacteria that causes anthrax?

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Bacillus anthracis

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23
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What is the bacteria that causes TB?

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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24
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What was a technique of Koch that we use today?

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Method of isolation - agar

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25
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What are Koch’s postulates used for?

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Steps that must be taken to prove the cause of any infectious disease

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26
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What are Koch’s four postulates?

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Suspected agent must be found in every case of disease and absent in healthy hosts, agent must be isolated and grown outside host, when agent is introduced into a healthy susceptible host they must get the disease, and same agent must be found in the diseased experimental host

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27
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Hand washing

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Semmelweis

Weis - Wash

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28
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Antiseptic technique

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Lister

think Listerine

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29
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Cleanliness techniques in nursing

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Nightingale

prof Nightingale dressed as a nurse

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30
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Infection control/field of epidemiology

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Snow

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31
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Smallpox vaccine/field of immunology

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Jenner

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32
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Magic Bullets/field of chemotherapy

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Ehrlich

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33
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Cadaver particles caused what disease in women in labor?

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Puerperal fever

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34
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Study of the occurrence, distribution, and spread of disease in humans

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Epidemiology

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35
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John Snow was the foundation for what two branches of micro?

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Infection control

Epidemiology

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36
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Chemicals are studied for their potential to destroy pathogenic organisms

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Chemotherapy

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37
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A condition acquired from eating infected beef

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variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

38
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In vCJD, the brain is full of sponge-like holes known as what?

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Spongiform encephalopathy

39
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What are the four processes of life?

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Growth
Reproduction
Responsiveness
Metabolism

40
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What is the root of something that responds to the environment?

41
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What are the two main features of prokaryotes?

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Lack nucleus

Circular DNA

42
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What are the two main features of eukaryotes?

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Have nucleus

Linear DNA

43
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What are two types of glycocalyces on bacterial cells?

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Capsule and slime layer

44
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Firmly attached to cell surface and may prevent bacteria from being recognized by host

45
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Loosely attached to cell surface and provides a sticky surface

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Slime layer

46
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Responsible for movement of some bacteria

47
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When a bacteria runs, what is the movement like?

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Straight line

48
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When a bacteria tumbles, what is the movement like?

49
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What are bacterial cell walls composed of?

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Peptidoglycan

50
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What are the two basic types of bacterial cell walls?

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Gram + and Gram -

51
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Gram + have a thick layer of peptidoglycan and appear what color?

52
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What are the unique polyalcohols in Gram + cells called which provide rigidity?

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Teichoic acids

53
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Gram - bacteria have a thin layer of peptidoglycan and appear what color?

54
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Bacterial cytoplasmic membranes maintain what two gradients?

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Concentration and electrical gradient

55
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List 3 passive processes

A

Diffusion
Facilitated diffusion
Osmosis

56
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List 2 active processes

A

Active transport

Group translocation

57
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Substance is chemically modified during transport and no longer a viable candidate to go back out of the membrane

A

Group translocation

58
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Osmosis goes from what concentration to what concentration?

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From low to high concentration

59
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There is the same concentration inside and outside the cell

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Isotonic solution

60
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There is more concentration inside the cell, so water rushes in resulting in rupture of the cell

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Hypotonic solution

61
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There is more concentration outside the cell, resulting in crenation or dehydration

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Hypertonic solution

62
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Unique structures produced by some bacteria that are a defensive strategy against unfavorable conditions

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Endospores

63
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What is the size prokaryotic ribosomes?

64
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What are the two subunits of prokaryotic ribosomes?

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30S and 50S

65
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Do archaea cell walls contain peptidoglycan?

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Do NOT have peptidoglycan

66
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Animals and most protozoan cells lack this

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Cell walls

67
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Cells using endocytosis will form this to bring something into the cell

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Pseudopodia

68
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Solid imported into cell

A

Phagocytosis

69
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Liquid imported into cell

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Pinocytosis

70
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Eukaryotic flagella do not rotate but do this instead

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Undulate rhythmically

71
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Do prokaryotic cells have cilia?

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No prokaryotic cells have cilia

72
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What is the size of eukaryotic ribosomes?

73
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What is the size of 2 subunits of eukaryotic ribosomes?

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40S and 60S

74
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In the mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotes, what is the size of their ribosomes?

75
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Plants, algae, most fungi, and prokaryotes lack this, a structure that plays a role in mitosis

A

Centrioles

76
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This is the control center of the cell

77
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This functions as the transport system in the eukaryotic cell

A

Endoplasmic reticulum

78
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This organelle receives and packages molecules but is not present in all eukaryotic cells

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Golgi body

79
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This is the second most important organelle in the cell that is known as the powerhouse of the cell

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Mitochondria

80
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Prokaryotes lack this organelle which is a light-harvesting structure

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Chloroplasts

81
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The shortest distance between two points on a specimen that can still be distinguished by the observer as separate entities

A

Resolution

82
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Differences in intensity between two objects, or between an object and background

83
Q

Name 4 simple stains

A

Crystal violet
Safranin
Methylene blue
Malachite green

84
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Name 3 differential stains

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Gram stain
Acid-fast stain
Endospore stain

85
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Name 2 special stains

A

Negative stain

Flagellar stain

86
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List the 4 steps of Gram staining

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Flood with crystal violet
Iodine = mordant
Ethanol and acetone solution
Safranin = counter stain

87
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This type of bacteria does not have peptidoglycan cell walls but a waxy mycolic acid content instead

A

Mycobacteria

88
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Due to the waxy walls of mycobateria, what staining procedure is used?

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Acid-Fast stain

89
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What colors are produced in acid-fast stains?

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Red- acid fast

Blue- negative for acid fast

90
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What colors are produced in endospore staining?

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Green- endospore

Red- vegetative cell

91
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Series of paired statements where only one of two “either/or” choices applies to any particular organism

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Dichotomous keys

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