Lab Flashcards by Sean Belton

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Commensal

A

Host unaffected

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Resevoir

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Source of infection outside host

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Tree shape on slant

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Arborescent

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Thick band on slant

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Filiform

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Thick band with undulations on slant

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Echinulate

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Thin branching strands on slant

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Rhizoidal

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Layer on broth surface

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Pellicle

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Stuff at bottom of broth

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Sediment

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Strands in margin

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filamentous

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Wiggly margin of colony

A

Erose

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Pin point colonies on agar

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Punctiform

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Lens shaped colonies in the agar

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Lenticulate growth

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Dilution factor

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Final/Initial

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Dilution

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Initial/Final

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Psychrophile temps

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down to 0 optimum at 10-15

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thermophile temp

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Grow at 55+

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Can survive high temps but doesn’t thrive

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Thermoduric

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Thermal death point

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Temperature to kill everything in 10 minutes

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optimum UV wavelength for killing bacteria

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260 nm

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pyrimidines

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Cytosine and thymine

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Countable range of colonies

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30-300

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2 types of UV repair Enzymes

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Dark reactive and photoreactive

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Enzymes that work outside the cell

A

Exoenzymes

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Enzymes that work inside the cell

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Endoenzymes

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Enzyme that breaks down hydrogen peroxide

A

Catalase

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2 Enzymes that produce H2S

A

Cysteine Desulfhydrase and thiosulfate reductase

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Enzyme that breaks down urea

A

urease

Q

Final enzyme in anarobic ETC with nitrate as a TEA

A

Reductase

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Enzyme that breaks down gelatin

A

Gelatinase

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What is gelatin made of?

A

Proteins, partial breakdown of collagen

Q

Most UV resistant bacteria we used

A

Bacillus Subtilis

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Bacillus Stearothermophilus growth temp

A

55C

Q

Bacteria that produces H2S

A

Proteus Vulgaris

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Producer of prodigiosin pigment

A

Serratia Marcescens

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3 genera that don’t produce catalase despite living with O2

A

Streptococcus, Enterococcus and lactobacillus

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species that reduce nitrate

A

P. Vulgaris and P.Aeruginosa