Microbe Growth Vocab

Question 1

Chemoautotrophs

Answer 1

take their energy from chemicals and their carbon from inorganic materials

Question 2

Chemoheterotrophs

Answer 2

take there energy from chemicals and their carbon from organic materials

Question 3

Photoautotrophs

Answer 3

take their energy from light and their carbon from inorganic materials

Question 4

Photoheterotrophs

Answer 4

take their energy from light and their carbon from organic material

Question 5

Saprobes

Answer 5

decomposer microbes

Question 6

Parasites

Answer 6

pathogenic, nutrients from living tissues

Question 7

Simple Diffusion

Answer 7

substances move on a gradient from high to low concentration

Question 8

Facilitated diffusion

Answer 8

molecules bind to receptor and are carried to the other side of the membrane according to the gradient

Question 9

Carrier mediated active diffusion

Answer 9

molecules are pumped in or out by a special receptor

Question 10

Group Translocation

Answer 10

molecules are transformed into useful substances as it crosses across the membrane

Question 11

Bulk Transport

Answer 11

Endocytosis- transport of large cells, particles, or liquids by engulfment

Question 12

Obligate Aerobes

Answer 12

grows only in O2

Question 13

Obligate Anerobes

Answer 13

are killed by O2

Question 14

Facultative Anaerobes

Answer 14

can grow with or without O2

Question 15

Aerotolerant Anaerobes

Answer 15

unaffected by O2

Question 16

Microaerophile

Answer 16

grows with specific amount of O2

Question 17

Mesophiles

Answer 17

microbes that grow best in moderate temperatures

Question 18

Psychrophiles

Answer 18

microbes that grow best in cold temperatures

Question 19

Thermophiles

Answer 19

Microbes that grow best in high temperatures

Question 20

Osmophiles

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microbes that prefer high solute concentration (i.e. hypertonic solutions)

Question 21

Barophiles

Answer 21

require high atmospheric pressure

Question 22

Symbiotic

Answer 22

Close nutritional relationship that is essential for survival of at least one organism

Question 23

Synergism

Answer 23

Organisms cooperate and share nutrients

Question 24

Antagonism

Answer 24

some organisms are inhibited by others

Question 25

Capriophile

Answer 25

Loves high CO2 environments