Microbe Lifestyle

Question 1

Autograph

Answer 1

Eats INORGANIC material

Question 2

Heterotroph

Answer 2

Eats ORGANIC material

Question 3

Saphrophyte

Answer 3

Eats DEAD / decaying material (organic)

Question 4

Parastite

Answer 4

Eats off LIVING organisms

Question 5

Facultative

Answer 5

Presence OR absence of 02 - able to either way

F. Aerobe: prefers 02, but can live without
F. Anaerobe: prefers NO 02, but can live with

Question 6

Obligate

Answer 6

Only one environment, not the other

O. Aerobe: ONLY 02
O. Anaerobe: ONLY w/o 02

Question 7

Microaerophilic !!

Answer 7

Reduced 02
Ex: high altitude plants

Grown in CANDLE JAR CULTURE!!!!
best at 5% 02

Question 8

Symbiosis

Answer 8

2 populations living together - one or both benefit

Question 9

Mutualism

Answer 9

2 populations living together - BOTH benefit

Question 10

Synergism

Answer 10

2 populations living together - both benefit and both accomplish what neither can do alone

Question 11

Commensalism

Answer 11

2 populations living together - one benefits, other unaffected

Question 12

Zoonism !!!

Answer 12

transfer of disease from ANIMAL to HUMAN

ex: Woolsorter’s Disease

Anthrax (Gram +)
“Sporulates”
Respiratory transmission

Question 13

Monotrichus

Answer 13

SINGLE flagella on ONE pole

Question 14

Lophotrichus

Answer 14

MULTIPLE flagella on ONE pole

Question 15

Amphitrichus

Answer 15

BOTH flagella on BOTH poles

Question 16

Peritrichus

Answer 16

Around - flagella EVERYWHERE