Microbe Lifestyle

Question 1

eats inorganic material

Answer 1

autotroph

Question 2

eats organic materal

Answer 2

heterotroph

Question 3

eats dead/decaying material (organic material)

Answer 3

saprophyte

Question 4

eats off living organisms

Answer 4

parasite

Question 5

presence or absence of O2

Answer 5

facultative

Question 6

facultative : prefers O2

Answer 6

facultative aerobe

Question 7

facultative : prefers NO O2

Answer 7

facultative anaerobe

Question 8

only one environment, not the other

Answer 8

obligate

Question 9

obligate : only in O2

Answer 9

obligate aerobe

Question 10

obligate : only without O2

Answer 10

obligate anaerobe

Question 11

reduced O2, eg: high altitude plants

grown in candle jar culture

Answer 11

microaerophilic

Question 12

2 populations living together - one or both benefit

Answer 12

symbiosis

Question 13

2 populations living together - both benefit

Answer 13

mutualism

Question 14

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

Answer 14

synergism

Question 15

2 populations living together - one benefits, other is unaffected

Answer 15

commensalism

Question 16

transfer of disease from animal to human eg: anthrax “woolsorter’s dz”
respiratory transmission

Answer 16

zoonosis