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What are the ways we can classify bacteria?

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Size, shape, staining characteristics, antigenic features

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What does bacillus mean in terms of bacteria shape?

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Rod shaped

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What does coccus mean in terms of the shape of bacteria?

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Spherical

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What does spiral mean in terms of shape of bacteria?

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Cork screw

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Why do bacteria stain different colours?

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Due to the different chemical composition of cell wall

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What colour do gram positive turn when gram stained? Why?

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Purple - thick layer of peptidoglycan

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What is the first step of gram staining?

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Crystal violet binds to the peptidoglycan layer

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What is the 2nd step of gram staining?

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Iodine complex binds crystal violet to peptidoglycan more strongly

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What is the 3rd step of gram staining?

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Gram negative lose their outer lipopolysaccharide layer and crystal violet and iodine complex is washed away

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What’s the 4th step of gram staining?

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Safranin (counterstain) turns gram negative red

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What are some nutrients that are supplied in media that re required?

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Carbon compounds, glucose, nitrogen, growth factors (minerals and vitamins)

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What’s the definition of a obligate aerobe?

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A microorganism/bacteria that grow in they presence of oxygen

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What is the definition of an obligate anaerobe?

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Microorganism/bacteria that grow in the absence of oxygen

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What is the definition of a facultative anaerobe?

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A microorganism/bacteria that can grow with or without oxygen

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What is aseptic technique used to prevent?

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Contamination of environment by microbes
Contamination of the culture by unwanted microbes from the environment

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How do you prevent contamination to apparatus?

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Sterile all apparatus, sterile work surfaces, handle carefully

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What is an autoclave?

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Sealed container where glass and metal equipment is sterile using heat

18
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What temperature does the autoclave reach? Why? How long?

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121 degrees, that’s when steam is produced, 15 minutes

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Why is the autoclave in pressure?

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Pressure helps the stream reach the equipment

20
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When securing the Petri dish with tape, why not put it all the way around?

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Anaerobe conditions could be created and the bacteria may be obligate aerobe

21
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What is a viable count?

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Living cells only (plating and counting colonies)

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What is a total count?

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Living and dead cells

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Why do we serial dilute?

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To produce clear and distinct colonies that aren’t clumped

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