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Unit 2: Chapter 6 Bacterial Growth, Nutrition, And Differentiation Flashcards

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What are essential nutrients?

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They are substances bacterial cells require for growth but must acquire from their environment. Many bacteria require only elemental building blocks to produce all chemical compounds required for life.

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What are elements that are essential?

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  1. Carbon
  2. Nitrogen
  3. Phosphorus
  4. Hydrogen
  5. Oxygen
  6. Sulfer
  7. Magnesium
  8. Iron
  9. Potassium
  10. Trace elements (needed in small amounts) such as cobalt, copper, and zinc
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What are growth factors?

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Growth factors are compounds that cannot be made by the organism, so they must be added to the culture media before they will grow

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What are carbon compounds?

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  • they are esential for all forms of life
  • are used as food, which stores energy and is a source of cellular building material for making biomass
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Autotrophs

Carbon source for biomass

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Make their own carbon compounds started with CO2
CO2 is fixed and assembled into organic molecules

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Heterotrophs

Carbon source for biomass

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Obtain carbon compounds from other ogranisms
Acquired from outside the cell

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What is light and chemical compounds used as?

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A source of energy by living things

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T or F: Enegry is not an essential need for all forms of life

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False; Energy is essential for all forms of life

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Phototrophs

Energy source

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Use light as an energy source

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Chemotrophs

Energy source

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Use potential energy stored in chemical compounds as an energy source

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Lithotrophs

Electron source

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Use inorganic chemical compounds

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Organotrophs

Electron source

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Use organic chemical compounds

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Which essential nutrient is unavailable for use by most organisms?

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Nitrogen (N2)

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How do you make nitrogen into its usable form?

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In order for nitrogen to become usable, it has to be “fixed” or converted to ammonium ions (NH4+) which is a form that can be used for biosynthesis.

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What is a nitrogen-fixing plant symbiont that forms bacteria-filled nodules on roots?

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Rhizobium

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What is the nitrogen fixation process?

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  1. Nitrogen is removed from the air and converted to ammonia by nitrogen fixers (rhizobium)
  2. Ammonia is converted to nitrate by nitrifiers (lithotrophs)
  3. Nitrogen is removed from nitrate and converted to nitrogen gas by denitrfiers (aerobic respires)
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What precentage of nitrogen is in the air?

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80%, but it is not useable

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Culture Medium

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  • Nutrients prepared for microbial growth
  • Have to be sterile (not contain living microbes)
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Inoculum

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Microbes introduced into medium

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What are the two types of media?

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  1. Complex media
  2. Chemically defined media
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Complex Media

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  • Does not tell you the exact contents of the media
  • Extracts and digests of yeast, meat, or plants

Eg; Nutrient broth/ Agar

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Chemically Defined Media

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Exact chemical composition is known

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Which type of media is used when the bacteria needs special nutrients?

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Chemically defined media

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Agar

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  • complex polysaccharide
  • used as solidifying agent for culture media in petri plates and slants
  • generally not metabolized by microbes
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At what temperature does agar become a liquid?
100 degrees C
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At what temperature does agar become a solid?
~ 40 degrees C
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What are the two media types?
1. Selective media 2. Differential media
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Selective media
Compounds in the media prevent some type of bacteria from growing, **favoring the growth of one specefic type**
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Differential media
Compounds in the media are **metabolized differently** which allows you to have many different growth types
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What is a culture?
It is an artifical growth envrionment
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What must be provided so that bacteria can grow in a culture?
The natural envrionment of the bacteria Things such as: 1. Nutrition 2. Growth temperature 3. pH 4. Pressure 5. Osmotic Balance 6. O2 and other gasses to serve as electron acceptors
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Bacterial growth is measured at the
population level
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What is growth rate?
It is a measyure of the number of cells in a popualtion over time
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How do most bacteria reproduce?
By binary fission
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T or F; binary fission can be **symmetrical** or **asymmetrical**
True
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How do eukaryotic microbes divide?
by mitosis
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What is generation time?
- The time required to carry out the whole binary fission process - Time can vary - It may also tell you how quickly you might develop symptoms depending on immune response
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Binary Fission Steps | Just a picture
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Arithmetic vs. Exponential Plotting | Picture from the powerpoint
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What is the bacterial growth curve?
It shows the change in growth rate over time
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Growth Cycle Phases
1. Lag Phase 2. Log Phase 3. Stationary Phase 4. Death Phase
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Growth Cycle: Lag Phase
- Bacteria are preparing their cell machinery for growth - Cells are not currently growing in this phase
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Growth Cycle: Log Phase
- Growth approximates an exponential curve (straight line, on a logarithmic scale) - This is the phase where you want to try to kill the bacteria because it is able to absorb everything in this phase
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Growth Cycle: Stationary Phase
- Cells stop growing and shut down their growth machinery while turning on stress responses to help retain viability - The number of cells dividing equals the number of cells dying - Develop reistance to antibiotics and host defenses 1. make endospores 2. thicken cell walls 3. form capsules 4. fight for nutrients 5. have flagella move them to a more desirable location
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Growth Cycle: Death phase
- Cells begin to die at an exponential rate
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T or F; Dying cells can provide nutrients to other cells
True
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Do bacterial cells every **completely** die off?
No, they **do not** completely die
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Batch Culture/ Closed System
Carries out fermentation with a limited amount of nutrients
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Continuous Culture/ Open System
Continuously carries out fermentation and is constantly providing nutrients, medium, etc
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In addition to food, bacterial growth considerations include:
1. Temperature 2. Pressure 3. Osmotic Balance 4. pH level | **ALL** bacteria require these physcial conditions for growth
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T or F; bacteria all require the SAME physiologic conditons
False; "Normal" physiologic condtions vary in differnt types of bacteria
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Growth vs Tolerance
- Tolerance: Conditions in which the organisms can survive, but CANNOT grow - Growth: Conditions that allow for the organsim to growth; end in "*-phile*"
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Minimum Growth Temperature
The **lowest** temperature that permits a microbes continued gwoth and metabolism
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Optimum Growth Temperature
- The temperature that allows the fastest rate of growth and metabolism - "-phile" - This is where you get **max** amount of growth
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Maximum Growth Temperature
The **maximum** temperature at which growth and metabolism can proceed
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Growth Rate with Temperatures | Just a picture
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Psychrophile
- Most abundent - Cold loving - Optimal growth at cold temperatures - Inhabit snowfields, polar ice, and the deep ocean - Dies by ~20C
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Thermophiles
- Grows best at higher than normal temperatures - Live in soil and water associated with volcanic activity, compost piles, and in habittats directly exposed to the sun - Survive in thermal springs
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Hyperthermophiles
- Grows best at **extreme** temperatures between 80-120C - Extreme Thermophiles - Survive in thermal springs
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Mesophiles
- Grows best at **moderate** temperatures - Inhabit animals and plants as well as soil and water in temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions
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What are most diease causing organisms? | Psychrophile, thermophiles, hyperthermophile, or mesophile?
Mesophile
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Temperature Chart | Just a picture
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What are thermophiles/ hyperthermophiles made of?
- Saturated fatty acids - Long carbon chains - Solid @ room temperatures
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What are psychrophiles made of?
- Unsaturated fatty acids - Short carbon chains can move easily - Liquid @ room temperatures
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Barometric Pressure
**Barophiles** are able to survive at a very high barometric pressure
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Water Activity
This is how water availability is measured and is approximated by concentration
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What does interactions with solutes (NaCl) do to water activity?
It lowers it | Lowered bc the amount of avaliable water is decreased
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Osmolarity
This is a measure of the **number of solute** molecules in a solution
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Hypertonic envrionments cause
plasmolysis | Shirnkage of the cell/ dehydration
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Extreme or Obligate Halophiles
**require** high salt concentrations | Will pump Na out the cell if needed
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Facultative Halophiles or Halotolerant
**tolerate** high salt concentrations | Will pump Na out the cell if needed
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How is salt pumped out of the cell?
Via active coupled transport Na+ is pumped out of the cell while K+ (compatable solute) is pumped into the cell
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How does pH influence the growth of bacteria?
It influences the growth by altering the protein shape, which in turn changes protein activity
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At what pH do **MOST** bacteria grow in?
pH 6.5-7.5
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At what pH do molds and yeasts grow in?
pH 5-6
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Microbes have adapated to inhabit diverse pH envrionments from
0-11.5
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Acidophiles
Organisms that thrive under highly acidc envrionments | pH 0-5
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Neautralophiles
Organisms that thrive under a more neutral envrionment | pH 6-8
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Alkaliphiles
Organisms that thrive under more alkaline (basic) envrionments | pH 9-14
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pH Chart | Just a picture
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Acidic Condition
- Increase in concentration of H+ ions - H+/K+ antiport transport system - Pump out H+ and bring in K+
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Buffering System | dont study this card until verified
- Urease changes urea to NH3 (ammonia)+ CO2 - Causes body to nutrealize the envrioment
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How do certian bacteria such as *E.coli* prevent from becoming too acidic?
It can reverse proton influx by importing a variety of cations such as K+ and Na+
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What does the cell do under extremely alkaline condtions?
The cells can use Na+/H+ anti-porters to recruit protons into the cell in exchange for expelling Na+ Na+ out the cell; H+ in the cell
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How does the reactive oxygen species occur?
It occurs when O2 takes on the e- too early in th electron transport chain
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Which type of organisms are able to destory reactive oxygen species (ROS)? | Aerobes or anaerobes?
Aerobes | The terminal electron acceptor of anaerobes are not O2
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Which enzymes help aid in destroying ROS?
1. superoxide dismutase 2. peroxidase 3. catalase
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What dose superoxide dismutase remove?
superoxide
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What does peroxidase remove?
hydrogen peroxide
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What does catalase remove?
hydrogen peroxide
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Destruction of ROS | Just a picture
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Strict Aerobes
- Appear at the top of the tube - Requires oxygen for energy metabolism and survive **only** in envrionments with oxygen - Successfully detoxify reactive oxygen species (ROS) - Include ALL groups of life; other than bacteria
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Strict Anaerobes
- Appear at the very bottom of the tube - **Does not** requires oxygen for energy metabolism and can only survive in envrionments **without oxygen** - May also use fermentation; O2 not final e- acceptor - **Unable** to detoxify ROS which makes oxygen toxic - Include BACTERIA ONLY
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Microaerophiles
- Aerobic, but ROS can be toxic; they make very little enzyme - Survive in envrionments with **lower oxygen** concentration - Appear to be in the middle of the tube
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Aerotolerant Anaerobes
- Appears all over the tube - **Tolerates** O2, but it prefers and is ultimately anerobic - Has the ROS system in pace to be able to destory theml; usually lack catalase
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Facultative Anaerobes
- Appears all over the tube - Aerobic AND anaerobic - Can survive with or without oxygen - Has ROS enzymes - Can do both fermentation and aerobic respiration
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Facultative Aerobes
- Appears mostly at the top of the tube, but can be everywhere - Will switch to fermentation if O2 is not present, but **prefers** O2 envrionment
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Aerobe vs. Anaerobe in Tube | Just a picture
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What are two ways to culture anaerobes?
1. Anaerobe jar 2. Anaerobic chamber
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Anaerobic Jar
O2 is removed and CO2 is generated
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Anaerobic Chamber
The glove ports remove the atmosphere via vacuum and replace it with a precise mixture of N2 and CO2 gases.
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Biofims
- Surface attache communitities - Most can grow in these - Can be multi or single species - Go where it is nutrient rich - More resistant to antibiotics
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Quorum Sensing
How cells are able to communicate and coodinate actions
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Biofilm Formation Steps
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Endospores
- Gram+ bacteria - Dormant structure that requires no nutrient or energy - Can last a very long time before reactivation may occur
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