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Unit 6 Nutrition And Metabolism Flashcards

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1
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Bacterial growth requires

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A source of energy and raw materials

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Why can bacteria grow inside of us

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Because they need environmental conditions similar to the ones in our body

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Macronutrients definition

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Required in large amounts

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Micronutrients

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Required in small amounts

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What is the most important macronutrients

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Water

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Growth factor definition

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Organic compound essential for bacterial growth but cannot be synthesized by the organism

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Exemple growth factors

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Vitamins (B complex )
Amino acids
Purines and Pyrimidines ( for production of nucleus acid)

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How many amino acids

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20

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Prototrophs

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Microorganism that has the ability to synthesize growth factors

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Auxotrophs

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Organism that has lost the ability to synthesize growth factors and take they from environment

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Are most of the bacteria prototrophs or Auxotrophs

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Auxotrophs

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Cell cycle

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Series of events that takes place in a cell from its formation to its division

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13
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Mean generation time

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The time it’s takes a population to double in number

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Bacterial growth definition

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Increase of cell constituents

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15
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Microbial growth curve in a closed system

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Lag phase
Exponential phase
Stationary phase
Death phase

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Lag phase

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Preparation for cell division

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Exponential phase

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Reproduce massively

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Stationary phase

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Plateau because of nutrient and air limitation and accumulation of toxic compounds

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Death

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Decline in number of viable cells

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20
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Exemple of bacteria able to live in salty environment

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Halophiles

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21
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Environmental conditions for bacterial growth

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Osmotic pressure
Humidity
Temperature
pH

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pH

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Most of them 7-7,2

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Why is temperature important

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Too high or too low temperatures can disturb enzym catalyzed reactions

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24
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Types of bacteria considering temperature

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Psychrophiles
Mesophiles
Thermophiles

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Psycrophiles

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Cold 5-20, Oceans
Lots of Fatty Acids in the plasma membrane

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Mesophils

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20-40
Human body

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27
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Thermophils

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40-80

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28
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Obligate aerobes

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Always use O2

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29
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Always use O2

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Aerobes

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30
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Facultative anaerobes

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With or without but prefer O2

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31
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With or without but prefer O2

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Facultative anaerobes

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32
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Aerotolerant anaerobes

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No preference

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33
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No preference in O2

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Aerotolerant anaerobes

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34
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Obligate Anaerobes

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Never

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35
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Never O2

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Obligate anaerobes

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36
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Metabolism

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Total of all the chemical reactions occurring in the cell

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37
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Catabolism is also called

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Energetic metabolism

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38
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Energetic metabolism is also called

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Catabolism

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39
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Anabolism is also called

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Synthetic metabolism

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40
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Synthetic metabolism is also called

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Anabolism

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41
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Definition anabolism

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Creation of big molecules from smaller parts
Needs ATP

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42
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Catabolism definition

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Breakdown of big molecules into aller ones
Release ATP

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43
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Exemple macromolecules

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Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic acids

44
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Catabolism of macromolecules results in…

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simple molecules, electrons and ATP

45
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Autotrophs

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Use CO2 as a source of carbon

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Heterotrophs get carbon…

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from organic sources

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Phototrophs get energy from…

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Light

48
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… use light as a source of energy

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Phototrophs

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Chemotrophs use…

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Red/ox as a source of energy

50
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… use red/ox as a source of energy

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Chemotrophs

51
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Most of the pathogenic bacteria are…
(Source of carbon and energy)

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Heterotrophs and Chemotrophs

52
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Catabolism stages

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Chemotaxis
Digestion
Absorption
Preparation
Oxidation

53
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Chemotaxis

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Detection and approach nutrients

54
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Digestion

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Hydrolysis of large molecules via enzymes that are released by bacteria

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Ex digestive enzymes

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Protease, Peptidase, lipase, sucrase

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Absorption

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The small molecules produced get into the cytoplasm by active or passive transport mechanisms

57
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Preparation

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Complex metabolic pathways where the smaller molecules get degraded a second time
Little bit of energy produced

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Oxidation

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Complete oxidation forming simple end products

59
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Simple or passive diffusion

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Substance passes through the membrane without intermediary
Follows the gradient so doesn’t require energy

60
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Osmosis

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Water diffusion
No energy needed

61
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Associated permease transport

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Via cytoplasmic membrane proteins

With gradient➡️facilitated diffusion

Against gradient➡️active transport

62
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Difference substances transported by simple diffusion or facilitated diffusion

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Simple diffusion transports smaller molecules, non polar/hydrophobic molecules

63
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Group translocation

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Molecule changes while entering the cell
Requires energy

64
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Exemple group translocation

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Phosphorylation of sucrose

65
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Is water polar or non polar

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Polar

66
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Facilitated diffusion

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Faster than simple diffusion
Used to transport hydrophilic molecules
Protein that recognizes specific molecules

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Name of the protein of facilitated and active transport

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Permeases

68
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Two oxidation processes

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Respiration: oxidative phosphorylation
Last compound is inorganic

Fermentation :substrate level phosphorylation
Last compound is organic

69
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Aerobic respiration generates 2 toxic oxidizing byproducts for the bacteria…

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H2O2 hydrogen peroxyde
O2- superoxide anion

70
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Enzymes that protect from the toxic byproducts

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Catalase for hydrogen peroxide
Superoxide dismutase

71
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Two types of respiration

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Aerobic
Anaerobic

72
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Which respiration produces the most ATP

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Aerobic respiration

73
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Fermentation

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Anaerobic
Terminal acceptor is organic
Production of acids
Low energy yield 2ATP/ Glucose

74
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Aerobic respiration

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Electron transport chain
Terminal electron acceptor is O2
High energy yield 38ATP/ glucose

75
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Anaerobic respiration

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Electron transport chain
Terminal electron acceptor is NOT O2, could be carbon dioxide, nitrate, sulfate
Energy yield medium

76
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In the lab we should reproduce and supply

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Optimum growth conditions: T, O2, pH, osmotic pressure
Nutrients

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To have optimum growth conditions and supply nutrients we need

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Culture media: solid, semi-solid, liquid. Natural, synthetic or semisynthetic

Incubator

78
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What are incubators for

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Temperature
Atmosphere: aerobic, anaerobic, microaerophilic, CO2 enrichment

79
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Bacteria that require low level of dioxygen

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Microaerophile

80
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Main purposes of cultivation

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Grow and isolate microorganisms present in a clinical specimen

Determine which microorganism are most likely causing infections

Obtain sufficient growth to allow identification, characterization and susceptibility testing

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Cultivation

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Process of growing microorganisms in culture in the artificial environment of the lab by taking them from the infection site

82
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Classification of the media by the physical state

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Liquid
Semi solid
Solid

83
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Solid state

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Firm surface on which cells can form discrete colonies
Advantageous for isolating and culturing different bacteria and fungi

Observation of colonies

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Semi solid

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At normal room temperature, clot like consistency

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Liquid

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Water based solutions that do not solidify at temperatures above freezing
Present a dispersed or cloudy appearance (turbidity)

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Synthetic chemical composition

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Precise composition

87
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Semisynthetic composition

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Partially known

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Functional types of media

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General purpose
Enriched
Selective
Differential

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General purpose media

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To grow a broad spectrum of microbes

90
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Enriched media

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Contains substances such as blood, plasma, growth factors, etc required for the growth of the bacteria

91
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Selective media

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Contains agents that inhibit the growth of certain bacteria
Could be antibiotics

92
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Differential media

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Multiple bacteria grow, but show differences, in color for ex

93
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Bacterial colony

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Numerous bacterial cells derived from one parent

94
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2 ways of identifying bacteria

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Genotyping characteristics

Phenotypic characteristics

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Genotyping characteristics

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Using molecular techniques for DNA or RNA analysis

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Indentification via phenotypic characteristics

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Microscopic morphology and staining characteristics
Macroscopic morphology, including odor and color
Environmental requirements for growth
Resistance or suceptibility to microbial agents
Nutritional requirements and metabolic byproducts (waste)

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Biochemical tests used in identification of bacteria

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Test the presence of enzymes

To demonstrate metabolic pathways

Ability to survive in the presence of inhibitors

98
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Test the presence of enzymes like…

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Catalase
Urease

99
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Test for metabolic pathways

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Oxidation and fermentation tests
Amino acid degradation
Using a substrate

100
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Two type of diagnostic techniques

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Direct (test the bacteria)
Indirect (test the blood)

101
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Direct diagnostic techniques

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Microscopy
Culture (selective etc)
Antigen detection
Biochemical tests
Antibiogram
Nucleic acid detection
Proteomic techniques (proteins)

102
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Antibiogram

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Testing the resistance of a bacteria to drugs

103
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Immunologic techniques

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Antibody and antigen detection

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Serology test

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Test the presence of antibodies

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Molecular techniques

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Nucleic acid detection

106
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Respiration is also called

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Oxidative phosphorylation

107
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Fermentation is also called

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Substrate level phosphorylation

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