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W10-C1 : microbiology of water Flashcards

1
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What are the factors that influence the number of phytooplankton?

A
  1. light
  2. temperature
  3. availability of specific limiting nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus
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What are the two limiting nutrients in of the phytoplankton?

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  1. nitrogen

2. phosphorus

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3
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What is the name of the zone in which the light can penetrate in the water?

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photic zone

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4
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T or F : phytoplankton is eukaryote

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false, cyanobacteria is also a phytoplankton and it is a bacteria.

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5
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What is the term of the organisms that live in the salt water?

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halotolerant

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6
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What is the term refering to the low nutrient concentration found in the ocean?

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oligotrophic.

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7
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Where does the bulk of the primary productivity comes from in the open ocean?

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prochlorophytes.

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8
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T or F : the prochlorococcus doesn’t have phycobillins

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true, that is why it is so green

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9
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What are the most abodant photsynthetic organisms in the ocean?

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procholorococus. (from the prochlorophytes).

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10
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why is trichodesmium brown while prochlorococus is green

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because the trichodesmium has phycobillins

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11
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What is the term of a water rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.

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eutrophic

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12
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why is there more zooplankton an aquatic animal in coastal water?

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beause of the high nutrient concentration supporting the presence of primary productivity and then higher levels of zoo plancton and aquatic animal benefiting from that primary productivitiy

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13
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What causes red tides?

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algal bloom of dinoflagellate.

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14
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The excess in which nutrient is related to the red tide?

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nitrogen.

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15
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What is marine snow?

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sinking of organic matter from upper water to deeper water

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16
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T or F : there can’t be heterotroph at the sea floor because there is no nutrient

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false

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17
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what are the two nutrients that are limiting of the microbial life in lakes

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phosphorous and nitrogen

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18
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Complete : in oligotrophic lakes the primary production is _____

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low

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19
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______ growth is inhibited in the oligotrophic lakes because of the lack of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous)

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chemoheterotrophs

20
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complete : in a eutrophic lake, the primary production is ____

A

high

21
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in _____ lake the primary production is low and the organic matter is ____

A

low

22
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What is the name of the colder bottom layer in lakes?

A

hypolimnion

23
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What is the name of the warmer top layer in lakes?

A

epilimnion

24
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What is the name of the zone of rapid temperature change in lakes?

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thermocline

25
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What is the BOD?

A

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) : it describes the measure of how much oxygen needs to be present in order to use up all the organic matter in the water os a measure of the pollution by organic matter.

26
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if there is a high amounts of organic matter in a lake, the BOD will be ____

A

high

27
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Where does most of the water borne pathogen grows?

A

in the intestinal tract

28
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What is the transmission medium of water-borne pathogens?

A

fecal contamination of water supplies.

29
Q

Giardialamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum are example of water born pathoogenic caused by _____

A

protozoa (free living eukaryote)

30
Q

Giardialamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum forms ____

A

cysts

31
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Why are Giardialamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum able to live in swimming pool?

A

because they are resistant to chlorine

32
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What are the two indicators of pathogens in the water quality control?

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  1. coliforms

2. fecal coliforms.

33
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Which one can growth at temperature of 44.5˚c? coliforms or fecal coliforms?

A

fecal coliforms

34
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What is the the factors that is used to defirentiate fecal coliforms and coliforms?

A

the fact that fecal coliforms live at 44.5˚C

35
Q

Give the features of coliforms

A 
Facultative aerobic
Gram‐negative
non spore‐forming
rod‐shaped bacteria
can ferment lactose with gas formation within 48 hours at 35°C.
36
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What are the two test being made to look for coliforms

A

MPN and membrane filtration

37
Q

What are the aim of water treatment

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– remove pathogens
– improve clarity of water
– remove compounds that give bad smell or taste
– soften the water

38
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What are the various steps in the water treatment?

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  1. sedimentation
  2. flocculation txt
  3. filtration
  4. disinfection
39
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What does the flocs traps in the flocculation step

A

they trap fine particles (clay, bacteria, viruses, protists). and organic chemicals

40
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in which step of the water txt most of the bacteria, color and particulate are removed?

A

flocculation

41
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What is the aims in the wastewater treatment

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– Reduce BOD (remove/destroy organic matter)

– Destroy pathogens

42
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What are the steps in the wastewater treatment?

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  1. sedimentation
  2. a. liquid–> trickling filter or activated sludge
  3. • May involve any or a combination of :Biological treatment (living it to sit in a ponds and let algae oxidize the organic matter), flocculation, filtration, chlorination or ozonation
43
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name all the water borne bacterial pathogens and viruses

A
  1. salmonella typhi
  2. vibrio cholerae
  3. shigella spp
  4. salmonella spp
  5. campylobacter spp
  6. enterovirus
44
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T or F : cyst of G. Lambia are not removed by the process of water

A

false, it is cyst of C. parvum.

45
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What is the step that removes the g.lambia cyst in the water treatment.

A

the filtration

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