Foundations in Microbiology Bundle Pack All Exams compiled answered and Updated 2024.

dust and soil - Answer What is the usual habitat of endospore-forming bacteria that are agents of disease nonpathogens - Answer Most bacilli species are anaerobic - Answer Most clostridial diseases require a _____ environment for their development myonecrosis, food poisoning (both A+B...

What is metabolism? - Answer all chemical and physical workings of a cell What are the two types of metabolism? - Answer Catabolism and Anabolism What is catabolism? - Answer degradative; breaks the bonds of larger molecules forming smaller molecules; releases energy What is anabol...

Common metabolic products of aerobic bacteria and fungi is known as what? - Answer Antibiotics By inhibiting the other microbes in the same habitat, antibiotic producers have less competition for _____ and ____ - Answer nutrients, space Drugs should kill or inhibit microbial cells without ...

Magnification - Answer -ability to enlarge objects Resolving power - Answer -smallest seperation at which two seperate objects can be distinguished Total Magnification - Answer -of the final image is a product of the seperate magnifying powers of the two lenses -Objective power x Ocular...

Microbiology - Answer Specialized area of biology that deals with tiny life forms that are not readily observed without magnification Six groups of microorganisms - Answer Bacteria Viruses Fungi Protozoa Algae Helminths Bacteriology - Answer The bacteria - small single-celled prokar...

Genetics - Answer The science of heredity; the study of how genes carry information, replicate, and are passed on from generation to generation. Chromosome - Answer A double coiled strand of DNA. Prokarya-O only 1 ; Eukarya-X 2-240 pair Genes - Answer A limited site (segment of DNA) on a...

Of the five senses, which one must microbiologists rely upon when studying microorganisms? - Answer Sight Microbiologists must contend with unique problems when studying microorganisms. What is not one of these problems? A) Pure cultures do not exist in nature. B) Groups of microbes must be s...

Chemotherapy - Answer - The use of chemicals to treat disease Antimicrobial drugs - Answer - kill or inhibit microbes -most effective against bacteria Antibiotic - Answer substance (chemical) produced by an organism that exhibits antimicrobial properties Selective toxicity - Answer ...

Which structure is not a component of all cells? -cell wall -cell membrane -genetic material -ribosomes - Answer Cell wall Viruses are not considered living things because: -they are not cells -they cannot reproduce by themselves -they lack metabolism -all of the above - Answer All of...

Capsids is a ____ - Answer Protein coat that encloses and protects the nucleic acid All viruses have Capsids true or false? - Answer True Nucleocapsid consists of _____Together with_____ - Answer 1.) capsid 2.) nucleic acid Some viruses have an external covering called an____ - Answer...

______is all chemical and physical workings of a cell - Answer Metabolism ________breaks the bonds of larger molecules forming smaller molecules; releases energy - Answer Catabolism A process that forms larger macromolecules from smaller molecules; requires energy input is known as what? -...