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1. what means narrow range?
2. necessary?
3. lover, loving
4. very high or low
5. what means wide range?
6. not necessary
7. fearer, fearing?
8. also extreme?
1. steno
2. obligate
3. philo
4. extreme
5. eury
6. faculatative
7. phobe
8. hyper
1. psychro
2. meso
3. hot?
4. acido
5. alkali/baso
6. halo
1. cold
2. middle
3. thermo
4. acidic (low pH)
5. basic (high pH)
6. salt
1. Psychrophile
2. Obligate psychrophile
3. eurythermic?
4. hyperthermophile?
5. these are nutrients that must be provided in form of elements or molecules
6. Chemicals and elements that are utilized for cellular activity
1. – grow in cold temperatures
2. – only grows at low temperatures
3. can grow in a wide range of temperature
4. grows at very high temperatures
5. essential nutrients
6. nutrients
1. required in large quantities; play principal roles in cell structure & metabolism ex?
2. required in small amounts; what are they involved in? ex?
3. what is a heterotroph?
4. what is a autotroph?
5. what is the carbon source and the energy source of photoautotrophs?
1. macronutrients (proteins and carbs)
2. involved in enzyme function & maintenance of protein structure; micronutrients; zinc, nickel
3. an organism that must obtain carbon in an organic form made by other living organisms (animal)
4. an organism that uses CO2, an inorganic gas as its carbon source (plants)
5. CO2, light
1. what is the carbon source and energy source of a chemoautotrophs?
2. photoheterotrophs?
3. chemoheterotrophs
4. what is the primary source of N for heterotrophs?
5. what does bacteria and algae use what to get N?
6. what can prokaryotes fix?
1. CO2 and chemicals
2. organic carbon and light
3. organic carbon and chemicals
4. proteins, DNA, ATP, RNA
5. nitrate, nitrite
6. N2
1. what is a major component carbs, lipids, and proteins and plays an important role in structural and enzymatic functions of cells
2. major element in all organic compounds & several inorganic ones (water, salts & gases)
3. key component of nucleic acids, phospholipids, and coenzymes
serves in energy transfers
4. essential component of some vitamins and some amino acids
and widely distributed in environment, rocks, sediments
1. oxygen
2. hydrogen
3. phosphorous
4. sulfur
1. what is also important elements in microbial metabolism, growth factors, and influnce the course of certain diseases
2. what decompose dead organisms, recycle elements, release enzymes to digest materials
3. what utilize tissues and fluids of a living host and cause harm
4. what is the lowest temperature that permits a microbe’s growth and metabolism called?
5. what is the highest temperature that permits a microbe’s growth and metabolism called?
6. what temp promotes the fastest rate of growth and metabolism
1. K, Ca, Na, Mg, Fe
2. saprobes
3. parasites
4. minimum temperature
5. max temp
6. optimum temp
1. when the optimum temperature below 15oC, capable of growth at 0oC
2. when the optimum temperature 20o-40oC, most human pathogens
3. when the optimum temperature greater than 45oC
4. when the optimum temp is greater than 80oC
5. what is the bacteria called when it grows slowly in cold, but has a optimal temp above 20
1. psychrophiles
2. mesophiles
3. thermophiles
4. hyperthermophiles
5. psychrotrophs/facultative psycrhophiles
1. what is it called when microbes can withstand short exposure to high temps
2. what has the most influence on microbial growth?
3. why are anaerobes anaerobes?
4. what cannot grow without oxygen?
5. what uses oxygen but can also grow in its absence?
1. they are thermoduric
2. oxygen and CO2
3. because they dont have the mechanisms to detoxify oxygen. they would die in the presence of it.
4. obilgate aerobe
5. facultative anaerobe
1. requires only a small amount of oxygen (not as much as there is in the atmosphere)
2. what lacks the enzymes to detoxify O2 so cannot survive in an oxygen environment
3. does no use oxygen but can survive and grow with it bc it can detoxify
4. grows best at higher CO2 tensions than normally present in the atmosphere
5. what is an example of a acidophile?
1. microaerophilic
2. obligate anaerobe
3. aerotolerant anaerobes
4. capnophile
5. heliobacter
1. where ca alkalinophiles be found?
2. what require a high concentration of salt
3. what do not require high concentration of solute but can tolerate it when it occurs
4. what loves to grow in high salt
conditions but can deal without it?
5. what are deep see microbes that live under pressure many time higher than atmospheric pressure
1. in soil
2. halophiles
3. osmotolerant
4. osmotophile
5. barophiles
1. what is it called when organisms live in close nutritional relationships; required by one or both members
2. what is mutaulism?
3. what is commensalism?
4. what is parasitism?
5. all pathogens are
1. symbiotic
2. both members benefit
3. commensal member benefits, the other member is not harmed
4. parasite benefits; host is harm
5. parasites
1. what is it called when organisms are free-living; relationships not required for survival
2. when members cooperate and share nutrients
3. what some member are inhibited or destroyed by others
4. microbes that normally live on/in human are called
5. What is the majority of our normal flora?
6. what is the only thing in our bodies that has alot of bacteria?
1. non-symbiotic
2. synergism
3. antagonism
4. normal microbial flora
5. bacteria
6. large intestines
1. Division of bacterial cells occurs mainly through; what has to come first?
2. time required for a complete fission cycle is called
3. each new fission cycle increases the pop by a factor of __ this is called
4. what is the generation time for e.coli? mycobacterium tb? mycobacterium leprae
5. how can you obtain a growth curve? what is it?
1. binary fission; DNA replicaton
2. generation/doubling time
3. 2; exponential/log growth
4. 10-20min; 12hrs; 10-30days
5. using a batch culture; growth of a culture in a flask w/ one time supply of media and no removal of waste.
1. what are the phases of the growth curve?
2. when is bacteria is more suspetable?
1. Lag phase – “flat” period of adjustment, enlargement; little growth Exponential growth phase – a period of maximum growth will continue as long as cells have adequate nutrients & a favorable environment

Stationary phase – rate of cell growth equals rate of cell death cause by depleted nutrients, excretion of waste Death phase – as limiting factors intensify, cells die exponentially in their own wastes
2. during the log phase (where the most metabolism took place)
1. what is a continuous culture?
2. what is used for this?
3. what does the spectrophotometer measure?
4. under the microscope with a special slide or automated count with a Coulter counter or flow cytometer.
5. samples of a culture are taken in time intervals and spread on an agar plate; then the resulting colonies are counted
1. the organisms are supplied with fresh nutrients and flushing off toxic products.
2. An automated growth chamber = chemostat
3. it measures the turbidity of a culture
4. Direct count
5. calulated CFU
1. the theory that Organelles originated from procaryotic cells trapped inside them.
2. long, sheathed cylinder containing microtubules in a 9+2 arrangement
covered by an extension of the cell membrane, function in motility,
3. function in motility, feeding and filtering, short; found where?
4. an outermost boundary that comes into direct contact with environment usually composed of polysaccharides; function?
5. rigid, provides structural support and shape
1. symbiosis
2. flagella
3. single group of protozoa and certain animal cells
4. glycocalyx; adherence, protection, and signal reception
5. cell wall
1. fungi's cell wall is composed of
2. who's cell wall is variable?
3. what is the function of sterols?
4. the nuclear envelope is composed (what does it contain)?
5. what is the job of the nucleolus?
1. chitin or cellulose and mixed glycans
2. algae (it contains cellulose, pectin, calcium carbonate)
3. stability
4. two parallel membranes separated by a narrow space and is perforated with pores (chromosome)
5. rRNA synthesis and ribosome subunit assembly (its the dark spot)
1. what does Rough ER do?
2. smooth?
3. what does the Golgi go?
4. consists of a stack of flattened sacs
1. make amino acids and protiens and that are given to it by nucleolus for packaging and transport
2. make lipids
3. Transitional vesicles from the ER containing proteins go to the Golgi apparatus for modification and maturation. Condensing vesicles transport proteins to organelles or secretory proteins to the outside.
4. cisternae
1. what is the life cycle of protein?
2. function of lysosomes
3. function of mitochondria
4. where is chloroplasts found?
5. the sacs in the chloroplasts are called
6. they are stacked into
1. nucleus, RER, golgi, vesicles, secretion
2. digestion
3. make ATP (energy production)
4. algae and plant cells
5. thylakoids
6. grana
1. what is photosynthesis?
2. what does mitochondria and chloroplast both have?
3. 40S and 60S subunits form what?
4. what is involved in movement of cytoplasm, transport, and structural support?
5. what is the only multicellular organism we study?
1. when energy is converted into chemical energy
2. DNA and 70S ribosomes
3. 80S
4. cytoskelton
5. worms
1. what are the 2 morphologies of fungi? used for what?
2. dimorphic means?
3. for filamentous fungi, the mass of hyphae is called
4. hyphae may be divided by cross walls called
5. what type of hyphae produces spores for reproduction?
6. what type of hyphae digests and absorb nutrients
1. yeast (round) spreading easily and hyphae (long filaments) poke tissue
2. can exist in either morphology **it is a characteristic of alot of fungi
3. mycelium
4. sepate
5. reproductive hyphae
6. vegetatvie hyphae
1. when some yeast can elongate, then buds, but doesn't detach.
2. our normal flora, candida albicans is kept in check by what..what happens if that goes away?
3. all fungi are
4. the majority of the fungi are labeled (eat dead material)
5. a fungal infection is called
1 pseudohyphae
2. lactobacillus; opportunistic pathogen
3. heterotrophs
4. saprobes
5. mycoses
1. how does fungi reproduce?
2. what is it called when spores are formed through budding or mitosis? ex?
3. what is it called when spores are formed following fusion of male and female strains and formation of sexual structure
4. what is one basis of formation for fungi classification?
5. which fungal classification majority are yeasts and molds; no sexual spores known; conidia
1. Primarily through spores formed on reproductive hyphae
2. asexual reproduction; conidia (arthrospores-breaks off at septae) or sporangiospores (sac then it bursts)
3. sexual reproduction
4. Sexual spores and spore-forming structures
5. Deuteromycota
1. which fungal classification zygospores; sporangiospores and some conidia
2. which fungal classification basidiospores; conidia
3. which fungal classification ascospores; conidia
4. name some bad impacts of fungi
5. name some good impacts
1. zygomycota
2. basidomycota
3. ascomycota
4. mycoses, allergies, toxin production and destruction of crops and food storages
5. decomposers of dead plants and animals, sources of antibiotics, alcohol, organic acids, vitamins
used in making foods and in genetic studies
1. algae that are free-living in fresh and marine water
2. what type of algae cause red tides and give off toxins that cause food poisoning with neurological symptoms.
3. what fungus is found in the genitals?
4 what fungus causes Ohio Valley Fever?
5. what is the purpose of algae?
1. plankton
2. dinoflagellates
3. Candida albicans
4. Histoplasmosis
5. food, makes oxygen, cosmetics, medical products
1. Describe protazoa
2. How do they feed?
3. what do they use to move?
4. the motile feeding stage is called
5. Many can enter into a dormant resting stage when conditions are unfavorable for growth and feeding
1. no cell wall, harmless, unicellular, heterotrophic, NO chloroplasts
2. by engulfing other microbes
3. cilia, flagella, psuedopods
4. trophozoite
5. cyst
1. how can protozoa reproduce?
2. what protozoa uses primarily flagellar motility
3. which one is primarily ameba and uses psuedopods
4. which one uses cilia;
5. which one has a complex life cycle, as not extentions or movement and just uses his surroundings to move
1. both sexually and asexually
2. mastigophora
3. sarcondina
4. ciliophora
5. apicomplexia
1. what does tichomonas cause?
2. what does trypanosoma cruzi cause?
3. what does Giardia causes
4. what does trypanosoma brucei
cause? transmitted by?
5. what does entamoeba histolytica cuase?
1. STD
2. Chaga's disease
3. intestinal problems
4. sleeping sickness; tsetse fly
5. amebic dysentery
1. how does ciliated protozoa move? ex? what does it do?
2. what does plasmodium causes?
3. what does toxoplasma causes?
4. what does cryptosporidium causes?
5. T.Gondii causes what? aka
1. fine hair on the outside of the body; B. Coli; resident in gastrointestinal tracts
2. malaria
3. toxoplasmosis
4. intestinal probs
5. toxoplasmosis in humans; cat litter box disease
1. what can complete a life cycle in a host?
2. the transmittion of plasmodium occurs in what species?
3. what type of worm flat, no definite body cavity; digestive tract a blind pouch; 2 types
4. what type of worm Roundworms (nematodes)- round, a complete digestive tract, a protective surface cuticle, spines and hooks on mouth;
1. cryptosporidum
2. mosquito Anopheles
3. flatworms (Cestodes (tapeworms)
Trematodes or flukes, are flattened , nonsegmented worms with sucking mouthparts.)
4. roundworm/nematodes
1. how are worms acquired?
2. how do you classify them?
3. how do you id them?
1. Acquired though ingestion of larvae or eggs in food; from soil or water; some are carried by insect vectors
2. Classify according to shape, size, organ development, presence of hooks, suckers, or other special structures, mode of reproduction, hosts, and appearance of eggs and larvae
3. Identify by microscopic detection of adult worm, larvae, or eggs