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What is a medium that is appropriate for a broad variety of aerobic and anaerobic, fastidious and nonfastidious organism, and is well adapted for cultivation of strict anaerobes and microaerophiles? |
fluid thioglycollate broth (FTB) |
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What is an important resource influencing microbial growth? |
Oxygen |
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The ability to live in the presence of oxygen is |
aerotolerance |
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what are organisms that require oxygen for aerobic respiration that grow at the top of the media |
obligate (strict) aerobes |
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what grows in the presence or absence of oxygen |
facultative anaerobes |
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what are organisms that don't require oxygen, can live uniformly throughout the medium |
aerotolerant anaerobes |
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what are organisms that survive only in environments containing lower than atmospheric levels of oxygen |
microaerophiles |
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what are microaerophiles that can survive only if carbon dioxide levels are elevated? |
capnophiles |
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what are organisms for which even small amounts of oxygen are lethal, will only be seen in lower regions of the medium |
obligate (Strict) anaerobes |
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which test is a good visual indicator of oxygen tolerance in microorganisms |
agar deep stabs |
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which medium is appropriate for a broad variety of aerobic and anaerobic, fastidious and nonfastidious organisms, and is well adapted for cultivation of strict anaerobes and microaerophiles? |
Fluid thioglycollate broth (FTB) |
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What is a plastic jar in which to create anaerobic, microaerophilic, or CO2 enriched conditions? |
The GasPak Anaerobic System |
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What does the GasPak Anaerobic System procedure do |
provides a mean of conveniently cultivating anaerobic and microaerophilic bacteria without expensive equpiment |
