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Lab Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What does “ubiquitous” mean?

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that they are found everywhere

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What can microorganisms be isolated from?

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  • Soil
  • Water
  • Plants
  • Animals
  • Placed like the hot acid pools in Yellowstone
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Are all microorganisms ubiquitous?

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Not EVERY species is, but it applies to microorganisms as a group

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What do you call microorganisms that do not reside on or in a specific plant or animal host and are not known to cause disease?

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Free-living and nonpathogenic

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Saprophytes play an important role in decomposition of the ecosystem. What is a Saprophyte?

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A plant, fungus, or microorganism that lives on dead or decaying organic matter

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What are the three types of relationships between microorganisms and their host?

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Pathogenic, Mutualism, and Commensalism

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Pathogenic relationship

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Microorganism causes damage to the host

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Mutualistic relationship

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Both the host and the microbe benefit

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Commensal relationship

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Microbe benefits but no effect on host

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What are opportunistic pathogens?

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Pathogens that take advantage of a situation that is not normally available

-They inhabit our bodies and are capable of producing a disease state if introduced into a suitable part of the body

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Reservoir

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Any area where a microbe with potential to cause infection resides

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12
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What is the composition of Blood Agar?

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5% Sheep blood in a Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA) Base

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What is the purpose of blood agar?

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To differentiate bacteria based on their hemolytic characteristics

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Three major types of hemolysis

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Beta, Alpha, and Gamma

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Beta hemolysis

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Complete destruction; results in cleaning of the medium

  • has a yellow halo around the microbes in the TSA plate
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Alpha hemolysis

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Partial destruction; results in greenish discoloration of the medium

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Gamma hemolysis

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No hemolysis

-has neither the beta or alpha characteristics and will likely appear like nothing happened

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Germicides

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Refers to substances or systems, both chemical and physical, that prevent the spread of pathogens

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What are the three categories of germicides?

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Decontamination, Disinfection, and Serilization

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Decontamination

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  • Lowest level of control
  • Defined as “reduction of pathogenic microorganisms to a level at high items are safe to handle without protective attire”
    -involves the removal of all or most organic and inorganic matter
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Disinfection

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  • next level of control
  • kills most of targeted pathogens, but typically do not kill large numbers of spores
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What are the two types of disinfectants?

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Chemical sterilants and antiseptics

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Examples of methods of disinfection

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  • typically liquid or gaseous chemical agents
  • dry heat
  • moist heat
  • UV light
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Sterilization

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  • highest level of pathogen control
  • can kill all viable organisms, even spores
  • achieved by chemicals, gases, incineration, dry heat, moist heat, ethylene oxide gas, ionizing radiation, low-temp plasma, or low-temp ozone
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What is the most effective and most common method of sterilization? What is an example of it?

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Steam Sterilization
Ex: Autoclave

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What is the sterilizing temperature for autoclaving and how long should it be done for?

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Between 121 and 127 degrees C for at least 15 at the optimum temperature

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What is the only way to determine with certainty that sterilization has been achieved?

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Biological indicators

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What does aseptic transfer mean?

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Transfer of living microbes from one place to another without contamination of the culture, the sterile medium, or the surroundings

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29
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What is a culture?

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A medium that contains living microbes

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What is a pure culture?

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A culture that contains a single species

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31
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What is a mixed culture?

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A culture that contains multiple species

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32
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What assumption should be made about cultures?

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All cultures are assumed to be mixed prior to obtaining isolation

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Broths

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Used to grow microbes when fresh cultures or large number of cells are required

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Agar Slants

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Used to grow stock cultures that can be refrigerated after incubation and maintained for several weeks

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What is Plated media used for?

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Typically used for obtaining isolation of species, differential testing, and quantifying bacterial densities

36
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methods of isolation

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Spread plate, streak plate, and pour plate

37
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Spread Plate Technique

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Microbial sample is deposited on an agar plate and spread uniformly. After incubation, a portion of isolated colon can be transferred to a sterile medium to begin a pure culture.

-Can be used to quantify cell density of a broth culture

38
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What are growth characteristics influenced by?

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  • nutrient availability
  • temperature
  • incubation time
39
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Basic categories of colony morphology

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Shape, margin, elevation, texture, color, and optical properties

40
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What are agar slants used for?

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Cultivation, maintenance, and storage of stock cultures

41
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growth characteristics for organisms cultured on a slant

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  • Filiform
    • dense and opaque with a smooth edge
  • Friable
    • Crusty
  • Spreading Edge
    • produced by motile organisms
  • Pigmented or translucent/transparent
42
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Growth patterns in broth

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  • Pellicle
    • growth floats on top of the medium
  • Sediment
    -growth sinks to the bottom
  • Uniform fine turbidity
    -Flocculent
    -clumped growth
43
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Who developed the concept of the pure culture in the 1850’s?

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Louis Pasteur

44
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What did Robert Koch develop a procedure for the the 1880’s?

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Streaking for isolation

45
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What is the purpose of streaking for isolation?

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To obtain isolated colonies that can then be used to obtain a pure culture

46
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Bright-field microscopy

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Produces an image made from light transmitted through a specimen

47
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total magnification = magnification of ______ _____ x magnification of ________ _____

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Ocular lens; objective lens

48
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Resolution

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The clarity of an image

49
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Ocular micrometer

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Composed of uniform but unspecified graduations and must be calibrated before used to measure specimens

50
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Stage micrometer

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A microscope slide containing a ruler with 100 micrometers

51
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How many micrometers is 0.01mm?

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10

52
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How are bacterial stains useful?

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They are used to determine:
- Cell size
- Cell morphology
- cellular arrangement
- other bacterial structures or differentiating features

53
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What is an important first step in identifying bacterial species?

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Determining Cell Morphology

54
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Types of cell morphologies:

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  • spheres
    -cocci
  • rods
    • bacilli
  • spirals
    • spirilla
55
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What is pleomorphism?

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A single species that exhibits a variety of cell shapes- slender, ellipsoidal, or ovoid rods - within a given sample

56
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Pairs of cells have the prefix:

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“Diplo”

57
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Chains of cells have the prefix:

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“Strepto”

58
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Tetrads arrangement name example with cocci shape

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Micrococcus

59
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Cube “sarcina” cell arrangement name example with cocci shape

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Sarcina

60
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What is the prefix for an irregular cluster?

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‘Staphylo”

61
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Name example for a palisade and angular cell arrangement and a bacilli shape

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Corynebacterium

62
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what do stains contain?

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A solvent and the chromogen (colored molecule)

63
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What do chromogens consist of?

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The Chromophore (portion of the chromogen that gives it color) and the Auxochrome ( changed portion of the chromogen)

64
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What is the purpose of a negative stain?

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To determine morphology and cellular arrangement in bacteria that are too delicate to withstand heat-fixing

65
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Theory behind a Negative Stain

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  • uses a dye solution in which the chromogen is acidic
  • acidic chromogen gives up a H+ and becomes negatively changed
  • negative charge on bacterial surface repels the negatively charged chromogen
  • cell remains untainted against a colored background
66
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What is a Simple Stain?

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Smear is stained with a single dye that stains the cells all the same color

-differentiation of cell types or structures is NOT the objective!

67
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Differential stains

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Detect differences between organisms or between parts of the same organism

-used more frequently than simple stains because they provide additional information

68
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What is part of the group of stains are sometimes referred to as structural stains?

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  • Acid-fast stains
  • Gram stain
  • Capsule stain
  • Endospore stain
  • Flagella stain
69
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What is the purpose of simple stains?

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Stain heat-fixed cells with a colored dye to make them more visible under a microscope

70
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Simple stain theory

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  • Auxochrome picks up a H+ or loses an OH- and becomes positively charged
  • Attracted to the negative charges on the surface of most bacterial cells
71
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what are examples of simple stains?

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  • Methylene Blue
    -Crystal Violet
  • Safranin
  • Carbolfuchsin
72
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Differential stains are used to differentiate between _________ and _________ cells

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Gram positive and Gram negative

73
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Gram-Positive

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Bacteria have a very thick cell wall made of peptidoglycan and NO outer membrane

74
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Gram-negative (pink)

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Bacteria have a thin cell wall made of peptidoglycan and have an outer membrane

75
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Why do gram positive stains resist coloration?

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It is because of the thicker peptidoglycan layers and greater cross-linking due to teichoic acids. It traps the crystal violet-iodine complex and resists decoloration

76
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What is the most critical and most likely step that is the source of inconsistency? Why?

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Decolonization because you could cause over-decolorization and under-decolorization

77
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What are the three techniques that are executed poorly for variable results?

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  • Decolorization is done wrong
  • Improper preparation of the emulsion
  • Age of the culture
    • best cultures are no older than 24 hours because they can lose their ability to retain the crystal violet-iodine complex
78
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What is an Acid Fast Stain based on?

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The presence of mycolic acids in the cell wall of acid-fast positive organisms

79
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Mycolic acid

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A waxy substance that provides a higher affinity for the primary stain and resistance to decoloration by an acid alcohol solution

80
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what is an important differential stain used to identify bacteria in the genus Mycobacterium?

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Acid-fast stain

81
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Acid-Fast Positive final color is _____ while Acid-Fast Negative final color is _______

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Pink; green

82
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Endospore

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-Dormant form of the bacterium that allows it to survive poor environmental conditions
-Resistant to heat and chemicals because of tough outer covering made of keratin

83
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Spore Location meanings

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  • Central
    • middle of the cell
  • Terminal
    • end of cell
  • Subterminal
    • between end and middle
84
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Endospore Stain

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Differential stain used to detect presence or absence of spores in bacterial cells

85
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which two genera produce spores?

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bacillus and Clostridium

86
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If a spore producer is present, it will have a ______ spore against the red-stained mother cell

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Malachite Green

87
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Categories of flagellation

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-Monotrichous (single flagellum)
-Peritrichous (flagella all around)
- Amphitrichous (flagella on both ends)
- Lophotrichous (flagella on one end)

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