Chapter 6- Microbial Growth Flashcards

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Microbial growth Cells can be ____ from colonies

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Isolated

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1
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Increase number of cells but not size

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Microbial growth

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2
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Microbial growth is ____ on the growth conditions

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dependant

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3
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Requirements for growth

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Physical, chemical

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4
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Physical requirements for growth

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Temp, pH, osmotic pressure

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5
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Chemical requirements for growth

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Carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, trace elements, O2, organic growth factor

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6
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Room temp

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Mesophiles

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7
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Below 0

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Psychrophiles

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8
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0-30

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Psychrotrophs

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9
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40-70

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Thermophiles

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10
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70 and above

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Hyperthermophiles

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11
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Hypertonic environments or an increase in salt or sugar cause

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Plasmolysis

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12
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Hypotonic environments cause

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Cell rupture

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13
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Backbone of organic molecules

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Carbon

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14
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Primary component or proteins

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Nitrogen

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15
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Protein component

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Sulfur

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16
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In DNA, RNA, ATP, and membranes

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Phosphorus

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17
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Organic compounds obtained from the environment

Vitamins, amino acids, purines, and pyrimidines

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Organic growth factors

18
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In plaque on teeth

19
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Microbial communities
Form slime or hydrogels
Share nutrients
Sheltered from harmful factors

20
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Bacteria is attracted by chemicals via

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Quorum sensing

21
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How do eukaryotes grow

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Mitosis, meiosis, and binary fission

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How do bacteria and archaea grow

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Binary fission

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Cell elongation and DNA replication
CW/ plasma membrane constriction
Cross wall formation(separate/isolate DNA)
Cell separation

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Binary fission

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Nutrients prepare for microbial growth
Culture medium
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No living microbes
Sterile
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Introduction of microbes into medium
Inoculum
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Microbes growling in/on culture medium
Culture
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Complex polysaccharide Used as solidifying agent for culture media Generally not metabolized by microbes Liquefies at 100C and solidifies at 40C
Agar
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Exact chemical composition
Chemically defined media
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Extant ya an digests of yeasts, meat, or plants
Complex media
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Contain chemicals that combine O2 Heated to drive off O2 Anaerobic
Reducing media
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Make it easy to distinguish colonies or different microbes
Differential media
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Suppress some unwanted microbes and encourage desired microbes
Selective media
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A pure culture contains only ____ species or strain
One
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A ___ is a population of cells arising from a single cell or spire or from a group of attached cells
Colony
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A colony is often called a
Colony forming unit
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The _____ is used to isolate pure cultures
Streak plate method
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Binary fission Budding Conidiospores Fragmentation
Reproduction in prokaryotes
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Bacterial growth curve order
Lag Log Stationary Death
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Intense activity preparing for population growth but no increase in population
Lag phase
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Exponential increase in population
Log phase
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Period of equilibrium-microbial deaths balance production of new cells
Stationary phase
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Population is decreasing at a logarithmic rate
Death phase