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MicroTest3 questions

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Question	Answer
Flow charts constructed from dichotomous keys______________________.	allow the investigator to show the relationships between the different statements
Why is microscopy not sufficient to identify microorganisms?	Microscopes provides only visual clues, and many bacteria share the same visual characteristics
When is bacterial identification of an unknown useful?	to identify the bacterium for a paticular disease to identify an unknown bacterium in an enviromental sample responsible for degrading an enviroment to identify the bacteria responsible for fermenting a sugar in a paticular product
The main method of identifying unknown bacteria identification is	biochemical tests
The evolutionary history of a group of organisms is called a ______________.	phylogeny
Which kingdom includes multicellular organisms with organelles containing a singular chromosome, 70S ribosomes, and chlorophyll?	Plantae
An appropriate definition of Prokaryotic species	a population of cells with similar characteristics including structure, morphology, biochemical reactions, surface antigens, and rRNA
Which domain includes multicellular absorptive heterotrophs?	Eurkarya
Which of the following is most often used in construction cladograms for microorganisms?	rRNA sequences
Into which domain would you place an organism that has a single circular chromosome, 70S ribosomes, and ether-linked lipids in its plasma membrane?	Archaea
What is phage typing used for?	used to differentiate very closely related bacteria, often different strains within a species.
In the scientific name, Thermus aquaticus, the specific epithet is,_______________.	aquaticus
FISH is used to identify a bacterium by_________.	reacting with specific ribosomes
You have isolated a motile, gram-positive cell with no visible nucleus. You can safely assume that the cell ___________.	has a cell wall (bacteria)
According to the tree of life, which domains are more closely related?	Eukarya & Archaea
What do extreme halophiles require for growth?	high salt concentration
Which of the groups of organisms in the Eukarya domain cause disease in humans?	amoebas
True or False. There are no fossil remains of prokaryotes?	False
True or False. In the domain system of classification, viruses are in the domain Archaea?	False
True or False. Once a scientific name is assigned for an organism, it is never changed.	False
True or False. Antibody molecules can be specific enough to distiguish among strains of a bacterial species.	True
True or False. Gram stains alone can be used to identify bacteria	False
True or False.Bergy's Manual can be used to identify bacteria	True
True or False. Microorganisms must be cultured before they can be identified.	False
True or False. Gram stains can be helpful in differentiating members of domain Archaea.	False
True or False. Fatty acids profiles can be used to determine the evolutionary relatedness of bacteria.	False
Our system of scientific nomeclature is called _____________ nomenclature.	binomial
Subgroups of a bacterial species are referred to as _______________.	strains
Tests such as the slide agglutination test, ELISA, and Western blot are ____________ tests.	Serological
____________can be used to specifically amplify tiny amounts of microbial DNA in a speciman	PCR
A population of identical cells derived from a single cell is called a ____________.	clone
The process of using restriction enzymes to create DNA fragments that can be seperated by electrophoresis and compared is known as____________.	DNA Fingerprinting
Bergey's Manual includes information on two domains: bacteria and _____________.	Archaea.
A map that shows the evolutionary relationships of organisms among organisms is the _________________.	cladogram
A test that determins which phages a bacterium is susceptible to is called_____________.	phage-typing
True or False. Archaea cause disease in humans	False
Which is NOT included in Domain Eukarya? a photosynthetic bacterium, a slime mold, a ciliate, a fern, a yeast	a photosynthetic bacterium
Members of the Kingdom Fungi are ___________.	either unicellular or multicellular
A key difference between classification methods and identification methhods is that classification methods______________	determine evolutionary relationships of organisms
True or False. The western blot technique identifies signature rRNA sequences of microbes	False
What methods can identify bacteria in a sample without culturing the bacteria?	flow cytometry, biochemical testing, phage typing, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)
Which of the following is not used in DNA fingerprinting? agarose gel electrophoresis antibodies DNA Stain restriction enzymes	antibodies
The sequencing of rRNA__________.	can yeild information about evolutionary relatedness
DNA probes ____________.	are DNA fragments
True or False. Nitrogen fixation can occur only in bacteria that live in a symbiotic relationship with legumes.	False
True or False. Mycobacteria are acid fast.	True
True or False. Thiobacillus and Nitrobacter are chemoautotraphs.	True
True or False. Zoogloea is a bacterium that interferes with the successful operation of sewage treatment.	False
Legionella, Pseudomonas, Vibrio, Haemophilus, and Enterobacter are in the same class of proteobacter	True
Some members of the domain Archaea are included in the normal microbiata of the human body.	True
The lactobacilli are used in the commercial production of yogurt, buttermilk, and sauerkraut.	True
Prokaryotes in the domain Archaea have peptidoglycan that is indistinguishable from that of prokaryotes	False
Nitrogen fixation and nitrification are two names for the same chemical process.	False
Stalks and other protrusions of bacterial cells are referred to as ___________.	prosthecae
The largest taxonomic group (phylum) of bacteria is the _____________which includes most gram - chemoheterotrophic bacteria.	proteobacteria
Due their commercial value as a source of antibiotics, over 500 species of the genus ______ have been described.	Streptomyces
For reproduction in Chlamydia, the bacterial cells are released from host cells as _________bodies	elementary
The mycoplasmas appear to have evolved from gram + bacteria that have lost genes that enclose peptidoglycan production. This evolutionary loss of genetic material is known as __________________.	degenerative evolution
Salmonella enterica is divided into many groups or "varieties", known as________ based on serology	Serovars
Members of the order Enterobacteriales are commonly referred to as the ________________	enterics
The cynobacteria are believed to have played a key role in changing the Earth's atmosphere due to their production of _______.	Oxygen
Purple and green photosynthetic bacteria carry out___________photosynthesis, a term describing that oxygen is NOT produced as a by product	anoxygenic
Some actinomycetes are similar to filamentous fungi because they___________.	produce asexual reproductive spores
Some members of the genus Rhizobium are notable for their ability to ____________.	form nodules in plant roots that allow nitrogen fixation
True or False. Pelagibacter has a small genome.	False
Enterics are _________________.	facultatively anaerobic, gram-negative rods found in the intestines of animals.
Erwinia bacteria produce the enzyme pectinase. You would expect Erwinia to cause disease in_______.	Plants
Unicellular, nonfilamentous fungi are known as _______________.	yeasts
Fungi are ________________________.	chemoheterotrophs
Fungal spores ________________.	are considered "reproductive" spores.
All of the following are true of yeasts:	some are used to produce ethanol in wine and beer making they are capable of facultative anaerobic growth some reproduce by budding they produce colonies that are similar to bacterial colonies
True or False. Trematodes may have more than one intermediate host.	True
Which structure is NOT found in cestodes? suckers intestine testes scolex cuticle	intestine
A fungus that produces sporangiospores and zygospores and has hyphae without cross-walls would be classified in the category _____________.	Zygomycota
Lichens _________________.	are organisms made of a fungus and photosynthetic partner.
True or False. In a lichen, the fungus appears to make the plasma membrane of the photosynthetic partner more permeable.	True
You observe large (>10)oval cells in a sputum sample from a patient. Your culture of the sample reveals fuzzy filamentous colonies. You conclude that _______________.	the patient has an infection caused by a diamorphic fungus
A unicellular alga with cell walls containing pectin and silica is isolated from coastal waters. It is capable oil for energy. This alga is most likely a ________.	diatom
Fungi that produce only asexual spores are called _______________.	anamorphs/anamophic
Diseases caused by fungi are called _____________.	mycosis
The filaments of molds and fleshly fungi are referred to as	hyphae, or mycelium, or mycelia
The ____________ is the part of a tapeworm that attaches to the host.	scolex
An anthropod that transmits pathogenic microbes to a host is known as a/an	vector
A protective structure formed by certain protozoa under adverse conditions is called a/an__________________.	cyst
____________ are symbiotic fungi that help plant roots absorb water and minerals from the soil.	Mycorrhizae
Cestodes (tapeworms) have many segments known as _____________that contain reproductive structures.	proglottids
Trematodes are also known as	flukes
True or False. Members of fungal phylum are characterized by a specific type of sexual spore.	True
Most plants benefit from symbiotic fungal partners.	True
Because of their role as producers in the aquatic enviroment, algae are beneficial to all of the other organisms ecosystem.	False
All fungi produce both asexual spores and sexual spores.	False
Slime molds are in the fungi kingdom.	False
Humans are intermediate hosts for Plasmodium spp.	True
All algae are either filamentous or unicellular	False
The phylum Platyhelminthes contains the cestodes and trematodes.	True
Nematodes are always intestinal parasites.	False
Algae differ from fungi in that algae ________.	are autotrophs
Mutualism	have a symbiotic relationship in which both partners benefit. (fungus & either algae or cynobacteria)
Most plants benefit from symbiotic fungal partners	True
Viruses possess genetic material comprised of ___________.	DNA or RNA
True or False. The release of nonenveloped viruses (a process of viral multipication) will most likely damage a cell.	True
A double stranded, enveloped DNA virus that contains reverse transcritase belongs to which family?	Hepadnaviridae
Members of the Adenoviridae cause ________.	the common cold
Cell lines derived from transformed (cancerous) cells are called	continuous cell lines
During the bacteriophage lysogenic cycle, ________________.	phage DNA is inserted into the host chromosome
After the attachment and entry of a virus into a host cell, what is the next step int he multiplication of	uncoating
An example of a latent virus infection is _________.	shingles
A virus may contain any of any of the following EXCEPT spike protiens, lipid envelope, capsid protiens, ssRNA ribosomes	ribosomes
Viruses that use RNA as a template for transcribing DNA include_______________.	Retroviridae
Prion diseases can be acquired in all of the following ways except by ____________. transplantation, inherited, direct contact, contaminated surgical instruments, ingestion	direct contact
In polio virus replication, the function of the antisense (-strand)RNA is to ____________.	serve as a template for the production of sense (+ stand)RNA
How could a virus pick up a human oncogene?	specialized transduction
All of the following are RNA viruses EXCEPT, poliovirus, hepatitis B virus, rabies virus, togavirus, HIV-1 virus	hepatitus B
To what does the term viral species refer?	a group of viruses sharing the same genetic information and structure
What enzyme is necessary for the replication of a +strand RNA virus?	RNA-dependent DNA polymerase
True or False. Attachment of animal viruses to host cells is random and non specific.	False
Viruses are considered obligatory intracellular __________.	parasites
The potential use of viruses that infect bacteria to treat bacterial infections in humans is known as ______________.	phage therapy/bacteriophage therapy
Viruses that possess a/an ________ can penetrate the host cell by fusion.	envelope
When viruses infect cell cultures, they often produce damage to the cells called _______	cytopathic effect
Retroviridae use an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, called _________to transcribe DNA	reverse transcriptase
The toxin production by Corynebacterium diphtheriae carrying a temperate phage is an example of _____________	phage conversion
Infectious agents known as _________cause Creutzfeldt-Jakon disease (CJD)	prions
Viruses that are capable of inducing tumors in animals are called _______ viruses.	oncogenic
Some plant diseases are caused by________, short fragments of naked RNA	viroids
True or False. The H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) virus is readily spread from human to human.	false
Virus spikes are used for attachement to the host cell.	True
During lysogeny, the phage remains latent	True
Ebola virus is one of the smallest viruses that infect humans.	True
Poliovirus has a + strand RNA that acts as the messenger RNA	True
During the maturation of enveloped viruses, the envelope is acquired through budding from the host cell	True
Viruses are easily seen using a compound light microscope.	False
A virion is an infectious fragment of "naked"RNA	False
Structurally, bacteriophages are complex viruses.	True
Viruses can be grown only in living animal or plant host	false
What is the study of fungi?	Mycology
Is the number of serious fungal infections increasing or decreasing?	increasing
What are aerobic or facultatively anaerobic chemoheterotrophs?	Fungi
What are mostly decomposers and a few are parasites of plants and animals?	Fungi
What actually caused the great Irish migration to the US?	An alga called phytophthora infestans
Do fungi have sexual or asexual spores?	Both sexual and asexual
What nutritional type are fungi?	Chemoheterotroph
Why are fungi important in the food chain?	They decompose dead plant matter thereby recycling vital elements.
What are symbiotic fungi that help their roots absorb minerals and water from the soil?	Mycorrhizae
yeast identification involves	biochemical tests
Multicellular fungi are identified by their	appearance including colony characteristics and reproductive spores.
fungi colonies are described as	vegetative
a mold or fleshy fungus consists of long filaments of cells joined together is	thallus(body)
long filaments of cells joined together are called	hyphae
Cross-walls that divide hyphae into distinct, uninucleated cell-like units are called	septa
hyphae that contain no septa and appear as long continuous cells with many nuclei are called?	coenocytic hyphae
hyphae grow to form a filamentous mass called	mycelium
nonfilamentous unicellular fungi that are typically spherical or oval are	yeasts
What divides unevenly	budding yeast
one yeast cell can in time produce up to how many daughter cells by budding?	24
yeast cells that fail to detach themselves and form short chains of cells are called?	pseudohypha
What divides evenly to produce two new cells?	fission yeasts
What are fungi called that can have two forms of growth?	dimorphism
What are fungi usually identified by?	spore type
What are asexual spores formed by	the hyphae of one organism
fusion of nuclei from two opposite mating strains of the same species of fungus is called	sexual spores
Fission yeasts divide	symmetrically
budding yeast divide	asymmetrically
Pathogenic dimorphic fungi are yeastlike at____ and moldlike at____ degrees Celcius	37/25
conidia are asexual and arranged in	chains
The three phases of sexual reproduction are	Plasmogamy, karyogamy and meiosis
Karyogamy is when	two maiden strands fuse
The four different groups of sexual reproduction are	Zygomeisis, astromeisis, basidiomeisis, and gludialmeisis
What is the fusion of haploid cells which produce one zygospore?	Zygomeisis
zygosporangium is	a food roughting organism
a unicellular or multicellular spore that is not enclosed in a sac is called	a conidiospore or conidium
Conidia are produced in a chain at the end of a	conidiophore
Conidia fromed by the fragmentation of a septate hypha into single slightly thickened cells are called	arthroconidia
what consists of buds coming off the parent cell?	blastoconidia
a thick walled spre formed by rounding and enlargement within a hyphal segment are	chlamydoconidium
When a haploid nucleus of a donor cell penetrates the cytoplasm of a recipient cell	plasmogamy
When the diploid nucleus gives rise to haploid nuclei(sexual spores) some of which may be genetic recombinant	Meiosis
Ascospores form in a	sac(ascus)
Ascospores can be in	different shapes
Most plant pathogens are _____and some of these do not have ascus	ascomeosis
What does Bergey's manual categories bacteria into?	Taxa based on rRNA sequences
What two domains are prokaryotic organisms classified into?	Archaea and Bacteria
What is essential to life on earth?	Bacteria
Members of the phylum proteobacteria are	gram-negative
What group contains nitrogen-fixing bacteria, chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs?	Alphaproteobacteria
What group contains chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs?	Betaproteobacteria
What are Pseudomonadales, legionellales, vibrionales, enterobacteriales, and pasteurelales are classified as	Gammaproteobacteria
What group contains nitrogen-fixing bacteria, chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs?	Alphaproteobacteria
What group contains chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs?	Betaproteobacteria
What are Pseudomonadales, legionellales, vibrionales, enterobacteriales, and pasteurelales are classified as	Gammaproteobacteria
What are photoautotrophs that use light energy and CO2 and do not produce O2?	Purple and green photosynthetic bacteria
What do Myxococcus and Bdellovibrio in the deltaproteobacteria prey on?	other bacteria
Epsilonproteobacteria include	Campylobacter and Helicobacter
True or False. Several phyla of gram-negative bacteria are not related phylogenetically to the proteobacteria.	True
What are photoautotrophs that use light energy and CO2 and do not produce O2?	Cyanobacteria
Planctomycetes, chlamydiae, spirochetes, bacteriodetes and fusobacteria are examples of	Chemoheterotrophic
In Bergey's Manual, gram-positive bacteria are divided into those with	high or low G + C ratios
What do Myxococcus and Bdellovibrio in the deltaproteobacteria prey on?	other bacteria
Epsilonproteobacteria include	bommon soil bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and several human pathogens
Bacteria with high G+C gram-positive bacteria include	mycobacteria, corynebacteria and actinomycetes
What are photoautotrophs that use light energy and CO2 and do produce O2?	Cyanobacteria
Planctomycetes, chlamydiae, spirochetes, bacteriodetes and fusobacteria are examples of	Chemoheterotrophic
In Bergey's Manual, gram-positive bacteria are divided into those with	high or low G + C ratios
Bacteria with low G+C gram-positive bacteria include	bommon soil bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and several human pathogens
Bacteria with high G+C gram-positive bacteria include	mycobacteria, corynebacteria and actinomycetes
Extreme halophiles, extreme thermophiles and methanogens are included in	Archaea
What can be used to uncover the presence of bacteria that can't be cultured in the laboratory?	PCR
If you gram-stained the bacteria that live in the human intestine, you would expect to find mostly	Gram-negative, nitrogen-fixing bacteria
What can form many shapes and are gram-negative?	Proteobacteria
What is the largest taxonomic group of bacteria?	Proteobacteria
The science of the classification of organisms is?	Taxonomy
What is the goal of taxonomy?	To show relationship among organisms.
What provides a means to identifying organisms?	Taxonomy
What is phylogeny?	The evolutionary history of a group of organisms.
True or False. Taxonomy provides universal names for organisms.	True
What provides a reference for identifying organisms?	Taxonomy
What is phylogeny?	The evolutionary history of a group of organisms.
What does the taxonomic hierarchy show us?	The evolutionary, or phylogenetic, relationships among organisms.
What shows the degree of similarities among organisms?	Taxa
What is the study of the evolutionary history of organisms?	Systematics or phylogeny
When and who was responsible for dividing living organisms into two kingdoms Plantae and Animalia?	1735 Carolus Linnaeus
When and who proposed that bacteria and fungi be placed in the plant kingdom?	1857 Carl von Nageli
When and who proposed that the kingdom protista should include bacteria, protozoa, algae and fungi?	1866 Ernst Haeckel
When was Fungi placed in their own kingdom?	1959
When and who names prokaryotes as the cells having no nucleas from the nucleated cells of plants and animals.	1937 Edouard Chatton
When and who provided the current definition of Prokaryotes as cells in which the nuclear material is not surrounded by a nuclear membrane?	1961 Roger Stanier
When and who proposed the kingdom prokaryotae?	1968 Robert G.E Murray
When and who founded the five-kingdom system in which prokaryotes were placed in the kingdom prokaryotae?	1969 Robert H Whittaker
What provides a method for comparing cells?	Ribosomes
When and who proposed elevating the three cell types to a level above kingdom?	1978 Carl R Woese
What level did Carl R Woese propose to elevate the three cell tpes to?	Domain
In the domain system what are the organisms classified by?	Cell type
animals, plants fungi and protists are in what domain?	Domain Eukarya
Pathogenic prokaryotes as well as many of the nonpathogenic prokaryotes found in soil and water are part of what domain?	Domain Bacteria
Prokaryotes that do not have peptidoglycan in their cell walls make up which domain?	Domain Archaea
What lives in extreme enviroments and carries out unusual metabolic processes?	Domain Archaea
What are the three major groups of Archaea?	Methanogens, extreme halophiles, hyperthermophiles
Strict anaerobes that produce methane(CH4) from carbon dioxide and hydrogen are?	Methanogens
What requires high concentrations of salt for survival?	Extreme halophiles
What normally grows in extremely hot enviroments?	Hyperthermophiles
Domains can be divided into?	Kingdoms
What was one of the earliest cells?	Thermotoga
What is it called when the chloroplast and the mitochondria come in to the larger cells to provide energy?	Endosymbiotic Theory
What provides tools for clarifying the evolution of organisms, as well as their interrelationships?	Taxonomy
This is when organisms are grouped into taxa according to phylogenetic relationships(from a common ancestor).	Phylogenetic Hierarchy
Some of the information for eukaryotic relationships is obtained from what?	Fossil record
How are prokaryotic relationships determined?	By rRNA sequencing
Phylobenetics states that	each species retains some characteristics of its ancestor
Talking about relatedness is	Phylogenetics
grouping organisms according to common properties implies that a group of organisms evolved from a common ancestor is the	phylogenetic hierarchy
Where are the rules for assigning names to bacteria established?	Committee on systematic prokaryotes
Rules for naming fungi and algae are published in the	International code of botanical nomenclature
Rules for naming Protozoa are found in the	International code of zoological nomenclature
What is a group of organisms that interbreed with each other but does not breed with individuals of another species?	Eukaryotic species
Similar species are grouped into	Genus
related genera make up a	family
A group of similar families constitutes an	order
A group of similar orders make up a	class
Related classes make up a	phylum
All phyla or divisions that are related to each other make up a	kingdoms
Related kingdoms are grouped into a	domain
Bergeys Manual of systematic bacteriology is the standard reference for	bacterial classification
A group of bacteria derived from a single cell is called	a strain
What are closely related strains called	Bacterial species
Eukaryotic organisms may be classified into the	Kingdom Fungi, Plantae, or Animalia
What are mostly unicellular organisms that are currently being placed into kingdoms?	Protists
What are absorptive chemoheterotrophs that develop from spores?	Fungi
Where are multicellular photoautotrophs placed?	Kingdom Plantae
What are multicellular ingestive heterotrophs classified as?	Animalia
Are viruses placed into a kingdom?	No, they are not composed of cells and cannot grow without a host cell
What is a viral species?	a population of viruses with similar characteristics that occupies a particular ecological niche
What is the problem with using common names to name organisms?	Language varies, and the meaning of words vary in different locations. Elk, Moose
What is a population of cells with similar characteristics?	Prokaryotic Species
Culture is	grown in laboratory media
Clone is	a population of cells derived from a single cell(specific cell)
What is a strain	Genetically different cells within a clone.
What is a group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves?	Eukaryotic species
Binomial nomenclature is used worldwide which allows	enables sharing of knowledge efficiently and accurately
What consists of species that differ from each other in certain ways but are related by descent?	Genus
Is cell division in bacteria directly tied to sexual conjugation?	No
Which kingdom is the catchall kingdom for a variety of organisms that do not fit into other kingdoms?	Protista
Organisms once classified as protists are being divided into	clades, genetically related groups.
Unicellular yeasts, multicellular molds, and macroscopic species are included in what kingdom?	Fungi
What does fungi develop from?	spores or fragments of hyphae
Some algae and all mosses, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants are in which kingdom?	Plantae
All members of the plantae kingdom are	multicellular
Plants use photosynthesis to obtain energy. What is photosynthesis?	The process that converts carbon dioxide and water into organic molecules used by the cell
Animalia is the kingdom of	multicellular organisms with no cell walls; chemoheterotrophic
Sponges, various worms, insects, and animals with backbones are in which kingdom	Animalia
What uses the anabolic machinery within living things to multiply?	Viruses
What is a population of viruses with similar characteristics that occupies a particular ecological niche?	Viral species
Do plantae have cell walls?	Yes made of cellulose
What are fungi cells walls made of?	Chitin
Do viruses have a species and taxonomy?	Yes, it just doesn't go as far as the other groups
What is the standard reference for laboratory identification of bacteria?	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
What are useful in identifying microorganisms, especially when aided by differential staining techniques?	Morphological characteristics
What is used in identifying microorganisms?	The presence of various enzymes, as determined by biochemical tests.
What test involves the reactions of microorganisms with specific antibodies and are useful in determining the identity of strains and species, as well as relationships among organisms?	Serological
What are examples of serological tests?	ELISA and Western blotting
What is the identification of bacterial species and strains by determining their susceptibility to various phages?	Phage typing
True or False. Fatty acid profiles can be used to identify some organisms.	True
What measures the physical and chemical characteristics of cells?	Flow cytometry
The percentage of GC base pairs in the nucleic acid of cells can be used in the classification of	organisms
The number and sizes of DNA fragments, or DNA fingerprints, produced by restriction enzymes are used to determine	genetic similarities
What can be used to amplify a small amount of microbial DNA in a sample?	polymerase chain reaction(PCR)
The presence or indentification of an organism is indicated by	amplified DNA
What are examples of hybridization technique?	Southern Blotting, DNA chips and FISH
The sequence of bases in ribosomal RNA can be used in	the classification of organisms
Dichotomous keys are used for	the identification of organisms
Cladograms show	phylogenetic relatioships among organisms
Placing organisms in groups of related species is	Classification
Matching characteristics of an "UNKNOWN" organisms to lists of known organisms is	Identification
Biochemical tests	Determine presence of bacterial enzymes
Differential medias	help us to determine how this thing metabolizes different agents to help us in identification.
What are usually not nutritive and are disigned to prolong viability of fastidious pathogens	Transport media
What test lets us know if the antibodies are present but it will only detect specifics?	ELISA
In what test are we actually testing for proteins checking to see if a specific protein is there and if it is there it means that the organism is there?	Western Blotting
What test is asking a series of yes or no questions which will lead you to the answer that you actually want?	Dichotomous key
cladogram is	the sequence of the organism

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