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Micro Hybird Bates
Chapter Test 2 Review Chapter 6-Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colony | Population of cells that arises from a single cell often called a "Colony-Forming unit" |
| Psychrophiles | Cold loving microbes |
| Mesophiles | Moderate temp loving microbes |
| Thermophiles | Heat loving microbes |
| Plasmolysis | Loss of water from a cell in hyper-tonic environment |
| Halophiles | Organism that requires a high salt concentration for growth |
| Acidiophiles | Grow in acidic environments, below pH 4 |
| Obligate aerobes | Organism that require molecular oxygen to live |
| Facultative anaerobes | An organism that can grow with or w/o molecular oxygen |
| Obligate anaerobes | An organism that does not use molecular O2 and is killed in the presence of O2 |
| Aerotolerant anaerobes | Cannot use O2 for growth but tolerate it fairly well. (ex. pickles & cheese) |
| Microaerophiles | An organism that grows best in an environment with less molecular O2 than is normally found in air |
| Biofilms | A microbial community that usually forms a slimy layer on a surface (plaque on teeth, rock in pond) |
| CFU | Visible bacterial colonies on solid media |
| Dilution | Reducing the concentration of a chemical |
| Turbidity | The cloudiness of a suspension |