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Microbiology
Microbes to KNOW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Saccharomyces Cerevisiae example | bread yeast |
| Saccharomyces Cerevisiae characteristics | fungus eukaryote unicellular |
| Bacillus Anthracis sickness | Anthrax |
| Bacillus Anthracis shape and grouping | streptobacillus |
| Bacillus Anthracis characteristics | bacterium, prokaryote, gram positive, has capsule glycocaylx |
| Penicillium Chryosogenum characteristics | fungus-mold, eukaryotic, produces penicillin (almost all antibiotics produced from microbes growing in the dirt) |
| Corynebacterium Diphtheria characteristics | bacterium, gram positive, pleomorphic (more than one shape), causes diphtheria |
| Corynebacterium Diphtheria shapes | O, oval, boomerang (pleomorphic) |
| which bacterium has a capsule glycocaylx | B. anthracis |
| which microbe has cytoplasmic inclusions - volutin - phosphate | C. diptheriae |
| which microbe that is gram positive produces endospore | B. anthracis |
| Microbe that is gram negative, bacillus shaped, peritrichous | E. coli |
| Microbe that contains some normal flora and some cause disease and bloody diarrhea | E. coli |
| Strain O157: H7 is from what microbe | E. coli |
| What does 0157 in E. coli stand for | O-specific polysaccaride |
| H7 in E. coli is a | protein found in flagellum |
| What cytoplasmic inclusion does E. coli have | Glycogen granules - glucose |
| What bacteria are most likely to have endospores | Clostridum botulinum, C. tetani, and Bacillus anthracis |
| Are Clostridum botulinum gram positive or gram negative | Gram positive |
| Which microbes contain mycolic acid in their cell walls | Myobacterium tuberculosis and leprae |
| Which microbes contain lipid cytoplasmic inclusions | Myobacterium leprae and tuberculosis |
| What microbe causes tuberculosis | Myobacterium tuberculosis |
| Which microbe causes leprosy | Myobacterium leprae |
| Which microbes are NOT gram positive or gram negative/ | Myobacterium tuberculosis and leprae |
| Fastest growing microbe | E. coli generation time 20 min |
| Which microbes are obligate anaerobe (killed by O2) | Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium tetani and Perfringes |
| Botox comes from | protein poison produced by clostridium botulinum |
| Where is Clostridium botulinum and tetani found | soil |
| What is the name of the protein poison C. tetani and C. botulinum produce | tetanospanismin; botulism toxin |
| Which two microbes are gram negative, spirochetes, and move by axial filaments | Treponena pallidum and Borellia burgdorferi |
| What microbe causes lime disease | Borellia burgdorferi |
| What microbe causes syphilis | Treponena pallidum |
| Microbe that contains volutin (phosphate) cytoplasmic inclusions | corynebacterium diptheriae |