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Chapter Test 2 Review Chapter 6-Vocabulary

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