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Every organism has a range of suitable conditions it can live in; minimal, optimal, and maximum conditions. |
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0-30 degrees Celsius; grow well at refrigerator temperature = food spoilage |
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10-50 degrees Celsius; refrigeration based off principle many pathogenic microbes don't grow very well outside of the 20-40 "Danger Zone" |
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the process in plant cells where the cytoplasm pulls away from the cell wall due to the loss of water through osmosis |
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extremophile organisms that thrive in environments with very high concentrations of salt |
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Important elements for survival |
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Nitrogen, Sulfur, Phosphorus |
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Wide variety of locations, can be toxic in high amounts ex. Fe, Cu, Zn, Mg |
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Essential toxic and has toxic forms |
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can grow with or without oxygen, but greater with oxygen |
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only grows in the absence of oxygen |
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doesn't utilize oxygen but can grow in its' presence |
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only grows in small concentrations of oxygen |
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superoxide dismutase detoxifies superoxide radicals/anions; converts them into oxygen (diatomic) and hydrogen peroxide |
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detoxifies hydrogen peroxide, converts it into water and oxygen (diatomic); our cells have catalase |
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also detoxifies hydrogen peroxide, converts it into water only |
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essential organic compounds an organism is unable to synthesize |
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matrix made of DNA, polysaccharides, and proteins; cells communicate through film by quorum sensing. Biofilms make microbes more pathogenic, harder for drugs to penetrate film to reach cells. |
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nutrient material prepared for the growth of microorganisms |
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microbes introduced into a media to initiate growth |
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microbes that grow and multiply in or on a culture medium |
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complex polysaccharide derived from marine algae |
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chemically defined medium |
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exact chemical composition is known |
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made up of nutrients including extracts from yeasts, meat, plants, or digests |
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Complex media (liquid form) |
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Complex media (nutrient broth + nutrient agar) |
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grown in a medium with chemicals that bind and use harmful oxygen or in a had where a candle or sack of CO2 and H2 deplete the oxygen |
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microbes that grow well in high levels of CO2 |
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designed to suppress the growth of unwanted bacteria and encourage the growth of desired microbes |
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makes it easier to distinguish colonies of different microbes based one color changes in the media as a result of certain microbe by-products |
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provides nutrients and environmental conditions that favor the growth of a particular microbe but not others; like selective but focus is to increase number of desired microbes. |
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1-basic microbiology teaching lab 2-open bench tops, gloves, lab coats, and possible eye masks required 3-for highly infectious airborne bacterial; uses safety cabinet, and negatively air pressurized filters for the lab room 4-only a few of these lab types in the US; lab is a sealed environment, under negative pressure, HEPA filters, personal wear space suits. |
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theoretically arises from a single spore/microbe |
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preserving bacteria: Deep Freezing |
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pure liquid culture is quick frozen; lasts several years |
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preserving bacteria: Lyophilization |
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freeze-drying; quick frozen and then water removed with vacuum, lasts several years. |
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time required for a cell to divide |
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little to no cell division, 1 hr to several days; time for intense metabolic activity |
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Log phase (exponential growth phase) |
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cellular reproduction most productive, generation time is constant, most metabolic activity |
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period of equilibrium, number of microbe deaths balanced by newly formed microbes |
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nutrients used up/build up of by-products so number of deaths exceeds division; microbe population brought down to a sustainable size |
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plate count (direct measurements of microbial growth) |
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measures the number of viable cells; assumes each bacteria is a CFU; serial dilutions are used to decrease the number of CFUs to make the counting practical. |
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pour plate (direct measurements of microbial growth) |
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bacterial dilution mixed with agar before setting; can damage heat sensitive microbes and some will grow beneath surface, incubated, and CFU's counted |
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spread plate (direct measurements of microbial growth) |
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bacterial dilution spread onto the agar, incubated, and CFU's counted |
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filtration (direct measurements of microbial growth) |
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used to count number of bacteria in low concentration in a liquid |
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MPN (direct measurements of microbial growth) |
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most probable number; is only a statement that the bacterial population falls within a certain range based of statistics; based on there number of bacteria required for growth in a medium and bacterial solution concentrations |
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direct microscopic count (direct measurements of microbial growth) |
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bacterial suspension placed on microscope slide and microbes counts per volume |
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turbidity (indirect measurement of microbial growth) |
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bacteria in liquid medium have light |
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metabolic activity (indirect measurement of microbial growth) |
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measures amount of certain by-product to estimate amount of bacteria |
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dry weight (indirect measurement of microbial growth) |
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measure desiccated microbes |
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