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| Time required for a population to double. |
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| logarithmic or geometric growth |
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| The kind of rapid growth bacteria undergo. |
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| Period of time between bacterial growth |
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| period of logarithmic bacterial growth |
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| Period of bacterial growth when the number of bacteria being produced and dying are equal. |
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| Period of bacterial growth curve when bacteria are rapidly declining in numbers. |
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running out of nutrients
production of toxic wastes |
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| two conditions that lead to the stationary period of bacterial growth curve |
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| Infection caused by a bacteria that has a short generation time |
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| Infection caused by a bacteria that has a long generation time. |
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| Duration of the lag period of bacterial growth. |
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| Duration of the log period of bacterial growth. |
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| Duration of the stationary period of bacterial growth. |
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| Duration of the decline/death period of the bacterial growth curve. |
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Temperature
Oxygen
pH
Food (nutrients)
Enzymes |
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| 5 Important Bacterial Growth Requirements |
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Low High Optimum
-5 20 10-15
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| Low, High and Optimum temperature requirements for psychrophiles (in Celcius) |
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| moderate temperature loving bacteria |
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Low High Optimum
20 45 37 |
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| Low, high, and optimum temperature requirements for mesophiles (in Celcius) |
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Low High Optimum
35 90 55 |
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| Low, high and optimum temperature for thermophiles (in Celcius) |
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| O2 will kill these organisms |
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| can live with or without O2 |
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| can live with or without O2, but prefer environments with O2 |
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| can live with or without O2, but prefer environments without O2 |
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| Measures the level of acid or base in a chemical. |
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| Most bacteria prefer to live at a pH of ____________. |
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| gain energy from light sources |
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| gain food/energy from chemicals |
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| chemotrophs that need very simple nutrients and can make the rest themselves |
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| need more complex nutrients, such as lipids, proteins, and sugar |
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| fastidious chemoheterotrophs |
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| need very complex nutrients found in blood or whole tissue |
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| chemoheterotrophs and fastidious chemoheterotrophs |
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| types of bacteria that affect humans based on where they get their source of energy |
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| organisms that use living matter as food |
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| organisms that used non-living matter as a source of nutrients |
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| can use either living or non-living matter as food source |
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| enzyme that speeds up a cell's chemical reactions |
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-
- unchanged in chemical reaction
- can be used over and over
- made of protein
- most end with -ase
- are specific
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| 5 Characteristics of enzymes |
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| enzymes that work outside the cell |
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| enzymes that work inside the cell |
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| enzymes that are made when they are needed |
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| enzymes that are always present |
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| some enzymes need these vitamins as helpers |
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| metabolic process that breaks down substrate into products |
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| metabolic process that builds cell parts |
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