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Microbiology
Undergraduate 4
02/25/2012

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1. Most bacteria reproduce by
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Binary fission
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2. Medium on which Gram positive organisms turn green and Gram negative organisms turn blue would be
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Differential
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3. When a molecule gets reduced, it
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Gains electrons
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4. Which one of the following molecules could pass easily through a cell membrane without the use of transport protein?
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Carbon Dioxide
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5. A fastidious bacterium
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Refuses to accept DNA from another
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6. The primary purpose of the Gas-Pak gar is to grow bacteria
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Inhibited by oxygen
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7. Most oxidation reactions in bacteria involve
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Removal of H ions and electrons
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8. A molecule used to donate hydrogen atoms/electrons in biosynthetic reactions is
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NADPH
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9. O-antigens of LPS consist of a group of different sugars that is repeated over and over. This group of sugars is synthesized
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By specific enzymes
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10. A growth medium containing water, magnesium, sulfate, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, glucose, and beef extract is
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Complex media
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11. Central metabolism describes
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B and C; metabolic pathways that all nutrients eventually enter and passage of electrons along electron transport chain
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12. Which of the following would NOT be a suitable terminal electron acceptor in metabolism
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CH4
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13. In fermentation, the electrons removed from carbon atoms of glucose are accepted by
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Pyruvic acid
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14. In group translocation
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All the above
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15. The easiest way to determine the Km is to
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Make a graph of 1/V and 1/S and determine the x-intercept
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16. Ribose needed to make ATP, RNA, and DNA is formed in
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Pentose phosphate pathway
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17. FADH2 results in production of fewer ATPs than NADH because
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It has lower tendency to give up electrons to oxygen
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18. Which method of counting requires the bacteria be alive
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Plate count
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19. Change in electrical resistance is counted as bacterium
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Coulter Counter
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20. Requires microscope
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Petroff-Hausser
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21. Organisms that may be found living in icy waters are
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Psychrophiles
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22. Bacteria do not grow in grape jelly because
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Hypertonic solution, sucks the water out of them
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23. Reason chemiosmosis must occur at cell membrane
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Lipids act as insulator between positive and negative charges
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24. When the bacterial population is doubling at regular intervals and is not limited for any nutrients
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Exponential phase
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25. Bacterium that oxidize hydrogen sulfide for energy and obtain carbon from carbon dioxide is
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Chemoautotroph
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26. During which phase of growth can the amount of peptidoglycan be used reliably to estimate the change in numbers of bacteria over time
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Exponential phase
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28. Medium that restricts growth of all but certain bacteria
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Selective
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29. Permease is
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Grows in oxygen but only ferments
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30. Facultative aerobe
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Can grow either with oxygen or by fermentation
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31. Process by which proteins are made on ribosomes
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Translation
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32. Krebs cycle is called a cycle because it regenerates a molecule of
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Oxaloacetic acid
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33. In glycolysis, each molecule of glucose eventually produced____ molecules of pyruvic acid
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2
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34. Smallest to largest
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Acetyl coA, ATPase, ribosome, Pseudomonas, Liver cell
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35. C-H bonds provide a lot of energy while C-O provide little energy
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36. Generation time on a graph—look at X axis and see how long it takes it to double
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