BMS1026 microbiology

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bacterial slime layers:
are unorganised and loosely attached
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which growth phase has growth at its maximum and all nutrients in excess
exponential phase
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viruses are:
obligate intracellular parasites
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the un-resitrictive, bi directional flow of protoplasm between filamentous fungal cells is known as
cytoplasmic streaming
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during the lysogenic cycle of viral replication:
viral DNA is integrated into the hosts DNA
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asexual spores from ascomycota are:
conidia spores
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what is the term used to describe microbes that prefer anaerobic conditions but can respire aerobically
facultative aerobes
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to prevent DNA unwinding under extreme temperatures bacteria can:
have reverse DNA gyrase enzymes
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virulence is:
the degree of pathology caused by the organism eg a measure of how larger infectious does is needed and how series the disease cased is
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exotoxin reactions are caused by:
toxins secreted by the bacterium, often diffusible polypeptides
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infectious diseases are those that:
are caused by microorganisms and are transmittable
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a disease occurring at in unusually high number of individuals in a population at the same time is known as:
an epidemic
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stimulating inflammation by degranulation causing the release of histamine is a feature of which immune cell?
mast cell
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b cells producing antibodies in response to specific antigens is part of the:
humoral response
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during the production of citric acid, pelleted morphology is used to:
disrupt the tca cycle
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lipids can be produced by limiting the phosphate supply to which microorganism?
alicaligenes
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autotroph mutants are used during which process
production of amino acids
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grapes are harvested for win production when:
the malic acid to sucrose ratio decreases
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which product is not commonly produced from GMO organisms with recombinant DNA:
antibiotics
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which is the most specific target for antibiotics?
cell wall
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which pathogen requires a very high infectious dose
vibrio cholerae
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which pathogen is transmitted by inhaling bacteria in fine water droplets from shower heads and air con systems?
legionella pneumophilia
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has two infection routes depending on whether the bacteria is heat stable or liable
bacillius cereus
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toxic shock syndrome, imptigo and osteolmyelitis are all caused by which micro-organism?
staphylococcus aureus
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which stage in a malarial infection do merozoites form from a dividing schizont
exoerythrocytic stage
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yersina pestis is spread by which vector?
fleas
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syphilis causes which symptoms?
painless chancre, fever and neurological
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rickettsia species:
all of the answers
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which STI can be transmitted to infants during childbirth?
gonorrhoea
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malaria causes which symptoms?
neck stiffness, abnormal breathing and fever/chills
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