Speedback Assignment 2

Descrição

Chapter 5 - Microbial Metabolism Chapter 6 - Microbial Growth Chapter 7 - The Control of Microbial Growth
elizabeth.merner
Quiz por elizabeth.merner, atualizado more than 1 year ago
elizabeth.merner
Criado por elizabeth.merner mais de 9 anos atrás
12
0

Resumo de Recurso

Questão 1

Questão
A medium that contains yeast extract, glucose, and peptones would be a(n)
Responda
  • complex medium
  • selective medium
  • anaerobic medium
  • chemically defined medium

Questão 2

Questão
A bacterial suspension produces a turbidity reading that corresponds to 5 x 107 CFU/ml. A viable plate count of the same suspension produces a concentration of only 1 x 105 CFU/ml. You most correctly conclude that
Responda
  • you forgot to use the 500x multiplier that is always a part of computing viable counts.
  • turbidity is an indirect counting method and is inherently inaccurate.
  • most of the cells in the suspension are dead.
  • the suspension is safe to drink.

Questão 3

Questão
In metabolism, ______ reactions liberate energy used to make ATP, whereas ______ reactions require energy supplied by the hydrolysis of ATP.
Responda
  • anabolic, catabolic
  • catabolic, anabolic
  • biosynthetic, degradative

Questão 4

Questão
The ATP made by oxidative phosphorylation
Responda
  • is powered by chemiosmosis using a proton gradient.
  • is made at large transmembrane proteins called ATP synthases.
  • represents most of the energy made during respiration.
  • all of the above.

Questão 5

Questão
Why are both the temperatures and times involved in hot air sterilization higher than those involved in steam sterilization?
Responda
  • Heat transfer is more efficient when water is involved.
  • Desiccated organisms are harder to kill.
  • Microbes have more organic material to eat in ovens.
  • Microbes are hydrophobic.

Questão 6

Questão
At which phase of microbial growth is the growth rate identical to the death rate?
Responda
  • lag phase
  • death phase
  • stationary phase
  • log phase

Questão 7

Questão
A bacterial growth experiment began with 100 cells and ended with 409,600 cells. How many generations occurred?
Responda
  • 3
  • 6
  • 24
  • 12 [Log (409,600) - Log (100)]/log 2=12, See Appendix B

Questão 8

Questão
During Glycolysis
Responda
  • ATP is generated by substrate-level phosphorylation
  • carbon dioxide is produced.
  • oxygen is consumed.
  • all of the above.

Questão 9

Questão
Suppose you have a suspension of C. botulinum endospores that has a decimal reduction time (DRT) of 1.5 minutes at 121 °C. If you had 1 x 10 6 endospores, how long (at 121 °C ) would it take to reduce this number to a single organism?
Responda
  • 12 minutes
  • 3 minutes
  • 9 minutes
  • 6 minutes

Questão 10

Questão
The process of destroying vegetative pathogens on living tissue is most correctly called
Responda
  • disinfection.
  • sanitization.
  • sterilization.
  • antisepsis.

Questão 11

Questão
What type of organism would have an optimum growth temperature at about 12 °C?
Responda
  • psychrophile
  • psychrotroph
  • thermophile
  • mesophile

Questão 12

Questão
Plasmas, supercritical fluids, and peroxygens are all
Responda
  • obsolete microbial control methods.
  • new methods used to sterilize.
  • used to grow bacteria.
  • commonly used in surgeries.

Questão 13

Questão
The most important products of the Krebs cycle are
Responda
  • citric acid and pyruvic acid.
  • ATP and water.
  • NADH and FADH2.
  • carbon dioxide and water.

Questão 14

Questão
The method of preserving bacterial cultures that involves sublimation is
Responda
  • drying.
  • deep-freezing.
  • lyophilization.
  • refrigeration.

Questão 15

Questão
The germicidal action of chlorine is due to the formation of
Responda
  • hypochlorous acid.
  • sodium chloride.
  • free oxygen.
  • ozone.

Questão 16

Questão
The net yield of ATP equivalents from one turn of the Krebs cycle (starting with acetyl-CoA) is
Responda
  • 12
  • 36
  • 24
  • 6

Questão 17

Questão
The most common physical method of microbial control in foods is
Responda
  • heat treatment or low temperatures.
  • pressure.
  • radiation.
  • filtration.

Questão 18

Questão
The most resistant microbe (of the ones listed) to chemical biocides is
Responda
  • protozoan cysts.
  • mycobacteria.
  • bacterial endospores.
  • viruses without envelopes.

Questão 19

Questão
A bacterostatic agent
Responda
  • causes bacteria to grow.
  • kills bacteria using an electric charge.
  • kills bacteria.
  • inhibits the growth of bacteria.

Questão 20

Questão
Flavoproteins, cytochromes, and ubiquinones are all part of
Responda
  • the electron transport chain.
  • the pentose phosphate pathway
  • glycolysis.
  • the Krebs cycle.

Questão 21

Questão
Phenolics, biguanides, halogens, alcohols, and probably quaternary ammonium compounds (Quats) all cause damage to the cell’s
Responda
  • wall
  • nucleic acids
  • capsule
  • plasma membrane

Questão 22

Questão
Radiation does most of its lethal damage by causing breaks in, or changes to the microbe’s
Responda
  • plasma membrane.
  • cell wall
  • DNA
  • flagella

Questão 23

Questão
Which of the following is not a common end product of a microbial fermentation?
Responda
  • ethyl alcohol
  • lactic acid
  • glucose
  • CO2

Questão 24

Questão
Organisms that grow deep in the bottom of the ocean (no light) next to hydrogen sulfide vents (source of energy), and are able to fix CO2 in the seawater, would be referred to as
Responda
  • photoheterotrophs.
  • photoautotrophs.
  • chemoautotrophs.
  • chemoheterotrophs.

Questão 25

Questão
Which type of organism is indifferent to either the presence or absence of oxygen?
Responda
  • mircoaerophile
  • obligate anaerobe
  • facultative anaerobe
  • aerotolerant anaerobe

Questão 26

Questão
During photosynthesis, the main products of the light-dependent reactions are ________, whereas the main products of light-independent reactions are __________.
Responda
  • chlorophyll/NADPH and O2
  • lipids/proteins
  • sugars/ATP and water
  • ATP, O2, and NADPH/sugars

Questão 27

Questão
Enzymes
Responda
  • raise the temperature of a chemical reaction.
  • are permanently altered by a chemical reaction.
  • lower the activation energy of a chemical reaction.
  • lower the energy difference between the reactants and products.

Questão 28

Questão
Five bacterial cells with a generation time of 15 minutes were allowed to grow for 8 hours. How many cells are present?
Responda
  • 5 million
  • 3.20 × 108
  • 4.29 × 109
  • 2.15 × 1010

Questão 29

Questão
A sample of milk is diluted 1:2,000,000 and 1 ml samples of this dilution are plated in duplicate. The average plate count is 50 CFU. How many CFU/ml are present in the undiluted milk?
Responda
  • 50,000,000
  • 100,000,000
  • 10,000,000
  • 500,000,000

Questão 30

Questão
Blood agar containing an antibiotic that inhibits gram-positive organisms, would most correctly be called
Responda
  • selective.
  • anaerobic.
  • both selective and differential
  • differential

Semelhante

Chapter 7 - The Blue Print of Life, from DNA to Protein
Dorothy B
Immune System
dsandoval
THE PROTIST MIND MAP
hasvinee
Infection and Disease
hannahcurle
HIV and the immune system
Beth Moore
Protein section 2
MrSujg
Microbiology MCQs 3rd Year Final- PMU
Med Student
Microbiology Test 1 2nd Year PMU
Med Student
Microbiology and Immunology
AchalaM
Horizontal gene transfer
Joe Wanford
Microbiology part 1
Lavinia Hayde