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Lab exams 1

front 1

Explain what happened to the field of vision with an increased magnifications?

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With an increase of magnifications the field of vision decreased. ( see smaller)

front 2

Explain the procedure for focusing a slide under 100x. Begin with 4X and include, how emissions oil is placed on a slide?

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  • Plug microscope
  • Turn it on
  • Clean the ocular lens
  • Place the glass slide on stage clips
  • Begin with the 4x by using the coarse objective lens
  • Then 10x
  • 40x by sing the fine adjustment knob
  • Then switch for 100x add oil
  • Then use the fine adjustment knob to help bringing the slide so it could touch with the 100x objectives lens
  • Then observe using the ocular lens

front 3

Why is immersion oil use with the 100x objectives?

back 3

To refract the light and to see clearer and shaper

front 4

State function of the iris diagram?

back 4

To control the amount of light that that pass through the specimen.

front 5

Explain the difference between magnifications and resolution?

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Magnifications is control the size while resolution control the clarity of how clear and sharpe you could see.

front 6

Defined the term of working distance?

back 6

The distance between the objectives lens ans the specimen

front 7

State what happen to working distance when magnification increases?

back 7

When magnification increase the working distance decrease. ( probably see a small portion ot the image )

front 8

Explain why you think the light microscope is important for Understanding the biology you are studying in this course, especially studying bacteria, algae, fungi and protozoa?

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Because bacteria are to small to see with the naked eyes so we used light microscope for clarity.

front 9

There are various types of microscopes. Why are there are so many different type of microscopes and what specific observations can be made using the microscopes mentioned?

back 9

Because of the different bacteria structure for example some microscopes are use to see shape while others for movement

front 10

What information of other field of biology can be gained by studying bacteria?

back 10

We can utilities them for bio remediation and also we would be able to identify the pathogenic and non pathogenic bacteria and and what to used for treatment

front 11

Give an example of basic and acidic dye?

back 11

  • Basic crystal violet
  • Acidic India ink

front 12

Explain why basic dye are often used in microbiology?

back 12

Because bacteria are to small to see with the naked eyes so we use stains for contrasts and visibility

front 13

Defined bacteria cell morphology?

back 13

It the shapes, the size, the structure of a bacteria

front 14

Name three common bacteria shape?

back 14

  • Bacillus
  • Vibrio
  • Spirochet

front 15

Explain the steps involved in preparing a smear front a broth culture. How would this procedure differ if a bacteria culture an agar slant was used?

back 15

The step for s broth culture

  • Label
  • Smear using sterile needle loop
  • Air dry
  • Heat fix
  • Add crystal violet depending of the sty of Smear for 1 minutes
  • Wash
  • Add alcohol
  • Wash
  • Add safranin 30 second
  • Wash
  • Put inside bibulous paper
  • Observe under 100x objectives

The difference between broth and crystal is that for agar would need to added water before Smearing while for the broth is already liquid it doesn't require to added water.

front 16

Why are Smear heat fixed prior to staining?

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To kill and prepare the bacteria or for adherence into the glass slide .

front 17

Described the morphology of Staphylococcus aureus?

back 17

It will appear purple for gram staining with rod like shape cluster together

front 18

State one advantage or disadvantage of heat fixing bacterial smears?

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  • Advantage: they can adhere to the slide
  • Disadvantage: distord or damage the cell

front 19

Described other ways. That microorganisms could be examined and identify beyond the techniques you perform in lab?

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By using the DNA pylomorase methods

front 20

How do you think some of the earlier scientists discovered there were benefits or advantage to using certain dyes in order to stain cell they were observing under the microscope?

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Through trial and errors

front 21

give an example of a gram positive rod ?

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  • Escherichia coli
  • Staphylococcus aureus

front 22

Described the gram reaction and morphology of Staphylococcus aureus?

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They are gram positive bacteria with cocci shape

front 23

Explain why iodine is used in the Gram staining procedure?

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To help intensity the bacteria and also help it bind to the stain to form the crystal violet

front 24

Explain why it is necessary to use 2 stains crystal violet and safranin in gram staining?

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Because of the different structure of cell wall for example gram-positive have a thick cell wall which make it hard to bind to the layer while gram negative have a thin cell wall

front 25

Explain gram stain is considered a differential staining procedure?

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Because we used more than one fye and also it help differentiates into group base on their chemical reaction

front 26

State one factor that effect gram staining result?

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Not properly Smear which result in the cell being damaged

front 27

How would a person who's colorblind go about interpreting gram staining results?

back 27

By suing a contrast magnification or by using a colleague.

front 28

If you want to observe colonies of S.marcescens, what form of culture medium would you used ? Explain why

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I would used a solid agar because it help to observer the individual colonies

front 29

Why are the necks of test tube flamed during the aseptice transfer procedure?

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To help sterilize and prevent contamination

front 30

Are there any situations where it would be important to study microbiology without using pure cultures? Provide an explanation for your answer

back 30

Yes because of their natural environment

front 31

Studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, have recently been conducted by isolating the DNA of M. tuberculosis from patients. Explain the possible advantage and disadvantages of conducting studies in this manner?

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  • Rapid identification, improved diagnosis test
  • Inability to study live bacteria

front 32

Explains in a series of step how to transfer a bacteria culture from an agar slamt to a test tube of nutrients broth?

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  • Prepared work place
  • Sterile loop
  • Open the agar
  • Use Sterile loop with bacteria
  • Transfer to nutrients broth
  • Recap
  • Sterile loop
  • Clean up

front 33

Why it is important to become skills and efficient in aseptic transfer techniques?

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Because it help ensure accurate results and maintenance safety and contamination

front 34

Name three source of bacteria contaminated

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  • Hands
  • Unproper sterile
  • Breath

front 35

E.coli is aseptically transferred into thbe of nutrients btoh and if incubation for 34 hourse at 37C . Describe the appearance of the tube indicating E.coli grew?

back 35

It would appear milky and cloudy

front 36

Defined the term colony?

back 36

A growth of visible cluster of bacteria living together

front 37

State one reason why acid fast organisms are hard to stain?

back 37

Because of their waxy lipid layer known as mycolic acid in the cell wall

front 38

Explain why acid-fast staining is considered a differential staining procedure. Your answer should be specific for acid-fast staining?

back 38

It difference between them is the cell wall

front 39

In the acid- fasting staining procedure performed in this exercise, how were mycolic acids solubilize so that the cells would absorb the dye?

back 39

In one of the experiment for the Staphylococcus aureus the bacteria was positive and it appeared of the color blue

front 40

Are mycolic acid soluble in acid alcohol or carbolfuchin ? Explain your answer

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Mycolic acid soluble in carbolfuchin because of they cell wall that contain a hight amount of mycolic acid which make them hydrophobic

front 41

Explain why an acid- fasting procedure would be performed on a sputum sample?

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More accurate result of detecting the bacteria

front 42

Name a bacteria that would stain red upon performing the acid' fast staining?

back 42

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

front 43

Name a hacterua that would stain green upon performing the acid- fast staining?

back 43

Mycobacterium smegmatis

front 44

Name a bacteria that is acid fast

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Mycobacterium sgmegmatis

front 45

Explain the similarities and differences between acid-fast staining and gram staining?

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  • Both are important in microbiology
  • The difference is they target difference structure feature of bacteria cell wall.

front 46

Sudan IV is a dye used to detect and stain lipids. Explain the differences in appearance between an acid-fast and a non acid-fast staining with Sudan IV?

back 46

The differences is the lipid content in the cell wall of acid fast which allow them to penetrate better in Sudan IV

front 47

State one reason why capsules are hard to stain?

back 47

Because they are water soluble and therefore do not retain stains

front 48

Name basic dye used in capsules staining?

back 48

India ink

front 49

Explain why capsule staining is considered a a combination of both simple and negative staining procedure?

back 49

Because we utilize a basic dye stain for the simple of the cell and acid dye for background of the cell

front 50

Name one bacterium that capable of producing a capsule ?

back 50

Klebsiella pneumoniae

front 51

State one way that capsule increase virulence of an organism?

back 51

Because it allow the bacteria to adhere to the surface and inhibits phagocytosis by the white blood cell

front 52

State difference between capsules and endospores?

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  • Capsule polysaccharides
  • Endospores tough complex structure

front 53

Explain why a capsule inhibits phagocytosis

back 53

It make it harder for immune system to recognize it

front 54

Explain why a negative stain is prepared prior to heat fixing when performing a capsule?

back 54

To preserve the natural form

front 55

Capsule-producing bacteria tend to grow well and produce large capsule on skim milk agar. Why do you think this is so?

back 55

Because the nutrient promote bacetria growth and capsule production

front 56

State one reason why endospores are hard to stain?

back 56

Because of their chemical resistance

front 57

Name two genera of bacteria that can produce endospores?

back 57

Bacillus and Clostridium

front 58

Name the dye used to stain endospores?

back 58

Safranin

front 59

Why is stains endospores?

back 59

To lower the surface tension so that the dye can penetrate the endospore

front 60

If dipicolonic acid was removed from endospores what would happen?

back 60

It will not be able to resisted the heat

front 61

What would happens when too much steam is used during endospores staining?

back 61

It would result to inaccurate staining result

front 62

Why are endospores a concern for people that prepare home canned, non- acidic vegetable such as beans ?

back 62

Because it would result in contamination of the food which could caused illness

front 63

Endospores are sometimes describe as dormant cell. Explain why?

back 63

Because of of their protective structure and metabolic inactivaty

front 64

There are times when our drinking water become contaminated with bacteria when from raw sewage. When this happens, citizens are instructed to boil the water for a certain number of minutes to kill the bacteria do you think all the bacteria in the water killed?Explain your answer

back 64

Some of the bacteria are being killed, not all of them, because some have a layer of protective that made them able to live in harsh conditions

front 65

An autoclave is a piece of laboratory equipment used to sterilize laboratory and stream It surgical inc. Equipment and culture media, how it is possible for an orto clave to destroy tenderspoEquipment and culture media, how it is possible for an autoclave to destroy endospore?

back 65

By using high pressure steam, which able to penetrate that protective layer.

front 66

Explain the difference between optimal and maximum temperature?

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  • Optimal is the temperature an organism grow best in case environment temperature drop to minimum
  • Maximum is the highest temperature organisms grow best.

front 67

Explain how temperature affect microbial Growth?

back 67

By slowing down microbial molecules functions, denature, solidify.

front 68

Classify the following organism as Psychrophiles, Mesophiles, Thermophiles?

  • Normal flora of human small intestine
  • A my microbe isolated from a glacier
  • A microbe isolated from volcano

back 68

  • Mesophiles
  • Psychrophiles
  • Thermophiles

front 69

Explain what will happen to a microbe if it grown 10° above its maximum temperature?

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It could slow down the function of the microbe which could result in death .

front 70

Name a bacterium that is a Thermophiles?

back 70

Themus aquaticus

front 71

Give an example of a microbe that can grow in each if the following?

  • Acidic environment
  • Neutral environment
  • Alkaline environment

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  • Sulfolobus
  • Escherichia coli
  • Cyanobacteria

front 72

Explain how PH affects microbial Growth?

back 72

Altered membrane transport, altered enzyme functioning, Changing protein gradient

front 73

An investigator finds that a particular microbe optimally grow at a ph of 4.5. Describe what would happens if the microbe is place in a ph broth of 2.5?

back 73

The growth rate would likely decrease

front 74

Explain why humans inhibit the growth of certain microbes?

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Because the human skin ph is acidic, which create a favorite environment that benefits the microbe.

front 75

What class of microbes acidophiled, naturophile or Thermophiles will you most likely expect to grow in vagina of human females? Explain your answer

back 75

Acidophiles because those microbe thrive in those conditions.

front 76

Are there instruments that will be used to prevent alterations in ph that will inhibit microbial growth over time? Explain your answer

back 76

Yes for example ph meter which monitors and maintain stable ph and promote growth

front 77

A person regularly consume over the counter antacid ? Explain the effects this might have ob the normal flora of the digestive system

back 77

Altered the normal floral would likely to increase the stomach ph which can result over the growth of bacteria

front 78

Explain how solute concentration affect microbial Growth?

back 78

By affecting osmotic pressure and membrane lipid integrity

front 79

Explain the recent so can be used as a food preservative?

back 79

By reducing moisture and water activity

front 80

Explain the difference between a halophile and halotolerant organism?

back 80

  • Halophiles is those organism that can't live hight salt concentrations
  • Halotolerant is those organism that can't lived without it however grow better in it

front 81

Why do jams and jellies rarely become contaminated with bacteria or mold?

back 81

Because of the hight concentration of sugar which create a hypertonic environments for the bacteria to lived in it

front 82

A microbiologist inoculated, an extreme halophiles in nutrients both containing 1% NaCl and the tube is incubated and then examined. Predict what the microbiologist will see and provide an explanation for your answer?

back 82

Would likely to be observed limited or no growth microbe.

front 83

Explain the difference between an osmophile and halophiles?

back 83

  • Osmophile high concentrations of sugar
  • Halophiles is hight concentrations of salt

front 84

Name a bacteria genus that is halotolerant ?

back 84

Halothiobacillus neapolitanus

front 85

Name an extreme halophiles and a location on earth where extreme halophiles live ?

back 85

The ocean, lake

front 86

What adaptations od bacteria have in order to increase the water concentration inside their class when they are in an environment of hight solute concentration, such as existence in slat marsh?

back 86

They would likely exchange k+ to proton to keep osmosis balance

front 87

Is there any potential disadvantage to using high solute concentration as a sound food preservative?explain your answer

back 87

One would be health concern or alteration, calcium loss

front 88

What us the function of reassuring in thioglycollate broth?

back 88

To determine how various organisms tolerate oxygen

front 89

Described the concentration of oxygen throughout a tube of thioglycollate broth

back 89

The most will be at the top, some might in the middle, and no oxygen in the bottom

front 90

What does the anaerobes use the oxygen it requires for ?

back 90

For growth and their metabolic function

front 91

Why can a facultative anaerobes grow in the presence of oxygen but an anaerobes cannot?

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Because of the capability and metabolic adaptation of the facultative anaerobes whole for anaerobes they can't because of their lack of protective mechanisms against oxygen

front 92

Defined the term microaerophile?

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Those organism that need oxygen for growth and metabolic function while they are living and environment with lower oxygen

front 93

Name a microbe that is anearobes

back 93

Clostridium perfringens

front 94

Based on their oxygen requirement what type of organism would you expect to find in?

  • A swamps
  • The human gut

back 94

  • Microaerophile
  • Anaerobic

front 95

An instrument known as a Gas-pak is used to grow anaerobs. Explain how it work

back 95

It work generate hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas which remove oxygen from a seal container

front 96

For each of the type of organism listed, explain if it would grow in a Gas-peak?

  • Facultaive
  • Microaerophile

back 96

  • Yes
  • No

front 97

One of the treatment for gas gangrene is oxygen therapy. Explain why this treatment would be the effective to treat this disease?

back 97

By killing the growth of the bacteria which lead to death of the cell.