694 Answered Questions for the topic microbiology
Microbiology
03/27/19
Are there any mechanisms that stop a bacteriophage invasion?
Microbiology
03/27/19
How do protozoa and protists differ?
Microbiology Human Biology
03/27/19
Do probiotics survive digestion?
Pretty much this. I've been wondering if any of the yogourt and other "health" foods containing living probiotic cultures survive digestion to populate our intestines? If so, is there peer-reviewed...
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Microbiology
03/26/19
Does our body create its own bacteria?
Microbiology Vaccination
03/26/19
What is the effect of non-vaccinated people on vaccinated people?
Many times have I heard that anti-vaccine people are dangerous even to the vaccinated population. Is that true? If so, how can it be? People say that germs will attack them, and soon they would...
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Microbiology
03/26/19
What is a TSA plate in microbiology?
Microbiology
03/26/19
Are viruses more dangerous than bacteria?
03/26/19
What is the distinction between F' plasmid and R plasmid?
Is there a difference between an F' plasmid that has taken up a chromosomal gene that conveys antibiotic resistance, and an R plasmid? Is a bacterium containing an R plasmid and yet lacking an F+...
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Microbiology Science
03/21/19
Open ended response assessment from cell division and complex organisms
why Is cellular differentiation important to complex organisms
Microbiology
03/19/19
What do micorbiologist do?
Microbiology Virology
03/19/19
For how long would a flu-contaminated parcel be an effective disease vector?
A parcel has been delivered and **contaminated** by a person who has the flu.
For how long would the parcel be an effective disease vector?
03/19/19
Why has malaria only now started to develop resistance against artemisinin?
Why has malaria only now started to develop resistance against artemisinin, considering the compound has been in use for about two millennia in its herbal form in China?
Microbiology
03/19/19
What is a streak stab technique and how is it used?
03/19/19
Why is contractile vacuole absent in parasitic protozoans but present in free living protozoans?
I know that contractile vacuole helps in osmoregulation of protozoans and some nitrogenous wastes are also excreted through it. Since contractile vacuole plays an important role in protozoans, why...
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Microbiology
03/19/19
What is parasitology?
Microbiology
03/19/19
What are the differences between bacteria, algae and fungi?
Microbiology
03/19/19
How do antibiotics leave your system?
03/18/19
How does Cro protein expressed by lambda phage kill its host?
I read that the DNA segment of lambda phage integrated in host DNA could switch between lysogenic state where cI represses the expression of *Cro* and lytic state where *Cro* expression takes over...
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03/18/19
How do single-celled predators chase other cells?
From my understanding, single celled organisms have been seen avoiding, and chasing, potential food or other organisms.How do they accomplish this? They do not have eyes or ears or a nervous...
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03/18/19
How are antibiotic resistant bacterial infections treated?
For example, how are infections of antibiotic resistant strains of MRSA, Streptococcus, or Gonorrhea treated?
Microbiology
03/18/19
Why is saline used in microbiology?
Microbiology Epidemiology
03/18/19
Since most, if not all, cells in the body replicate and reproduce and none of them merge,
why do our cells let virions in?
Microbiology
03/18/19
Why are colonies important in microbiology?
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