06/24/19
What media is used in microbial study of water?
optionsa) Lactose fermentation brothb) fluid thioglycolate mediumc) Nutrient brothd) none of above
04/10/19
Can a fungus become resistant to a chemical such as Potassium Permanganate?
A friend used potassium permanganate solution to treat tinea on the hands/feet but after some initial success, the tinea seems to be making a comeback. Could the fungus develop resistance to...
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04/07/19
help with microbiology
3. Is Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gram-positive or Gram-negative? Research and describe the composition of yeast cell walls. How does the composition compare to the cell walls of Gram-positive or...
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03/28/19
If a human takes antibiotics are all bacteria in the body killed?
From my basic understanding, antibiotics kill living things, bacteria for example.Do the antibiotics consumed by a human-being distinguish between what they kill? Or do they just kill every...
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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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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?
03/17/19
What is the purpose of requiring two separate binding systems for the antibody response?
I've read that in most cases, B-cell activation requires helper T-cells. This requires antigen binding by both antibodies and T-cell receptors, using two different antigen-binding proteins,...
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03/14/19
Is there an equivalent to "Fields Virology" for Bacteria?
I've gotten a staggering amount of use out of my copy of Fields Virology as a general reference for "getting me up to speed" on whatever pathogen I'm currently looking at. I don't know of a similar...
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03/05/19
Chemical Oxidization Question
Given the following equation, identify the chemical being oxidized, the chemical being reduced, the oxidizing agent, and the reducing agent.Na(s) + Ag^+(aq) --> Na^+(aq) + Ag(s)I need help, so I...
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What is the primary component of the cell membrane?
Which macromolecule is the primary component of cell membranes?a. Lipidsb. Nucleic acidsc. Carbohydrates d. Proteins I know it’s either a or d but I’ve read many different cites, all saying...
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02/21/19
Which statement BEST explains the results of this investigation?
Students were investigating the effect of antibiotics on bacteria. The students exposed a colony of bacteria to an antibiotic and 10% of the bacteria survived. Over time, the surviving bacteria...
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11/15/18
If you transfer a large inoculum to the Simmons citrate agar slant, this may result in a false positive because:
a.Bacteria cannot utilize citrate may still grow on the slantb.The citrate slant might be too liquidc.Bacteria utilize citrate may still grow on the slantd.None of the above
09/07/18
What feature will you use to identify hyaline cartilage?
a. Densely packed parallel collagen fibersb. Predominantly freely branching elastic fibersc. Scattered cells and fibers in gel-like ground substanced. Glassy-appearing matrix; cells hosted in lacunae
04/03/18
Phylogenetic Tree
How would the following bacteria be placed in a phylogenetic tree?
Desulfurococcus, Geogemma, Borrelia, Acidimicrobium, Deinococcus
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