Microbiology Chapter 4

Which of the following is mismatched?

Which of the following is mismatched?

Which of the following species of bacteria is not closely related to the others?

If bacteria living in salty seawater were displaced to a freshwater environment, the cell structure that would prevent the cells from rupturing is the

The cell _____ can be composed of three layers: the cell membrane, the cell wall, and the outer membrane.

The function of bacterial endospores is

Syphilis is caused by a spirochete called

Lipopolysaccharide is an important cell wall component of

The bacterial chromosome

The term that refers to flagella at both poles is

The site/s for most ATP synthesis in prokaryotic cells is/are the

Cells form a _____ arrangement when cells in a chain snap back upon each other, forming a row of cells oriented side by side.

Chemotaxis refers to the ability to

Peptidoglycan is a unique macromolecule found in bacterial

Two major structures that allow bacteria to adhere to surfaces are ___ and ___.

Which of the following is not a phenotypic trait of bacteria?

Bacterial endospores are produced by

A prokaryotic cell wall that has primarily peptidoglycan with small amounts of teichoic acid and lipoteichoic acid is

Which of the following does not pertain to endotoxins?

Which of the following is mismatched?

Which of the following is not true of the outer membrane?

Gram-negative organisms

Magnetosomes are

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a prokaryote?

A bacterial genus that has waxy mycolic acid in the cell walls is

Bacterial cells could have any of the following appendages except

The transfer of genes during bacterial conjugation involves rigid, tubular appendages called

Which term is not used to describe bacterial cell shapes?

Spirochetes have a twisting and flexing locomotion due to appendages called

Which order below reflects the correct procedure for Gram staining?

_ is a macromolecule containing alternating N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid cross-linked by short peptide fragments.

During the Gram stain, gram-_____ cells decolorize when the alcohol is applied.

The short, numerous appendages used by some bacterial cells for adhering to surfaces are called

The prokaryotic flagellum has three parts in the order from cytoplasm to external environment. They are

Plasmids

The outcome of the Gram stain is based on differences in the cell's

The basal body of a flagellum is anchored into the

A bacterial cell exhibiting chemotaxis probably has

The term that refers to the presence of a tuft of flagella emerging from the same site is

Endospores are

All of the following structures contribute to the ability of pathogenic bacteria to cause disease except the

The _____ stain is used to stain and differentiate Mycobacterium and Nocardia from other bacteria.

A few antibiotics target cell membranes of cells, blocking the incorporation of chemicals into sterol molecules for the cell membrane. Which statement is true?

All bacterial cells have

An irregular cluster of spherical cells is termed:

Lysozyme is most effective against

The two functions of bacterial appendages are

The most immediate result of destruction of a cell's ribosomes would be

Halobacterium salinarium lives in and requires salt to grow. This is an example of an archaebacterium described as a/n

The difference in cell wall structure of Mycobacterium and Nocardia compared to the typical gram-positive bacterial cell wall structure is

A client has a serious respiratory infection. A random sample of sputum was taken from the patient coughing up blood. The lab technician said they had isolated a bacterium that did not have any peptidoglycan. You hypothesize that the identity of this microbe could possibly be

The term that refers to the presence of flagella all over the cell surface is

A chain of rod-shaped cells would be called a

Serological analysis for bacterial identification typically involves using

Movement of a cell toward OR away from a chemical stimulus is termed:

At present, the most accurate indicator of evolutionary relatedness among organisms is to determine the

__ Manual of Systematic Bacteriology is a manual of bacterial descriptions and classifications.

The chemical components of ribosomes are proteins and

The enzyme _____, that is found in tears and saliva, can hydrolyze the bonds in the glycan chains of certain bacterial cell walls.

Chemical analysis of a bacterial cell structure detects calcium dipicolinic acid. What is the identity of this structure?