MICROBIOLOGY W/ACCESS
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Chapter 3, Problem 1VC
Visual Connections Bloom’s Level 5: Evaluate
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1. Process Figure 3.10. If you were using the streak plate method to plate a very dilute broth culture (with many fewer bacteria than the broth used here) would you expect to see single, isolated colonies in area 4 or area 3? Explain your answer.
Note: This method only works if the spreading tool (using an inoculating loop) is resterilized after each of steps 1-4.
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Step #1 Culture and perform a Gram-stain on the
Super Bug
You culture the Super Bug by swabbing the patient's wound,
applying the sample to the surface of an agar plate (petri dish),
and incubating the plate for one day. Next you perform a Gram
stain on a pure culture of the Super Bug cells.
1. Considering the bacteria were originally isolated from an
exposed wound on a human patient, under what conditions
(temperature, atmosphere) did you most likely incubate your
plate of Super Bug cells to achieve maximal growth?
Gram stain observations: Short rod-shaped cells found in
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Chapter 3 Solutions
MICROBIOLOGY W/ACCESS
Ch. 3.1 - Prob. 2CFCh. 3.1 - Explain what the Five Is mean and what each step...Ch. 3.1 - Discuss three physical states of media and when...Ch. 3.1 - Compare and contrast selective and differential...Ch. 3.1 - Provide brief definitions for defined and complex...Ch. 3.2 - Prob. 5AYPCh. 3.2 - Prob. 6AYPCh. 3.2 - Prob. 7AYPCh. 3.2 - Prob. 8AYPCh. 3.2 - Compare and contrast the three main categories of...
Ch. 3 - Prob. 1CFCh. 3 - Prob. 1MCQCh. 3 - A mixed culture is a. the same as a contaminated...Ch. 3 - Resolution is ____ with a longer wavelength of...Ch. 3 - A real image is produced by the a. ocular. b....Ch. 3 - Prob. 5MCQCh. 3 - The specimen for an electron microscope is always...Ch. 3 - Prob. 7MCQCh. 3 - Bacteria tend to stain more readily with cationic...Ch. 3 - Multiple Matching. For each type of medium, select...Ch. 3 - A fastidious organism must be grown on what type...Ch. 3 - Agar has the disadvantage of being easily...Ch. 3 - A subculture is a culture made from an isolated...Ch. 3 - Prob. 13TFCh. 3 - Prob. 14TFCh. 3 - The best stain to use to visualize a microorganism...Ch. 3 - Prob. 1CTQCh. 3 - Prob. 2CTQCh. 3 - Prob. 3CTQCh. 3 - What is the functional type of mannitol salt agar...Ch. 3 - Create a short paragraph to differentiate among...Ch. 3 - Prob. 6CTQCh. 3 - Prob. 7CTQCh. 3 - a.Create a paragraph to differentiate among the...Ch. 3 - Prob. 9CTQCh. 3 - You are a scientist studying a marsh area...Ch. 3 - Prob. 1CCCh. 3 - Prob. 2CCCh. 3 - Prob. 3CCCh. 3 - Prob. 4CCCh. 3 - Prob. 5CCCh. 3 - Visual Connections Blooms Level 5: Evaluate These...Ch. 3 - Prob. 1CM
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