How are biofilms significant to the human body and the environment?

Q: How are bacteria classified according to their need for oxygen?

A: Bacteria have diverse metabolism that permits their survival in various environmental conditions.…

Q: Biofilms often consist of multiple species of bacteria.True or false?

A: Bacteria are the prokaryotic organisms. They are unicellular type.

Q: How do microorganisms adapt to hypotonic and hypertonic environments?

A: Introduction: A hypotonic solution is one which has less solute concentration compared to that…

Q: Why have scientists developed numerous methods to classify microorganisms?

A: Microorganisms are very diverse. They include bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa. The identification…

Q: Why are many bacteria considered useful?

A: Bacteria are a sort of organic cell. They establish an enormous area of prokaryotic microorganisms.…

Q: How do bacteria differ in terms of optimal temperature for growth?

A: The optimum temperature of the bacteria is defined as the suitable temperature where the maximum…

Q: How to distinguish bacteria if a bacterial colony formation happens and a certain bacteria appearing…

A: Bacteria flourish on culture media in the form of colonies. A colony is specified as a visible mass…

Q: How do cyanobacteria survive freezing and desiccation?

A: Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae are gram-positive, photosynthetic prokaryotes. They are one of the…

Q: How does the UV radiation control the microbial growth affect of cells?

A: It is required to describe the affect of ultraviolet radiation controlling the microbial growth of…

Q: What characteristics of microorganisms make them important research tools?

A: Introduction  Microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast, viruses etc. are not just pathogenic and…

Q: Why are archaea commonly referred to as extremophiles?

A: Microbe or microorganisms are organisms that are microscopic in nature, thereby making it too small…

Q: What is a biofilm? What is the advantage for microbes to form a biofilm

A: A community of microorganisms which are attached to a surface irreversibly is called a biofilm. They…

Q: How can Dry/Moist heat, Dessication, and the Cold control the microbial growth affect of cells?

A: Microorganisms are omnipresent. Therefore, they may cause contamination, infection, and…

Q: What bacteria is gram negative?

A: Bacteria are member of a large group of unicellular microorganism. It has cell walls but lack…

Q: What are beneficial activities of bacteria?

A: Bacteria are economically significant because human use of these microorganisms for many purposes.…

Q: What are types of cell culture media?

A: A cell culture medium is solid or liquid in nature. It is a mixture of all necessary nutrients…

Q: How do bacteria obtain nutrients from the food they live in?

A: Bacteria need enough suitable nutrients for its growth and reproduction. Enough nutrients such as…

Q: What are the effects of temperature, and pH on microbial growth?

A: Living organisms grow and reproduce. When microbes are provided with sufficient nutrients and…

Q: Discuss biofilms with regard to their formation, unique properties, and significance to the…

A: Biofilms as the name suggests are films of living organisms ( microbes ). They are highly…

Q: In what ways do the macroscopic features of bacterial colonies differ from those of molds?

A: Molds are a type of fungus. These are small, white, green, orange, purple, or black. They live…

Q: Explain how biofilms form and why they are important

A: A biofilm consist of living microorganisms such as bacteria that live in colony. Biofilm form when…

Q: How does bacterial growth occur?

A: Bacteria are prokaryotic unicellular organisms. They have a relatively simple cell structure…

Q: Are there any bacteria made of more than one cell?

A: The cells are the structural and functional units of all living organisms. On the basis of the…

Q: What is narrow spectrum of microbial activity?

A: Microbial activity is the antimicrobial activity in which microbes are killed by a certain chemical.…

Q: How is motility associated with pathogenicity

A: Motility is a characteristic of bacteria which can move freely using their own cell processes…

Q: How does the biofilm growth mode differ from that ofplanktonic cells? Which growth mode better…

A: Biofilm basically refers to the matrix like a thing that helps the cells to stick to one another. It…

Q: In what type of environments can a microorganism be found?

A: Answer: Introduction: Microorganisms are the organisms that are too small to be seen by naked eyes.…

Q: Which environment has many microorganisms and which has few?

A: Microorganisms live in every kind of habitat and their presence invariably affects the environment…

Q: Which microbe is grown for use as protein – rich food?

A: Proteins are polymers made up of polymers of amino acids, which are structural units. They act as…

Q: Describe why bacterial biofilms can be a threat to human health.

A: A biofilm can be defined as a surface attached community of micro-organisms embedded and growing in…

Q: Do gram positive have outer membrane?

A: The bacterial cells are differentiated into two different cell types based on their staining…

Q: What are the advantages of biofilms as a growthmode over a planktonic lifestyle?

A: Planktons include diverse collection of organisms, which lives in water bodies and form the primary…

Q: How do gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria differ? Why is this difference important to humans?

A: Bacteria are microscopic, simple, prokaryotic organisms. The bacterial cell is bounded by a complex…

Q: What medical challenges do biofilms present?

A: Biofilms are microbial colonies that are linked to one another and enclosed in an exo-polysaccharide…

Q: What is economic importance of bacteria?

A: Bacteria are unicellular and prokaryotic organisms that live in wide variety of environments. It…

Q: How is bacteria different/distinct from all other microbes and organisms for that matter

A: Microbes mean it include microscopic organisms like bacteria,protozoa,archaea,fungi etc. Because…

Q: How is baking put in an application in microbiology and its involved microorganisms

A: Introduction:-  Microbes have been used in the bakery industry from a very long time. Yeast have the…

Q: What is a biofilm, and how did it form on the heart valve?

A: Biofilms are a collective of one or more types of microorganisms that can grow on many different…

Q: What is a microbial colony and how is one formed?

A: Bacteria are a prokaryotic microbe. Most of the bacteria’s are pathogenic and parasitic living in…

Q: What property of biofilm microbial communitiesmakes them clinically and industrially relevant? Why…

A: Biofilm is a dynamic structure adopted by microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi, and is a…

Q: How do the chemicals such as aldehydes, gaseous sterilizers, peroxygens, and organic acids affect…

A: Physical and chemical methods are used to control the microbes. Chemical methods are where chemicals…

Q: What are the four basic stages of biofilm formation?

A: The biofilm is a thin mucous layer that is formed by a bacterial colony and a few other…

Q: What conditions do bacteria need to thrive and reproduce?

A: Bacteria can generally survive in extreme environment though they need certain conditions to thrive…

Q: How will you determine whether the antibiotics kill the organism or only inhibit its growth

A: Microbiology is the branch of biology that deals with study of organisms that are too small to be…

Q: How do the chemicals such as bisphenols, halogens, alcohols, and heavy metals affect microbial…

A: Physical and chemical methods are used to control the microbes. Chemical methods are where chemicals…

Terrestrial Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a collection of interconnected communities. It includes both living and non-living elements of specific strata. The terrestrial ecosystem is solely related to the ecosystem present on the land and covers 25 to 30% of the total earth’s surface area.