Suppose you have joined to a lab lately for your undergraduate research and your supervisor is an environmental biotechnologist and interest includes various aspects of microbial diversity. Your supervisor wants you to figure out the following questions: I. What do you want to know about a newly discovered microbe?  II. How do you screen that microbe for the presence of nucleic acid?  III. What would be the assessment for finding the relationship between the new and already existing one?

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Q: What do the adjectives obligate and facultative mean with regard to microbes?

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Q: What is the significance of microbial diversity? How do you assess diversity? Explain your answer.

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Q: Why canal/pond water supports growth and development of microbes?

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Q: What do you mean by “colony” of microorganisms?

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Q: Describe the two-step process that makes up nitrification. Could microbes performing nitrification…

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Q: a microbe that decomposes the organic remains of dead organisms. (decomposers is wrong. i don't…

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Q: Why are extended periods of exponential microbialgrowth in nature rare and often slower than…

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Q: Provide evidence in support of or refuting the following statement: Microbial life can exist in the…

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Q: Why do you think it is much more difficult to classify microbial species than plants or animals?

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Q: What does it mean to say microbes are ubiquitous?

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A: microorganisms can be treated with antimicrobial agents , and prevent their growth and kill them .

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Q: Which of the following statements describe a culture or molecular technique in the study of…

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Q: It is sometimes difficult to obtain pure cultures of microbes that grow naturally in mixed…

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Q: What is environmental microbiology? (Please define in your own words.)

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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.