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Which microbial control agent would most effectively inhibit anaerobes and why?
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- What are the different types of Microbial Control?What sources of microbial contamination are in nutrient agar exposed in air,water,soil and plant leaves? What are the steps to removing or contaminating these sources?Which type of organism (obligate anaerobe, microaerophile, facultative anaerobe, aerotolerant anaerobe) would most likely be affected negatively by the use of old media? Which type of organism (obligate anaerobe, microaerophile, facultative anaerobe, aerotolerant anaerobe) would most likely be affected positively by the use of old media? Which type of organism (obligate anaerobe, microaerophile, facultative anaerobe, aerotolerant anaerobe) would be least affected by old media?
- What are the physical methods of microbial control?Why is Escherichia coli used as an indicator organism inmicrobial analyses of water?Why does secondary treatment of wastewater require O2? A. Secondary treatment relies on anaerobic microbes to oxidize organic material. B.Secondary treatment relies on anaerobic microbes to reduce organic material. C.Secondary treatment relies on aerobic microbes to oxidize organic material. D.Photosynthetic bacteria are involved in secondary treatment and they require O2. E. Flocs require oxygen to facilitate biofilm formation.
- Another method of microbial control is filtration. List down at least 5 kinds of filters which could be used for this method?What physical and chemical conditions are necessaryfor the rapid microbial degradation of oil in aquaticenvironments?Why do we study how to control microbial growth? Give concrete examples wherein our understanding of microbial growth is applied.
- Explain the mechanism of action of several of the physical and chemical agents employed to control microbial growth.Describe methods used to grow microbes anaerobically and under high CO2 conditionsA microbe that does not require oxygen for metabolism but will use it ifavailable is a/ana. microaerophile.b. facultative anaerobe.c. obligate anaerobe.d. aerotolerant anaerobe.e. obligate aerobe.