Microbiology: An Introduction Plus Mastering Microbiology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (13th Edition) (What's New in Microbiology)
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Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case, Derek Weber, Warner Bair
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Chapter 4, Problem 10R
NAME IT What group of microbes is characterized by cells that form filaments, reproduce by spores, and have peptidoglycan in their cell walls?
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Which of the following is NOT true about endospores?
O 1) Spores are resistant to heat, radiation, cold, and dessication.
O 2) One endospore germinates into one vegetative cell.
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3) They are a method of reproduction for bacterial cells when growth conditions
are inhospitable.
O 4) Endospores are clinically significant in causing disease.
O 5) The endospore has a thick spore coat that protects it.
Mycoplasmas are bacteria that lack cell walls. On the basis of this structural feature, which statement concerning mycoplasmas should be true?
They are gram-negative.
They are subject to lysis in hypotonic conditions.
They lack a cell membrane as well.
They should contain less cellulose than do bacteria that possess cell walls.
They possess typical prokaryotic flagella.
Bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma are distinguished from other bacterial cells by
1) cell walls composed solely of amino acids.
O 2) the absence of a cytoplasmic membrane.
O 3) the absence of a cell wall.
O 4) Have large capsules.
5) the presence of mycolic acid in their cell walls.
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Microbiology: An Introduction Plus Mastering Microbiology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (13th Edition) (What's New in Microbiology)
Ch. 4 - DRAW IT Diagram each of the following flagellar...Ch. 4 - Endospore formation is called (a) _____. It is...Ch. 4 - DRAW IT Draw the bacterial shapes listed in (a),...Ch. 4 - Match the structures in column A to their...Ch. 4 - Why is an endospore called a resting structure? Of...Ch. 4 - Compare and contrast the following a. simple...Ch. 4 - Prob. 7RCh. 4 - Starch is readily metabolized by many cells, but a...Ch. 4 - Match the characteristics of eukaryotic cells in...Ch. 4 - NAME IT What group of microbes is characterized by...
Ch. 4 - Which of the following is not a distinguishing...Ch. 4 - Which statement best describes what happens when a...Ch. 4 - Which statement best describes what happens when a...Ch. 4 - Which statement best describes what happens when a...Ch. 4 - Which of the following statements best describes...Ch. 4 - Which of the following is false about fimbriae? a....Ch. 4 - Which of the following pairs is mismatched? a....Ch. 4 - Which of the following pairs is mismatched? a....Ch. 4 - You have isolated a motile, gram-positive cell...Ch. 4 - The antibiotic amphothericin B disrupts plasma...Ch. 4 - How can prokaryotic cells be smaller than...Ch. 4 - The smallest eukaryotic cell is the motile alga...Ch. 4 - Two types of prokaryotic cells have been...Ch. 4 - In 1985, a 0.5-mm cell was discovered in...Ch. 4 - When E. coli cells are exposed to a hypertonic...Ch. 4 - Clostridium botulinum is a strict anaerobe; that...Ch. 4 - A South San Francisco child enjoyed bath time at...Ch. 4 - Live cultures of Bacillus thuringiensis (Dipel)...
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