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MLT – Microbiology Exam Practice Questions and Answers | 100% Pass What term describes the morphology of organisms that vary in size and shape? - Answer️️ -pleomorphic Capsules are the basis of which test? - Answer️️ -serotyping A mucoid colony on blood agar medium indicates that whi...

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Questions and Answers | 100% Pass


What term describes the morphology of organisms that vary in size and shape? -

Answer✔️✔️-pleomorphic


Capsules are the basis of which test? - Answer✔️✔️-serotyping

A mucoid colony on blood agar medium indicates that which characteristic may be

present? - Answer✔️✔️-organism has a capsule

What are dark staining granules called? - Answer✔️✔️-metachromatic

Which organisms are non motile? - Answer✔️✔️-Shigella and Klebsiella

In the bacterial growth cycle, growth ceases because nutrients are exhausted or toxic

metabolic products have accumulated in what phase? - Answer✔️✔️-stationary phase

What genera of bacteria form spores? - Answer✔️✔️-Bacillus, Clostridium

What term is used to describe bacteria that grow in the absence of atmospheric oxygen

and obtain oxygen from oxygen-containing compounds? - Answer✔️✔️-anaerobes

What is the temperature at which bacteria grow best known as? - Answer✔️✔️-optium

On blood sugar plates a small zone of alpha hemolysis surrounded by a zone of beta

hemolysis after refrigeration is known as what type of hemolysis? - Answer✔️✔️-alpha-

prime

What is the most effective method of sterilization? - Answer✔️✔️-autoclaving


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What is used for quality control for the dry heat oven? - Answer✔️✔️-Bacillus subtilis

Media that cannot be heated can be sterilized by what alternate method? - Answer✔️✔️-

filtration

What disinfectant is the most effective germicide against bacteria, spores tubercle

bacilli, fungi, and viruses? - Answer✔️✔️-chlorine bleach

What term describes a process or treatment that renders a medical device, instrument,

or environmental surface safe to handle? - Answer✔️✔️-decontamination

What color do Gram-positive bacteria stain? - Answer✔️✔️-purple/ dark blue

Acid-fast bacteria appear what color microscopically? - Answer✔️✔️-red

Acid-fast organisms in tissue are best stained by what method? - Answer✔️✔️-Kinyoun

What should be used to remove antimicrobials before culturing? - Answer✔️✔️-

antimicrobial removal device

Name some characteristics concerning sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS)- -

Answer✔️✔️-prevents blood from clotting, prevents phagocytosis, neutralizes the

bactericidal effect on human serum

What is the most abundant normal flora in throat culture? - Answer✔️✔️-alpha-hemolytic

streptococci

What is the most common pathogen in throat cultures? - Answer✔️✔️-Streptococcus

pyogenes

Why is it recommended to stab the blood agar plate when setting up throat cultures? -

Answer✔️✔️-some streptococci may not produce beta hemolysis under aerobic

conditions

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