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StraighterLine BIO250 - Microbiology Final Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is a Transforming Infection? - ANSWER-Virus that alters cell DNA, leading to cancer What is a lysogenic infection? - ANSWER-Phage DNA is incorporated into host genome and is passed on to subsequen...

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StraighterLine BIO250 - Microbiology
Final Exam Study Guide Questions
and Answers 100% Pass

What is a Transforming Infection? - ANSWER✔✔-Virus that alters cell DNA, leading to

cancer


What is a lysogenic infection? - ANSWER✔✔-Phage DNA is incorporated into host

genome and is passed on to subsequent generations


What is a Lytic Bacteriophage Infection? - ANSWER✔✔-Host cell gets so packed with

viruses that is lyses (splits) open and releases mature virions


What are the three principle purposes of cultivating viruses? - ANSWER✔✔-1.) Isolate

and ID viruses in clinical specimens


2.) Prepare viruses for vaccines


3.) Research viral strucutre, multiplication cycles, genetics, and effects on hosts


What are three ways in which viruses are cultivated? - ANSWER✔✔-1.) Using live

animal inoculation


2.) Using bird embryos


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,3.) Using cell (tissue) culture techniques


What are three noncellular infections agents besides viruses? - ANSWER✔✔-Prions,

viroids, and satellite viruses.


List the essential nutrients of a bacterial cell: - ANSWER✔✔-CHONPS


C - arbon


H - ydrogen


N - itrogen


P - hosphate


S - ulphur


What are four terms that describe an organisms source of Carbon and Energy? -

ANSWER✔✔-Photoautotrophos, chemoautotrophs, chemoheterotrophs,

lithoautotrophs


Define Saprobe: - ANSWER✔✔-A microbe that decomposes organic remains from dead

organisms


Define Parasite - ANSWER✔✔-An organism that lives in or within a host from which it

obtains nutrients and enjoys protection. Produces some degree of harm to host


Define Diffusion: - ANSWER✔✔-movement from high to low




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, Define Osmosis: - ANSWER✔✔-Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable

membrane


hypotonic cell: - ANSWER✔✔-cells that are less concentrated than their environment;

water rushes in, may burst cell


hypertonic cell: - ANSWER✔✔-cells that are more concentrated than their environment;

water rushes out of the cell causing it to shrivel


isotonic cell: - ANSWER✔✔-extracellular environment has the same concentration of

solutes as the cell cytoplasm


types of passive transport - ANSWER✔✔-Facilitated diffusion, molecule-specific,

simple diffusion


facilitated diffusion - ANSWER✔✔-passive transport: Movement of specific molecules

across cell membranes through protein channels by binding to receptors


molecule specific


transport - ANSWER✔✔-Passive transport goes both directions. Rate is limited by

number of binding sites on transport proteins


simple diffusion - ANSWER✔✔-Fundamental property of atoms and molecults that

exist in a state of random motion


Name three types of active transport: - ANSWER✔✔-Carrier mediated, group

translocation, bulk transport
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