Microbiology Game

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Specializes in ICU.

Thought this might help us Micro students out a bit.

I'll ask a question - someone responds with the answer and asks another question. Easy right? Ok - here's an easy one...

A thin, threadlike appendage on many procaryotic & eucaryotic cells that is responsible for their motality?

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flagellum.

next question....

__________ are bacteria who have not yet been successfully cultivated on an artificial medum, and can only be propagated in a living host which serves as a medium.

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Specializes in ICU.
flagellum.

next question....

__________ are bacteria who have not yet been successfully cultivated on an artificial medum, and can only be propagated in a living host which serves as a medium.

hmmmm.... is it mycobacterium??

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nope--think category, not specific microorganism....

these bacteria can only live off another larger organism!!

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parasite?

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close enough....specifically, obligate parasites, such as m. leprae, rickettsias, and the spirochete that causes syphilis, treponema pallidum.

ok, an easier one..

this important technique, which dates to 1884, subjects a smear to the following reagents (in order) cystal violet, iodine, alcohol, and safranin, resulting in two groups of bacteria?

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Gram Stain!

Woohoo! I like the easy ones. LOL

1st scientist to clearly link a specific microorganism to a specific disease?

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well, depending on who's version you're reading, it could be koch (and his postulates) finding anthrax, and/or jenner's observation about cow-pox vis-a-vis smallpox. (i'd take either answer, if supported...):smokin:

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well, depending on who's version you're reading, it could be koch (and his postulates) finding anthrax, and/or jenner's observation about cow-pox vis-a-vis smallpox. (i'd take either answer, if supported...):smokin:

you must be a teacher? :) :yeah: my book says koch.

mycoplasma's cell membrane is stabilized by ___ and is resistant to lysis.

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you must be a teacher?

naw--a clinical director, which does include a bunch of inservicing and testing..

mycoplasma's cell membrane is stabilized by ___ and is resistant to lysis.

sterols in the cell membrane....which in addtion to its polymorphic and parasitic attributes makes it a "sleath" pathogen.

e-coli, staph epidermis, and candida albicans are all examples of normal _____ _____.

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