Microbiology Spring 2007

*Blessed2BaNRS* · Mar 22, 2007

Foxy,

I'm glad to hear that you have a little more time to study and get those questions down really good. How nice that you get that extra week. Instructors seem to come through at the exact moment that you need to to!!

You know, a study group is a great thing, and can really help, but one word of caution: make sure that you have your questions and answers down very well, because a study group can go either way; it can make or break you for a test. I thought that I had it down on my 4th test, when we really started meeting to study, but I spent more time trying to help a couple of people learn theirs and it messed me up in my learning, because when asking questions to each other, I would ultimately remember their answers instead of mine, which were sometimes incorrect. Some of the people tend to wait to learn their exams till when they can get together with others that know it. So make sure that you have yours down!!!

Good luck~

GeneralJinjur · Mar 22, 2007

Hey everyone, I am struggling to wrap my head around the steps of cellular respiration and came across a nice tutorial. The drawings are clunky, but the information is sound and a little less detailed, which often helps me get the point before moving on to the details.

http://www.biology.lsu.edu/introbio/tutorial/Cellular%20respiration/Glyco,CellResp,Fermen.html

I just got my lab practical grade back and am very happy with it. Our 3rd exam has been pushed off til Tuesday, so I am working hard to cover everything thoroughly. It's on immunology, cellular metabolism and something else that doesn't spring to mind immediately. The immunology is familiar at least because of A&P 2, but we'll be covering it in lecture tonight. We got so far behind that we are supposed to have 3 lectures covering immune response, but our instructor is condensing it into one night. I'm glad I am used to online courses and basically teaching myself. I feel bad for the class members who are currently taking A&P 2, they will not get to this system for another few weeks.

Well, back to work!

Denise

GeneralJinjur · Mar 24, 2007

Here's another helpful cellular respiration link. Sure, it's for high schoolers, but it explains it well.

http://gbn.glenbrook.k12.il.us/academics/science/staff/Biology/Metabolism/CRespOut.html

RaElrA · Mar 26, 2007

Phew! I'm doing A&P II and Micro now. Bye, bye 4.0. I'm struggling to keep B's. Good luck!

RaElrA · Mar 26, 2007

Hahahahaha! I keep a squirt bottle of bleach in the shower now, open doors with my sleeve, and never touch my face. I have gone from mildly to majorly OCD, lol.

spoiled_lil_sister · Apr 2, 2007

Help! My instructor has changed the material she tests us over in the middle of the semester. She has given us a list of multiple choice questions that we have to answer, then she narrows the amount of questions down, and that is the test. Sounds easy enough, right? There are only 2 problems with this: The source she is using to get our questions doesn't correlate with the information in the book, and there is no key to check our answers to. I've done as much as I can to answer these questions - I've spent hours researching on the internet, but I'm sure you know how that goes! I've even found people asking the exact same questions on Yahoo! questions & again, nobody seems to know the answers. They are "just guessing". Our textbook is "Foundations in Microbiology, 5th edition" by Kathleen Park Talaro. I also have the study guide but these questions are not in it either.

I'm hoping that somebody will recognize these questions & can point me in the right direction for a key to check my work against. Here are the first 3 questions of this phantom chapter 19 multiple choice test (which, I have the answers to but maybe somebody will recognize them!):

1) Characteristics of Bacillus anthracis include all of the following except:

A) capsule and exotoxins are virulence factors

B) anaerobic

C) reservoir includes infected grazing animals and contaminated soil

D) Gram positive bacillus

E) sporeformer

(My answer is "B", found on page 578.)

2) Anthrax is:

A) a zoonosis

B) transmitted by contact, inhalation, and ingestion

C) a disease that, in humans, can cause a rapidly fatal toxemia and septicemia

D) only seen sporadically in the United States

E) all of the above choices are correct

(Answer is "E", found on page 578.)

3) Which form of anthrax involves a black eschar on the skin?

A) pulmonary

B) gastrointestinal

C) cutaneous

D) all of the choices are correct

E) none of the choices are correct

(My answer is "C" from page 578.)

Thanks for your time reading this & again, I would appreciate any resources you may have to offer on this.

Cinqly, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2007

I have the 6th edition and the answers to all the quizes at the end of each chapter are at the end of the book. The 5th edition may not have this, I guess... The 6th edition also has only 17 chapters, so that information may not be covered in the new edition. I looked at the quizes for other chapters to see if those questions were asked, but it didn't appear that they were, and I couldn't seem to easily find the answers to your questions! Sorry!! Have you tried accessing the publishers website to see if the anwers are available there??

Good luck and I'm sorry to hear that your teacher is being such a pain!!!

Ebony06 · Apr 3, 2007

Microbiology is very easy. I took microbiology last semester and received an "A." If anyone needs any help, send me a private reply. I have all of my original notes from the class if anyone wants them. Just remember all of the mediums, and the various stains of the bacteria.

Ebony06 · Apr 3, 2007

Just remember this: the property of gram-positive bacteria bacillus (rods) is that they form endospores. All gram-positive bacillus (rods) are endospore-formers. Here is the website that helped me through microbiology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus

http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/MicrobeWiki

catzy5 · Apr 11, 2007

I am excited it was my first day back after spring break and we are going to start our unknowns now, we did a practice today I got frustrated at first mine seemed to be a lot less straightforward then others, but I did some research and I think I found out my practice unknown. I can't wait for the real thing now its going to be fun.

JaxiaKiley · Apr 11, 2007

I just signed up for my summer micro class. I'm so nervous to try to cram this class into a short summer session!

JDLAStew · Apr 11, 2007

We started our unknowns tonight. The first agar plate I inoculated, I stabbed!!! I was freaking out! After doing the Gram stain, I'm almost 100% positive I have E. coli. I had some large, very pink rods.