Microbiology

Which of the following bacterial genera includes species that protect areas of the body such as the ...

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Mycoplasmas are pleomorphic because they

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Bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes are distinguished from the phylum Actinobacteria on the basis of

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Aerobic cyanobacteria carry out the reactions of nitrogen fixation in

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Which of the following types of microbes might be found in a boiling hot spring?

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The archaea known as halophiles

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Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology contains

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Contamination with ________ is a concern because they are highly resistant to killing.

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Which of the following bacterial arrangements is the result of snapping division?

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A newly discovered prokaryote produces a compound with promising antimicrobial effects. Devise a set ...

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Explain the concept of selective toxicity.

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Why can microbial resistance to antibiotics and other drugs be considered a primarily genetic phenomenon?

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Antiviral medications frequently block unique (proteins/enzymes/molecules) to prevent production of ...

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External infections can be treated by (intramuscular/surface/topical) administration, in which a ...

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Semisynthetic drugs developed to combat resistance are often called (analog/second ...

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The ratio of a medication's dose that can be tolerated to its effective dose is the therapeutic ...

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Competition between beneficial microbes and potential pathogens is called microbial ...

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A microbe resistant to a variety of different antimicrobials is said to have (cross/drug/multiple) resistance.

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Selective (action/toxicity/treatment) means that a given antimicrobial agent is more toxic to a ...

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Organs that are commonly affected by drug toxicity include the kidneys and the liver.

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If a subculture of an MIC test grows in an MBC test, the concentration of the drug was bactericidal.

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Some bacterial cells are resistant to a variety of antimicrobials because they actively pump the ...

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Because all cells engage in protein synthesis, there are few antimicrobial drugs that selectively ...

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Antisense nucleic acids interfere with protein synthesis.

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Disruption of the normal microbiota can result in infections caused by which of the following microbes?

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