What are the three domains of all living things? Bacteria, Archaea, and Protista Monera, Protista, and Fungi Archeae, Eubacteria, and Eukarya Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia

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What is the system of grouping biological organisms based on shared characteristics and naming these groups?

Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

What are the three domains of all living things?

What is the important reference tool for identifying bacterial unknowns?

What is the growth temperature range for psychrophiles?

What is the growth temperature range for mesophiles?

What is the growth temperature range for thermophiles?

What is the growth temperature range for hyperthermophiles?

Which methods are examples of dry heat sterilization?

Which methods are examples of moist heat sterilization?

What is the most effective moist heat method for sterilization?

What is the shortest length of time required to kill all bacteria in a liquid culture at a given temperature?

What is the lowest temperature required to kill all bacteria in a liquid culture in 10 minutes?

What is the time, in minutes, in which 90% of a population of bacteria at a given temperature will be killed?

What is the principal effect of ionizing radiation on cells?

What are some non-ionizing wavelengths essential for?

Which types of radiation are considered ionizing?

Which type of radiation is considered non-ionizing?

What variables can affect the effectiveness of radiation?

What are the absorption spectrums for UV radiation?

At what wavelength do animal cells synthesize vitamin D?

What are thymine dimers and how are they repaired?

What are agents that result in bacterial death called?

What are agents that cause temporary inhibition of bacterial growth called?

What are agents used for controlling the growth of microbes called?

What are chemical agents used on inanimate objects to lower the level of microbes on their surfaces called?

What are chemicals used on living tissue to decrease the number of microbes called?

What is the standard method for measuring the effectiveness of a chemical agent?

What variables are considered when choosing antimicrobial agents?

What is the standard method for measuring the effectiveness of a chemical agent using the American Official Analytical Chemist's use-dilution test?

What is the purpose of the zero quadrant in microbial testing?

Who discovered Penicillium and who discovered Streptomycin?

What are antimicrobial chemicals absorbed or used internally called?

What are the methods of testing antimicrobial drugs?

What media is used in the Kirby-Bauer test?

What does MIC stand for in antimicrobial testing?

When is human skin considered sterile or non-sterile?

What is the difference between normal and transient microbiota?

Which scientist proved the importance of hand washing to prevent corporal sepsis?

How did hand washing affect the cases of puerperal sepsis?

How long should a surgeon scrub to reduce transient microbiota?

Which areas of the skin have more or less flora?

What is the coagulase test used for?

What media is used to differentiate between pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria?

What are common genera associated with throat microbes?

What is microbial antagonism?

What is beta hemolysis?

What is alpha hemolysis?

What is gamma hemolysis?

What media is used for the isolation of throat cultures?

What test is used to determine fecal contamination in water?

What is Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB) agar used for?

How do you calculate the number of bacteria in the original water sample?

What is determined in a standard plate count?

How can food be contaminated during food processing?

Why are plates with 25-250 colonies considered ideal for counting?

What is bioremediation?

What is beta oxidation?

What is the exoenzyme that breaks down lipids or fats?

What was the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill?

When and where did the BP oil spill occur?

How were both the Exxon Valdez and BP oil spills cleaned up?

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