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  • Which of the following has more tolerance for acidic pH (lower pH)?


  • Options
  • A. Yeast and moulds
  • B. Bacteria
  • C. E. coli
  • D. None of these

  • Correct Answer
  • Yeast and moulds 


  • Growth and Nutrition of Bacteria problems


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    • 1. A culture broth tube was very turbid at the bottom of the tube but clear at the top of the tube indicating that the

    • Options
    • A. broth is sterile
    • B. organism can tolerate oxygen
    • C. organism cannot produce superoxide dismutase and/or catalase
    • D. organism should be grown in an anaerobic chamber
    • Discuss
    • 2. A culture broth tube was very turbid at the surface but clear throughout the rest of the tube indicating that the

    • Options
    • A. organism are aerobes
    • B. organism should be grown in an anaerobic chamber
    • C. organism cannot produce superoxide dismutase and/or catalase
    • D. organism cannot tolerate oxygen
    • Discuss
    • 3. The ability of Vibrio fischeri to produce bioluminescence chemicals only when a certain population density has been reached is an example of

    • Options
    • A. Liebig's law of the minimum
    • B. Shelford's law of tolerance
    • C. quorum sensing
    • D. Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty
    • Discuss
    • 4. Which of the following is the necessary step for cultivating the microorganisms?

    • Options
    • A. Preparing a culture medium for the growth of microorganisms
    • B. Sterilizing in order to eliminate all living microorganisms in vessel
    • C. Inoculating the microorganisms in the prepared medium
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following is not an indirect method for the measurement of cell mass?

    • Options
    • A. Nutrient composition
    • B. Cell dry weight
    • C. Viscosity
    • D. Heat evolution
    • Discuss
    • 6. The term obligate anaerobe refers to an organism that

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    • A. doesn't use oxygen but tolerates it
    • B. is killed by oxygen
    • C. uses oxygen when present or grows without oxygen when oxygen is absent
    • D. prefers to grow without oxygen
    • Discuss
    • 7. Implicit factors

    • Options
    • A. depend on developing microflora
    • B. can be synergistic
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. The reproduction by budding occur in

    • Options
    • A. Rhodopseudomonas acidophila
    • B. Hyphomicrobium vulgare
    • C. Bacillus subtilis
    • D. Both (a) and (b)
    • Discuss
    • 9. Microaerophilic bacteria are those which require

    • Options
    • A. 21 % oxygen for growth
    • B. low levels of oxygen for growth (lesser than O2 present in atmosphere)
    • C. oxygen for activation of enzymes
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss
    • 10. An organism is completely dependent on atmospheric O2 for growth. This organism is

    • Options
    • A. osmotolerant
    • B. acidophile
    • C. facultative anaerobe
    • D. obligate aerobe
    • Discuss


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