logo

CuriousTab

CuriousTab

Discussion


Home Microbiology Growth and Nutrition of Bacteria Comments

  • Question
  • Organisms such as lactobacilli that have elaborate requirements for specific nutrients i.e. vitamins and other growth promoting substances, are generally called as


  • Options
  • A. fastidious hetrotrophs
  • B. chemo-lithotrophs
  • C. chemotrophs
  • D. photo-organotrophs

  • Correct Answer
  • fastidious hetrotrophs 


  • Growth and Nutrition of Bacteria problems


    Search Results


    • 1. The organism which obtain their energy from chemicals are designated as

    • Options
    • A. prototrophs
    • B. chemotrophs
    • C. organotrophs
    • D. autotrophs
    • Discuss
    • 2. A synergistic effect is observed when

    • Options
    • A. one organism removes an inhibitory substance for another
    • B. one organism produces a growth factor utilized by another
    • C. microbial alteration of pH, aw, Eh favours the growth of another
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 3. Pseudomonas pseudoflava can grow as

    • Options
    • A. chemo-lithotrophs
    • B. chemo-organotrophs
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. Starvation proteins are produced by a culture during which of the following segments of the growth curve?

    • Options
    • A. Lag phase
    • B. Exponential phase
    • C. Stationary phase
    • D. Death phase
    • Discuss
    • 5. The term facultative anaerobe refers to an organism that

    • Options
    • A. doesn't use oxygen but tolerates it
    • B. is killed by oxygen
    • C. uses oxygen when present or grows without oxygen when absent
    • D. requires less oxygen than is present in air
    • Discuss
    • 6. The growth is normally expressed as __________ in turbidimetric measurement

    • Options
    • A. cells per ml
    • B. cfu/ml
    • C. optical density
    • D. mg N2 /ml
    • Discuss
    • 7. The equation used to obtain bacterial population by binary fission is

    • Options
    • A. N = No2n
    • B. log N/No = (0.3010) n
    • C. log(N/No) = nlog 2
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. In the exponential phase, the cells and cell mass

    • Options
    • A. first increases then decreases
    • B. decreases
    • C. are constant
    • D. double at a constant rate
    • Discuss
    • 9. Bacteria and fungi multiply best

    • Options
    • A. below 16°C
    • B. between 16-38°C
    • C. above 38°C
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. A spore differs from an actively replicating bacterium in that the spore

    • Options
    • A. is produced during a process involving asymmetric division
    • B. is able to withstand more extreme conditions than the replicating cell
    • C. is metabolically inactive
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss


    Comments

    There are no comments.

Enter a new Comment