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Title: Microbial biochemistry questions
Description: These notes would be ideal for an undergraduate student in biological sciences, specifically but not limited to microbiology. The questions are divided into different lectures. This would be a great resource for a student to test what they learnt before an exam since the questions vary in difficulty and are laid out in an easy to follow layout.

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Microbial physiology questions sheet
Classification of organisms
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Name two prokaryotic microbes and three eukayotic microbes
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Gram positive bacteria are _____ colour and gram negative are ____ colour
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What are firmicutes?
Archea are more related to ______ than ______
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Name the three types of thermophiles
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Do protozoa have introns?
State three similarities between Protozoa and Algae
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State three things that anabolic reactions need
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Why do anabolic reactions need energy?
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Disect the following terms; photolithotrophy,
photoorganotryphy,chemorganotrphy,chemolithotrophy, heterotrophs, autotrophs
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______________ lives close to mine drains and converts__ to __
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They thrive in _____ conditions
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State four requirements of replication
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Where is DNA replicated?
State three ways of counting bacteria and state the pros and cons of each
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Average doubling time =___________
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Microbial physiology questions sheet
DNA in bacteria
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Cyanobacteria has about ______ copies of its chromosome in each cell
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How many replication points do bacterial DNA have?
Bacterial genome takes minimum 30 minutes to replicate
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How many different ways can DNA be read?
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State 5 things learnt from studying bacterial genomes
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Why do protons move out of the cytoplasm?
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_______________ is found in warm sulphide rich springs, During night, _____ builds up and
in the morning grows like green sulphur bacteria using ____, during day, sulphide builds up
grows like normal _____, _____for water hydrolysis
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What are the ways in which heterocysts are kept anaerobic
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Glycolysis is common to _______ and ______ metabolism
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What is the difference between anaerobic,aerobic and fermentation
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How many ATP made per glucose molecule
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coli has ____different protein complexes to oxidise electron donors and ___ for reducing
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State 5 examples of chemoorganotrophs and details about each
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coli, what is the difference in terms of PMF generated between aaerobic and anaerobic?
State the 4 main electron acceptors from the most energy to least
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State three ways of culturing anaerobes
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Draw out the nitrogen cycle
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Explain what happens in the nitrate reduction in E
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Microbial physiology questions sheet
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Most denitrifying bacteria are ___________
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coli can switch between aerobic and anaerobic respiration
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What are the two ways of sulphur reduction?
Draw a flow diagram to show assimilative and dissimilative sulphate reduction to H2S
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What colour are sulphur oxidising bacteria?
Sulphur oxidising bacteria can grow on _____ and _____ ph
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State three examples of SOX and some details
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Iron oxidation is converting Fe2+to Fe3+
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What does sulphur do for acidithiobacillus ferroxidans
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What are the two unique enzymes?
State somethings about carboxysomes
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What is methanogenesis and Methanotrophy
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What are the two coenzymes
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Explain how acetaqte is used in methanogenesis
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What are methylatrophs?
Draw the flow chart with the enzymes for the methane oxidation
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In acetyl co A pathway one co2 becomes ______and another becomes _______
Title: Microbial biochemistry questions
Description: These notes would be ideal for an undergraduate student in biological sciences, specifically but not limited to microbiology. The questions are divided into different lectures. This would be a great resource for a student to test what they learnt before an exam since the questions vary in difficulty and are laid out in an easy to follow layout.