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WK_3_Microbial_Nutrition.docxWK 3 ALT Microbial Nutrition
1. The organisms that can use inorganic carbon and the energy of chemical reactions ___________.
2. A _____________ requires organic molecules for carbon and energy from sunlight.
3. During _____________ transport water transfers through semipermeable following concentration gradient.
4. Microorganisms living in soil and water associated with volcanic activity, compost piles, habitats directly exposed to the sun are ________________.
5. In _____________ transport nutrients are transported against the diffusion gradient or in the same direction as the natural gradient but at a faster rate with energy expenditure
6. A____________ environment has a higher concentration of solutes outside the cell than inside the cell.
7. Pathogenic microbes have an optimum growth temperature in the___________ range.
8. A _____________ anaerobe can grow in the presence of oxygen but does not require it.
9. Obilgate ___________ inhabit the Dead Sea.
10. Most microorganisms grow at neutral pH and are called ______________
11. In a _____________ relationship, one member benefits and the other is harmed in some way.
12. In ___________ phase newly inoculated cells require a period of adjustment, enlargement, and synthesis; are not yet multiplying at their maximum rate.
13. The period during which the growth curve increases geometrically is called _____, the microbes are more vulnerable to these agents than those in the stationary phase.
14. ______________ release enzymes into environment to digest food into smaller particles that can be transported into the cell.
15. ____________ tube is used to identify the oxygen requirement of an unknown microorganism.
