Match the Following Terms or Phrases with the Correct Description

question 24

Multiple Choice

Match the following terms or phrases with the correct description or definition.​
-​Chemostats

• A)Devices which allow bacterial cultures to be grown at a steady rate by removing waste products and adding fresh nutrients.
• B)The amount of cloudiness present of a bacterial population in liquid media.
• C)Groups of chemical compounds which, when linked together form the building blocks of DNA or RNA.
• D)A solution with osmotic pressure lower than inside a cell, causing cell to swell with fluid.
• E)Essential organic compounds which cannot be synthesized by some microbes so must be obtained from the surrounding environment.
• F)Ability of bacteria to communicate by way of secreted factors such as Autoinducers and behave as a cohesive group rather than as individuals.
• G)A laboratory device which spins specimens to separate fluids of differing density or liquids from solids.
• H)An adherent layer created by a multicellular group bound by an extracellular matrix produced by the colony.
• I)Microbes with optimum temperature of 98.6° F or 37° C, normal human body temperature.
• J)A mixture in which solid particles are mixed into and spread throughout a liquid medium.

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