You Place an Inoculum of Your Bacterium on a Glass

question 73

Multiple Choice

You place an inoculum of your bacterium on a glass slide and add a drop of hydrogen peroxide reagent.Promptly you see bubbles appear, indicating the presence of a particular enzyme that the bacterium produces.What type of identification test does this exemplify?

• A)Precipitation test
• B)Immunochromatography
• C)Microarray
• D)Biochemical test

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Definitions:

Opportunity Cost

Giving up potential improvements from various alternatives by choosing one option.

Scarcity

Scarcity refers to the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources, leading to the necessity of allocation decisions.

Production

The process of combining various inputs to make goods or services for consumption.

Comparative Advantage

The capacity of an individual or country to manufacture a given good or service more efficiently, incurring lower opportunity costs than their counterparts.