Exam 1: Bacterial Cell Structure, Physiology, Metabolism, and Genetics

Diagnostic schemes in the microbiology laboratory typically analyze each unknown bacterium's metabolic processes for all the following, except

A microbiology technologist performs a traditional bacterial stain on a colony from a wound culture that is suspected to contain bacteria from the genus Clostridium. The unstained areas in the bacterial cell observed by the technologist are called

A microorganism that is a unicellular organism and lacks a nuclear membrane and true nucleus belongs to which classification?

Who was considered the father of protozoology and bacteriology?

Bacterial species that exhibit phenotypic differences are considered

What structure is described as a phospholipid bilayer embedded with proteins and sterols that regulates the type and amount of chemicals that pass in and out of a cell?

Lysogeny occurs when