Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 28

Critical thinking is the ability to reason and solve problems using facts and concepts. These questions can be approached from a number of angles and, in most cases, they do not have a single correct answer.
a. Define the term osmophile and provide examples of osmophilic microbes living in the environment and on the human body.
b. Opening the last jar of strawberry jam that he processed at home last June, Sam finds a lawn of fuzzy growth on the surface of the jam. Explain what type of microbe he is most likely seeing and how it could have survived the high sugar environment within the strawberry preserves.