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In the Gram stain a Gram-negative bacterium will stain what color?

As part of a class project, you go to the duck pond by the Miller administration building and dangle a magnet on a string into the water. A week later, when you come back and retrieve the magnet, you discover that it has a lot of bacteria on it. You want to know why. You suspect that the bacteria make granules of iron in their cytoplasm and when they swim too close they get stuck to the magnet. You take the magnet back to the lab and scrape off the bacteria into a test tube. You lyse (break open) the bacteria and measure the amount of iron in the test tube. The lysed bacteria have 100 parts per million (ppm) of iron. You also measure the amount of iron in an equal volume of pond water. The pond water only has 1 ppm of iron. You conclude that the bacteria contain more iron than the surrounding pond water and this is why they stick to the magnet. What part of the experiment was the control?

In 2012 several cases of a new severe respiratory illness were reported in Saudi Arabia and nearby countries. It was given the name Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Since then there have been several more outbreaks of MERS in Saudi Arabia as well as outbreaks in South Korea and Kenya (in camels) that were linked to people who had previously traveled to Saudi Arabia. With this information, what would be the best categorization of this infectious disease?

Which of the following is NOT produced using microbes?

Diseases that are caused by a microbe are called

What group do yeasts and molds belong to?

The antimicrobials produced by some molds and bacteria are generally called

The process where a cell creates a new mRNA using DNA as a template is called

A bacterium found growing in a soda lake (pH 10) would be considered

A boiling geyser in Yellowstone would most likely contain