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Counterstains have contrasting color to the primary stain.  

List the two major differential staining techniques:             [a]              [b] 

The purpose of staining cells on a microscope slide is to     

Assume you stain Bacillus megaterium by applying malachite green with heat and then counterstaining with safranin. Through the microscope, the green structures are    

List the three  bacterial structures that are colored and isolated via Special Stains:          [a]          [b]          [c]

Match the following terms to their correct description: sterile                    cloudiness, due to cell replication in liquid medium colony              tiny sample of specimen that is put into a medium culture                      absence of any life forms and viral particles media                                macroscopic microbial growth forms turbidity       microbial growth following incubating the specimen inoculum                                  nutrients to sustain microbial growth

Bacterial smears are fixed before staining to    

In the name Escherichia coli, coli is the              

Viruses    

Match the following terms to the correct definition:  infectious disease                       microbes that colonize inside and outside of body pathogenic                         abnormal state of health due to invasion by pathogenic microbes bioremediation                  natural chemicals produced by microbes that work against others resistance                                                     disease producing normal microbiota                                       probes used to move and position atoms recombinant DNA                                       ability to ward of disease antibiotics                                       genetic engineering resulting in hybrid genetic material nanotechnology                                            using microbes to remove toxins