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Beginning with a bacterial culture containing 10 organisms/mL and assuming a generation time of 30 minutes (0.5hrs), approximately how long would it take for there to be 10,000 cells in the population?

Quorum sensing: (select all that apply)

Oxazolidinones work against all of the following “nasty” bugs, except:

Drugs used to treat malaria include:

The aminoglycosides and tetracyclines specifically target the [one] interfering with [two].

A microbiologist is attempting to determine the size of a microbial population and has employed several methods. She noticed that the direct count she obtained using a counting chamber and microscope was much higher than her estimate from doing a viable plate count. This discrepancy was encountered during multiple trials. What is the most likely reason for the discrepancy?

The use of the arsenic compound Salvarsan as a treatment for syphilis is credited to:

The chemotherapeutic agent must reach levels in the body that are ________ the pathogen’s MIC value if it is going to be effective.

Which of the following is the major reason why it has been difficult to treat viral infections with chemotherapeutic agents?

If you have the following DNA strand, what would you expect the complementary DNA strand to be? 5′ – ATG CAA GCG TTA GTA – 3′