Blog

In _______________________, an inhibitory factor binds to the active site to block the substrate.

You discover that microbes need the sugar foxmoonose for metabolism. Predict the basic process of how foxmoonose would be used by the prokaryotic microbes. How would the foxmoonase sugar stay in the cell?

Select all non-

E. coli efflux pumps [______] the MIC of antibiotics.

Colistin is a last-reserve polymyxin antibiotic prescribed against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections that rapidly develop resistance to antibiotics. In fact, bacteria carrying mcr family genes are already resistant to colistin. According to the WHO antibiotic classification, colistin is

Select all non-

Biofilms are_____. Check all that apply

Check all routes through which bacteria can enter the air:

Cells within biofilms have high metabolic activity; hence, they are susceptible to antibiotics. 

Which of the following represents an example of a lateral gene transfer? Check all that apply.