The document provides an overview of microbial nutrition, ecology, and growth. It includes questions about how microbes acquire nutrients, the differences between essential and nonessential nutrients, macronutrients and micronutrients, autotrophs and heterotrophs, and how photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs obtain energy. Additional questions cover microbial growth conditions, temperature ranges, oxygen requirements, reproduction, and growth curves.
The document provides an overview of microbial nutrition, ecology, and growth. It includes questions about how microbes acquire nutrients, the differences between essential and nonessential nutrients, macronutrients and micronutrients, autotrophs and heterotrophs, and how photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs obtain energy. Additional questions cover microbial growth conditions, temperature ranges, oxygen requirements, reproduction, and growth curves.
The document provides an overview of microbial nutrition, ecology, and growth. It includes questions about how microbes acquire nutrients, the differences between essential and nonessential nutrients, macronutrients and micronutrients, autotrophs and heterotrophs, and how photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs obtain energy. Additional questions cover microbial growth conditions, temperature ranges, oxygen requirements, reproduction, and growth curves.
The document provides an overview of microbial nutrition, ecology, and growth. It includes questions about how microbes acquire nutrients, the differences between essential and nonessential nutrients, macronutrients and micronutrients, autotrophs and heterotrophs, and how photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs obtain energy. Additional questions cover microbial growth conditions, temperature ranges, oxygen requirements, reproduction, and growth curves.
Chapter 7 Elements of Microbial Nutrition, Ecology and Growth
Building Your Knowledge
I) What is the process by which organisms acquire nutrients from the environment? 2) How do essential nutrients differ fro m nonessential nutrients?
3) Differentiate between micronutrients and macronutrients.
Category
Quantities Used
Use in Bacterial Cell
Examples
Macronutrients Micronutrients
4) What is the difference between heterotrophs and autotrophs?
Autotrophs get carbon from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Heterotrophs get carbon from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 5) How do photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs differ in how ihey get energy? Photoautotrophs get energy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Chemoautotrophs get energy _ __ _ _ _ __
6) Photosynthetic algae get carbon and energy from _ _ _ _ _ _ __
7) Humans and most bacteria are
(autotrophs or heterotrophs).
8) What is the difference between saprobes and parasites/pathogens?
9) Can obligate parasites be cultured using solid, synthetic media?
10) All viruses and some bacteria are obligate intracellular parasites. Name one bacterial species and one virus that is an obligate intracellular parasite.
a. b.
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11) Without the addition of energy, do molecules move from high concentrations to low concentrations or from low concentrations to high concentrations? Explain your answer.
12) Draw a cell in hypertonic, isotonic and hypotonic solutions. Use x' s to indicate solute molecules. Which cel ls shrink? Which swell?
Hypertonic
Isotonic
What does a bacterial cell wall protect against?
13) How are faci litated diffusion and active transport similar?
How are they different?
Do both require energy?
14) When is active transport necessary?
What advantage does group translocation have over simple pumps?
15) What are the three cardinal temperatures of microbial growth?
16)00 all microbes have similar temperature ranges? Exp lain.
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Hypotonic
17) What are psychrophiles, mesophiles, and thermophiles?
Which are of concern to food microbiologists?
Which are most commonly pathogenic?
18) How do the oxygen requirements of obligate aerobes, facultative anaerobes, microaerophiles and obl igate anaerobes differ?
19) How would each grow in thioglycolate broth? Draw each test tube.
Obligate aerobe
Microaerophile
Obligate Anaerobe
Facultati ve Anaerobe
20) Halophiles live in extreme _ _ __ ______ conditions.
21) Barophiles live in extreme _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ conditions. 22) How do bacteria reproduce? Draw the process of binary fission below.
23) If you place 100 bacterial cells in media and their doubling time is 30 minutes, how many cells are in the media at the end of 5 hours?
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24) Do all bacteria reproduce at the same rate? Explain and give examples.
25) Draw a growth curve of bacteria in batch culture, labeling lag phase, log phase, stationary phase and death phase.
Time 26) Which stage has the fastest-growing bacteria? 27) Why do cultures move from log phase to stationary phase?
28) Why do cultures move from stationary to death phase?
29) How may we count bacteria? (list 3 ways) Which methods count live cells only?
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Organizing Your Knowledge
Type of Bacteria Psycbrophile
Living Conditions Preferred
Acidic pH
Obligate anaerobe
Small amounts of oxygen
Alkalinophile
Extreme salt conditions
Osmophile
Moderate temperatures
Barophile
Extreme heat
Obligate Aerobe
Can grow with or without oxygen
Micronutrient
Use in Bacterial Cells
Potassium Sodium Calcium Magnesium Iron
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Macronutrient
Use in Bacterial Cells
Carbon
Source or Environmental Reservoir Autotrophs Heterotrophs
Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorus Sulfur
Relationship Mutualism
Interaction (+/+, +/-, +/0, etc.)
Symbiotic (yes/no?)
Commensalism Parasitism Synergism Antagonism
Stage of Growth Curve Lag phase
What's Happening?
Growth Speed (fast/slow/level)
Exponential phase Stationary phase Death phase
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Live/dead cell ratio
Practicing Your Knowledge
I. If placed in a hypertonic solution, most bacterial cells will - -
8. Strict halophiles are commonly human
pathogens.
a. burst if they lack a cell wall
b. remain unchanged c. shrink and die d. change color
a. True b. False 9. Photosynthetic bacteria are considered _
a. nonexistent- bacteria don't have
chloroplasts b. heterotrophs because they feed off dead things c. autotrophs because they get their carbon from carbon dioxide d. saprobes because they feed off dead things
2. Bacteria preferring low temperatures for
optimum growth are called_ _ . a. barophiles b. halophiles c. thermophiles d. psychrophiles 3. Macronutrients are required by cells in __ quantities and are used to _ .
10. As a bacterial culture grows, the media
a. small: boost enzyme function
b. large: boost enzyme function c. small: form cell structures d. large: form cell structures
a. gets thicker because of all the bacteria
b. gets cloudier because of all the bacteria c. gets wanner because of the heat generated by bacterial cells d. gets clearer because the bacteria consume all the nutrients
4. Which of the following methods
measures live bacterial cells only? a. turbidity b. plate counts c. cytometer d. Coulter counter
I I. What is the correct order for a growth
curve progression, with bacterial cells in batch culture?
5. Which of the following transport
processes requires energy?
a. lag phase - exponential - stationary
b. stationary - lag phase - exponential c. exponential - stationary - lag phase d. lag phase - stationary - exponential
a. diffusion b. osmosis c. facilitated diffusion d. group translocation
12. Bacteria lacking superoxide dismutase
and catalase are
6. Which of the following microbial
associations is NOT symbiotic?
a. strict aerobes b. strict anaerobes c. facultative anaerobes d. strict acidophiles
a. mutualism b. commensalism c. synergism d. parasitism
13. What are the three cardinal temperatures
for microbial growth?
7. Which phase of the growth curve sees an
equal rate of bacterial death and reproduction?
a. hypertonic, isotonic and hypotonic
b. minimUl11, maximum and optimum c. aerobic, anaerobic and microaerobic d. halophile, barophile, oSl11ophile
a. lag phase b. stationary phase c. exponential phase d. death phase
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15. Most human pathogens are _ __
14. Active transport mechanisms are
req uired to _
a. mesophiles b. psychrophiles c. thermophiles d. psychrotrophs
a. move nutrients from high to low
concentrations
b. move any nutrient across a plasma
membrane c. complete facilitated diffusion d. move molecules from low to high concentrations
