(a) Distinguish between biofilms and microbial mats and describe their relative significance.

Q: List three (3) advantages microbes have when living in a biofilm, as compared to planktonic growth.…

A: Some bacteria live in the group/aggregates and form a strong structural network, that provides lots…

Q: structured and unstructured model of microbial growth.

A: Microbial growth refers to an increase in the number of cells rather than an increase in cell size.…

Q: 2. Diagram (draw) how biofilms forms on the surface of an indwelling device. Explain how biofilms…

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Q: Imagine a sewage plant that is releasing sewage containinghigh levels of ammonia and phosphate and…

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Q: Biofilms often consist of multiple species of bacteria.True or false?

A: Bacteria are the prokaryotic organisms. They are unicellular type.

Q: Bacterial biofilm may link to

A: Answer: Biofilms are the complex structure composed by the various microbes such as bacteria , fungi…

Q: explain the factors that influence the growth of microorganisms

A: There are various factors that influences growth of microorganisms.

Q: Biofilm is

A: Answer is option c.) Colonial organism.

Q: List and explain three key roles of microorganisms

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Q: Describe the basic process of biofilm formation.

A: Biofilm refers to the collective growth of microorganisms on different surfaces. The microorganisms…

Q: Describe a detrimental and a beneficial effect of biofilms.

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Q: Describe why a microbial mat has green, reddish-pink, and black layers.

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Q: Based on your observations of microorganisms in their living state, which between the wet mount…

A: the hanging drop method is better because it allow for longer time visualisation .

Q: Relate several advantages to communication within a biofilm.

A: Biofilms are complex bacterial communities that are adherent to a surface, an interface or to each…

Q: Describe functional media; list several different categories, andexplain what characterizes each…

A: The functional media consist of nutrients and chemicals for bacterial growth. The functional media…

Q: Discuss why the presence of biofilms may be beneficial to microbes yet problematic to humans.

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Q: What happens to microbes that encounter temperatures belowtheir minimum and above their maximum…

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Q: Describe the importance of a microorganism’s requirements for temperature, O2 , pH, and water…

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Q: Discuss biofilms with regard to their formation, unique properties, and significance to the…

A: Biofilms as the name suggests are films of living organisms ( microbes ). They are highly…

Q: Explain how biofilms form and why they are important

A: A biofilm consist of living microorganisms such as bacteria that live in colony. Biofilm form when…

Q: Characterize morphologically the microbial specimens

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Q: List four commercially important benefits of microorganisms.

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Q: Explain why it is important to prevent microbes from growing inspecimens, and why speed is so…

A: Specimen collection is the process of collecting sample which is supposed to contain the infectious…

Q: Describe a microbial biofilm. Discuss why it is likely that a biofilm contains bacteria with…

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Q: Would gram negative or gram positive bacteria have an advantage over the other in these tonicities?…

A: A lipopolysaccharide-containing outer membrane surrounds the peptidoglycan cell wall that encases…

Q: List and explain the six types of microorganisms.

A: Microorganisms are unicellular, multicellular or microscopic cell clusters. These are beneficial or…

Q: Describe the steps in biofilm formation using the words planktonic organisms, quorum, quorum…

A: Biofilm: Biofilm is defined as the complex aggregation of microorganisms on the surface by…

Q: Biofilm formation take place to destruct and threatened the organisms, also discuss its beneficial…

A: Biofilm : - It is a community of microorganisms, which is irreversibly attached to the surface and…

Q: Distinguish between microbicidal and microbistatic effects on microbes,and tell why it is important…

A: There are different chemicals that produce a different effect on the microbes and at the variable…

Q: Give situations of biofilms and explain what they are.

A: A colony is comprised of two or more intraspecific individuals who live in close proximity to or are…

Q: How would you describe vulnerabilty in times of calamities?

A: Calamity is an event that happened naturally and causes harm and misery. Calamity causes widespread…

Q: Give the factors that influence the appearance of microbial colony.

A: An group of microbes that can be seen and that grows on the surface of a solid medium or in a solid…

Q: What factors govern the extent and type of microbial activityin soils?

A: The soil is defined as unconsolidated mineral or organic material present in the earth’s immediate…

Q: List at least four beneficial activities of microorganisms.

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Q: bacterial cell membrane and describe their important role in microbial growth and metabolism.

A: Bacteria are ubiquitous , mostly free living organism.

Q: Distinguish between the terms halophilic and halotolerant microorganisms. Give one example of each.

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Q: Describe why bacterial biofilms can be a threat to human health.

A: A biofilm can be defined as a surface attached community of micro-organisms embedded and growing in…

Q: Biofilm formation begins when microbes attach to a surface using their.   A. Cell Wall B.…

A: Biofilms are microbial cells that have clustered together on a surface. It is joined together by…

Q: Describe a biofilm and explain how it benefits its inhabitants

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Q: Write a note on the measurement of growth of microorganisms, factors influence microbial growth and…

A: Microbial growth can be defined as the growth of a population or an increase in the number of cells,…

Q: In simpler terms explain Lag, Log, Stationary, and Death Phase in the Microbial Growth Curve?

A: Bacterial growth: - Increase in the number of cells. - Bacterial growth in a closed system (Batch…

Q: Which one of the below given biomolecules can serve as the immobilized layer on biomaterials…

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Terrestrial Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a collection of interconnected communities. It includes both living and non-living elements of specific strata. The terrestrial ecosystem is solely related to the ecosystem present on the land and covers 25 to 30% of the total earth’s surface area.