respiratory diseases or viral infections and people who have weakened immune systems are at greater risk. Pneumonia bacteria are present in some healthy throats. When body defenses are weakened in some way‚ by illness‚ old age‚ malnutrition‚ general debility or impaired immunity‚ the bacterial can multiply and cause serious damage. Usually‚ when a person’s resistance is lowered‚ bacteria work their way into the lungs and inflame the air sacs. The tissue part of a lobe of the lung‚ an entire lobe‚ or
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INTRODUCTION The enzyme catalase converts hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to water and O2. The evolution of O2 causes bubbling. Thus‚ catalase-positive organisms that are mixed into hydrogen peroxide will cause bubbling (catalase-negative organisms will not). This test is good for distinguishing between Gram-positive cocci in chains (catalase negative) versus Gram-positive cocci in clusters (catalase positive). The coagulase test is used to differentiate Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative
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diseases can kill many people that are drinking water on the tap water and mostly on the drinking fountain; people might drink on a drinking fountain which is dirty because of the different people that are drinking and spiting their saliva on to it‚ bacteria can easily contaminate the water that is coming out from the drinking fountain. Bacteria’s are also found everywhere in the surroundings; even the sink in our home might have bacteria’s because of the dirty place‚ and in the school also have bacteria’s
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Aims The purpose of the two experiments was to determine the fundamental effects that temperature has on the growth and survival of bacteria. During the first experiment five different bacterial broth cultures of Escherichia coli‚ Pseudomonas fluorescens‚ Enterococcus faecalis‚ Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus stearothermophilus were individually incubated at temperatures of 5‚ 25‚ 37‚ 45 and 55°C for one week in an aim to distinguish the effect temperature has on growth and survival of the five different
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Title: Observing Bacteria and Blood- Lab #1 Purpose: Being able to learn how to correctly use a microscope and the oil immersion lens to be able to see the prepared slides. Also to learn how to prepare my own yogurt and blood slides. Procedure: First‚ set up the microscope. Clean the ocular lenses and objectives with lens paper. Then pace the prepared e slide on the stage and make adjustments. Turn the rotating nosepiece until the 10x objective is above the ring of light coming through the slide
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Material Appendix B – Identifying Bacteria Bacteria identification is accomplished in a number of ways. Two common tools microbiologists use to identify unknown bacteria include dichotomous key and biochemical tests. The dichotomous key is useful when a microbiologist only needs to know which group an unknown microbe belongs to on a general level. When a microbiologist needs to identify a specific bacterium‚ biochemical tests are used. PART ONE: GENERAL BACTERIA IDENTIFICATION Review the dichotomous
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Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria For about 50 years‚ antibiotics have been the answer to many bacterial infections. Antibiotics are chemical substances that are secreted by living things. Doctors prescribed these medicines to cure many diseases. During World War II‚ it treated one of the biggest killers during wartime - infected wounds. It was the beginning of the antibiotic era. But just when antibiotics were being mass produced‚ bacteria started to evolve and became resistant to these medicines
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observing various bacterial shapes and their arrangements in different types of specimens of bacteria. The microscope parts and capabilities were clearly identified and used successfully and the bacteria were clearly illustrated showing the bacterial shapes and arrangements with all the appropriate magnification being utilized. Through various magnifications using 10x‚ 40x and 100x oil immersion lenses‚ the bacteria specimens‚ along with fresh and prepared yogurt‚ demonstrated full visual optical views
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Effectiveness of Garlic in Fighting Bacteria Introduction This experiment determined whether garlic was effective in fighting bacteria. This project interested me because garlic is traditionally used in medicine and is known to combat bacteria. Hypothesis If bacteria is exposed to garlic‚ then the garlic will to abolish the Escherichia coli‚ because the Escherichia coli (E. coli) is usually a weak bacteria. Procedure Have three petri dishes prepared with blood agar‚ and three test tubes
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It is thought that archaea and bacteria were diverged early in their existence because of all the dissimilarities between the two groups. Both bacteria and archaea are enclosed in cell membranes. Archaea have a single cell membrane that absences a peptidoglycan wall and also their genetic transcription and translation‚ the two main processes in molecular biology do not show the typical bacterial features‚ but are quite similar to those of eukaryotes. Archaea are more related to eukaryotes‚ even though
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