⟩ What is electron Binding Energy?
The amount of energy required to remove an electron from its orbit in an atom. This amount is subtracted from the initial energy acquired by the photon or electron once it leaves the proximity of the atom.
The amount of energy required to remove an electron from its orbit in an atom. This amount is subtracted from the initial energy acquired by the photon or electron once it leaves the proximity of the atom.
Characteristics of a bacterial capsule include?
As a budding basic scientist you work in a research laboratory and discover a chemical that removes the cell wall from bacteria but leaves the organism undamaged otherwise. Things that the bacteria will lose because of this include?
Under the electron microscope you keep at home next to your MP3 player you look at a single bacterium living in your mouth. You see a single polar flagellum stretching off from one end looking very much like a tail. A characteristic of this organism should be?
On the same day the clinical laboratory identifies two strains of the same bacterial species. One of these strains has pili on the surface; the other does not. In terms of the clinical status of the two patients it is likely that?
Infections caused by anaerobes are?
The laboratory reports that both blood cultures that are drawn from a 15 year old girl are growing Bacteroides fragilis. She was admitted to the hospital because of acute abdominal pain. You should be concerned that?
Anaerobic infections are?
Specific organisms that are considered strict anaerobes include?
The single most important characteristic of diarrhea caused by Vibrio cholera is?
A 15 year old boy comes in to clinic with pain in his right ear. He is on his school swim team and spends about 2 hours per day in the pool. Along with the pain in his ear, he has watery drainage coming from the ear canal. On exam his vital signs are normal, and he appears healthy, but his left external ear looks quite red and there is copious watery, slightly green drainage coming from the ear. The organism mostly likely causing this is?