Please match the technologies with the statements that most accurately describe them to test your understanding of the methods and characteristics used in classifying bacteria. These tests use the presence or absence of biochemical processes and enzymes to group organisms
A) Morphology
B) Bacterial physiology/biochemistry
C) Serological analysis
D) Genetic techniques
B) Bacterial physiology/biochemistry
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The natural habitat of the bacterium Sphingobacterium is:
a. environment. b. animal oral and respiratory flora. c. environment, cold climates. d. human normal flora.
Name one reward that a pollinator may receive in return for a visit to a flower of a coevolved plant
What will be an ideal response?
Over evolutionary time, many cave-dwelling organisms have lost their eyes. Tapeworms have lost their digestive systems. Whales have lost their hind limbs. How can natural selection account for these losses?
A. Natural selection cannot account for losses, only for innovations. B. Natural selection accounts for these losses by the principle of use and disuse. C. The ancestors of these organisms experienced harmful mutations that forced them to find new habitats that these species had not previously used. D. Under particular circumstances that persisted for long periods, each of these structures presented greater costs than benefits.
The mass, controlled culture of microbes to produce desired organic compounds is ________.
A. bioremediation B. biotechnology C. fermentation D. biosynthesis