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If bacteria has flagellum at each end what is the name of the species?
amphitrichous
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When flagellum is distributed throughout the surface of the cell?
peritrichous
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How many proteins is typical flagellum consist os?
20 proteins
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How does flagellum function within the cell?
uses the electrochemical gradient across the membrane
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How can we classify the vast variety of bacterial species?
grouping organisms based on similarities
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Can classification be helpful in determining differences between distinct species?
unclear
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What supports the uncertainty in classification between the same kind of bacteria?
lack of distinctive structures in most bacteria,
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What can lateral gene transfer create in bacteria?
different morphologies and metabolisms
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What is the way modern classification tries to determine species?
emphasizes molecular systematics
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What would original term "bacteria" determine?
all microscopic, single-cell prokaryotes
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What are two main groups of prokaryotic organisms are divided into?
Eubacteria and Archaebacteria
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What groups of organisms are closely related to each other?
archaea and eukaryotes
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What domain system is commonly used nowdays to classify microorganisms?
three-domain system
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What was developed by Hans Christian Gram?
The Gram stain
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What year was the Grahm stain was developed?
1884
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What color do Gram positive bacteria cell walls turn to after being stained?
purple
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What color is typical for Gram-negative bacteria after staining?
pink
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What stain shows better test results on Norcadia bacteria?
Ziehl–Neelsen
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What technique has becoming more popular in classification of bacteria?
molecular methods
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What tool does DNA based diagnostics use?
polymerase chain reaction
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What else can molecular methods of classification reveal?
identification of "viable but nonculturable" cells
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Can new methods determine a total number of bacteria species?
cannot even be estimated with any certainty
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Why are certain bacteria called predatory?
bacteria kill and then consume other microorganisms
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Which way do Vampirovibrio absorb nutrients of other microorganisms?
attach to their prey in order to digest them
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What technique do Daptobacter use in order to kill other microorganism?
invade another cell and multiply inside the cytosol
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Where do Daptobacter bacteria come from?
saprophages
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What helps bacteria to survive?
close spatial associations
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What kind of bacteria can form interspecies hydrogen transfer?
anaerobic bacteria
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What do anaerobic bacteria consume?
butyric acid or propionic acid
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Where do bacteria stay in soil?
rhizosphere
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What do bacteria do in soil?
converting nitrogen gas to nitrogenous compounds
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How does the conversion help the vegetation?
provide an easily absorbable form of nitrogen
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What is the amount of bacteria in human intestines?
over 1,000 bacterial species
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How does gut flora prevent growth of pathogenic bacteria?
through competitive exclusion
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What are the pathogenes?
bacteria form a parasitic association with other organisms
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What can pathogenes cause?
human death and disease
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Can cause for most pathogenic diseases be found soon?
may only be discovered many years after
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How pathogenes interact with it's human host?
pathogen has a characteristic spectrum of interactions
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Can all bacteria in human body be harmful?
exist on the skin or in the nose without causing any disease
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Which bacteria cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever disiease?
species of Rickettsia
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What type of antibiotics called bacterocidal?
if they kill bacteria
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What kind of antibiotics are used for prevention of bacterial growth
bacteriostatic
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Besides in treating human disease where else are antibiotics used?
in intensive farming to promote animal growth
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What is the drawback of using antibiotics if agriculture?
rapid development of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations
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What is common prevention method of infections in medicine?
sterilizing
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What quality of bacteria is being widely used re-cyling?
ability of bacteria to degrade a variety of organic compounds
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What is being used in cleaning up oil spills?
Bacteria
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What other way is bacteria aiding to nature?
used for the bioremediation
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What sciences use bacteria?
molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry
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When was the first time bacteria were observed?
1676
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Who discovered bacteria?
Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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How was he able to see bacteria?
using a single-lens microscope of his own design
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How long did it take for his discovery to be taken seriously?
over a century
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When was the first antibiotic discovered?
In 1910
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Who was the creator of antibiotic?
Paul Ehrlich
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What bacteria did he treat first?
Treponema pallidum
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How was his discovery aknowledged?
had been awarded a 1908 Nobel Prize
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Who based their research on Enrlich's stains works?
Gram stain and the Ziehl–Neelsen
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What's the more appropriate, but mostly unused, name for a printed circuit board when it doesn't have embedded components?
printed wiring board
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What's the abbreviation for a printed wiring board?
PWB
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What would we call a printed circuit board with embedded electronics, abbreviated PCA?
printed circuit assembly
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What organization likes the term "circuit card assembly" for boards that have already been assembled?
IPC
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What abbreviation would the IPC use for an assembled circuit board?
CCA
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What did PCB designers used to employ on a mylar sheet?
photomask
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In the old PCB design method, what was used to connect component pin pads?
traces
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What were traces originally made out of?
self-adhesive tape
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Designers would rub on a dry transfer of what to make the process of laying out components simpler?
common component footprints
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What kind of metal coated the blank boards used to make PCBs?
copper
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What process groups PCBs before transfer to a panel?
Panelization
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Is it more common for panels to have a single design or many designs?
a single design
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What type of panels can also be referred to as an "array?'
assembly panels
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Besides assembly panels, what's the other type of panel?
bare board manufacturing panels
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What step of the bare board manufacture would be impossible if panels weren't always used?
the plating process
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What is the process called whereby the individual PCBs are separated?
depaneling
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What boundaries would you follow to separate PCBs on a panel?
individual circuits
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What technology has made depaneling possible without needing to physically interact with the board?
lasers
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What does the V-shaped groove method save?
space
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe panel is eventually broken apart into individual PCBs; this is called depaneling. Separating the individual PCBs is frequently aided by drilling or routing perforations along the boundaries of the individual circuits, much like a sheet of postage stamps. Another method, which takes les...
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What delicate component is less likely to be damaged if laser depanelization is used?
circuits
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe panel is eventually broken apart into individual PCBs; this is called depaneling. Separating the individual PCBs is frequently aided by drilling or routing perforations along the boundaries of the individual circuits, much like a sheet of postage stamps. Another method, which takes les...
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Do additive or subtractive methods use less raw materials?
additive
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSubtractive methods remove copper from an entirely copper-coated board to leave only the desired copper pattern. In additive methods the pattern is electroplated onto a bare substrate using a complex process. The advantage of the additive method is that less material is needed and less was...
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What chemical element is often present in the bath used to sensitive exposed film after it's been imaged?
palladium
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSubtractive methods remove copper from an entirely copper-coated board to leave only the desired copper pattern. In additive methods the pattern is electroplated onto a bare substrate using a complex process. The advantage of the additive method is that less material is needed and less was...
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What object is used to expose selected parts of the photosensitive film to light?
mask
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSubtractive methods remove copper from an entirely copper-coated board to leave only the desired copper pattern. In additive methods the pattern is electroplated onto a bare substrate using a complex process. The advantage of the additive method is that less material is needed and less was...
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In subtractive methods, what metal covers the board and is then partially removed?
copper
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSubtractive methods remove copper from an entirely copper-coated board to leave only the desired copper pattern. In additive methods the pattern is electroplated onto a bare substrate using a complex process. The advantage of the additive method is that less material is needed and less was...
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In the additive method, which parts of the laminate are plated with copper?
sensitized areas
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSubtractive methods remove copper from an entirely copper-coated board to leave only the desired copper pattern. In additive methods the pattern is electroplated onto a bare substrate using a complex process. The advantage of the additive method is that less material is needed and less was...
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In the semi-additive process, what do the areas exposed by the mask become at the end?
traces
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSemi-additive is the most common process: The unpatterned board has a thin layer of copper already on it. A reverse mask is then applied. (Unlike a subtractive process mask, this mask exposes those parts of the substrate that will eventually become the traces.) Additional copper is then pl...
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What metal is used to plate the unmasked parts of the board in the semi-additive method?
copper
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSemi-additive is the most common process: The unpatterned board has a thin layer of copper already on it. A reverse mask is then applied. (Unlike a subtractive process mask, this mask exposes those parts of the substrate that will eventually become the traces.) Additional copper is then pl...
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After the mask comes off of the board, what step takes off the original plating?
etching
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSemi-additive is the most common process: The unpatterned board has a thin layer of copper already on it. A reverse mask is then applied. (Unlike a subtractive process mask, this mask exposes those parts of the substrate that will eventually become the traces.) Additional copper is then pl...
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What company used to make radios with additive boards in the mid-20th century?
General Electric
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSemi-additive is the most common process: The unpatterned board has a thin layer of copper already on it. A reverse mask is then applied. (Unlike a subtractive process mask, this mask exposes those parts of the substrate that will eventually become the traces.) Additional copper is then pl...
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What weight of plating is possible with copper?
any
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nSemi-additive is the most common process: The unpatterned board has a thin layer of copper already on it. A reverse mask is then applied. (Unlike a subtractive process mask, this mask exposes those parts of the substrate that will eventually become the traces.) Additional copper is then pl...
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What non-professionals might use immersion etching, since it's the easiest way to make a PCB?
hobbyists
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride. Compared with methods used for mass production, the etching time is long. Heat and agitation can be applied to the...
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Is the immersion etching process long or short compared to other production methods?
long
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride. Compared with methods used for mass production, the etching time is long. Heat and agitation can be applied to the...
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If you wanted to speed up the etching process, you could agitate the bath up or add what to it?
Heat
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride. Compared with methods used for mass production, the etching time is long. Heat and agitation can be applied to the...
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What funny name is used for the etching process where air is blown through the etching solution to get it moving around?
bubble etching
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride. Compared with methods used for mass production, the etching time is long. Heat and agitation can be applied to the...
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What's the fastest and most easily controlled process for etching?
spray etching
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nThe simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride. Compared with methods used for mass production, the etching time is long. Heat and agitation can be applied to the...
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If you started with a two-sided laminate etched on either side, laminated to the top and bottom, and processed it again to get traces on the outside layers, how many layers would your final PCB have?
four
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nMulti-layer printed circuit boards have trace layers inside the board. This is achieved by laminating a stack of materials in a press by applying pressure and heat for a period of time. This results in an inseparable one piece product. For example, a four-layer PCB can be fabricated by sta...
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What makes up the inside of a multi-layer PCB?
trace layers
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nMulti-layer printed circuit boards have trace layers inside the board. This is achieved by laminating a stack of materials in a press by applying pressure and heat for a period of time. This results in an inseparable one piece product. For example, a four-layer PCB can be fabricated by sta...
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Pressure is one thing you need to apply to make a multi-layer PCB; what's the other thing?
heat
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nMulti-layer printed circuit boards have trace layers inside the board. This is achieved by laminating a stack of materials in a press by applying pressure and heat for a period of time. This results in an inseparable one piece product. For example, a four-layer PCB can be fabricated by sta...
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What tool is used to push the trace layers in a multi-layer PCB together?
press
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nMulti-layer printed circuit boards have trace layers inside the board. This is achieved by laminating a stack of materials in a press by applying pressure and heat for a period of time. This results in an inseparable one piece product. For example, a four-layer PCB can be fabricated by sta...
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What kind of drill bit do you need to drill holes in a PCB?
coated tungsten carbide
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nHoles through a PCB are typically drilled with small-diameter drill bits made of solid coated tungsten carbide. Coated tungsten carbide is recommended since many board materials are very abrasive and drilling must be high RPM and high feed to be cost effective. Drill bits must also remain ...
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What kind of material sometimes used for drilling will lose sharpness quickly if used for PCBs?
high-speed-steel
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nHoles through a PCB are typically drilled with small-diameter drill bits made of solid coated tungsten carbide. Coated tungsten carbide is recommended since many board materials are very abrasive and drilling must be high RPM and high feed to be cost effective. Drill bits must also remain ...
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What property do PCBs have that makes them tough to drill through?
abrasive
[ "Printed_circuit_board\n\nHoles through a PCB are typically drilled with small-diameter drill bits made of solid coated tungsten carbide. Coated tungsten carbide is recommended since many board materials are very abrasive and drilling must be high RPM and high feed to be cost effective. Drill bits must also remain ...