Microbial physiology

The source of the necessary elements of life is:

• an inorganic environmental reservoir

• the sun

• rocks

• the air

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An obligate halophile requires high:

a) pH

• pH

• temerperature

• salt

• pressure

An organism that can synthesize all its required organic components from CO₂ using energy from the sun is a:

• photoautotroph

• photoheterotroph

• chemoautotroph

• chemoheterotroph

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Chemoautotrophs can survive on ______alone.

• methane

• minerals

• CO₂

• minerals and CO₂

Active transport of a substance across a membrane requires:

• a gradient

• the expenditure of ATP

• water

• diffusion

_________is another term for biosynthesis

• catabolism

• anabolism

• metabolism

• catalyst

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Catabolism is a form of metabolism in which _____molecules are converted into ________molecules.

• large, small

• small, large

• amino acid, protein

• food, storage

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Complete oxidation of glucose in aerobic respiration can yield a net output of _____ATP

• 40

• 6

• 38

• 2

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The compound that enters the TCA cycle from glycolysis is

• citric acid

• oxalocetic acid

• pyruvic acid

• acetyl coenzyme A

Most oxidation reactions in microbial bioenergetics involve the

• removal of electrons and hydrogens

• addition of electrons and hydrogens

• addition of oxygen

• removal of oxygen

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