Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781118743164
Author: Jacquelyn G. Black, Laura J. Black
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 7, Problem 3CTQ
Suppose you are a medical technician working in a hospital laboratory and you collected a sputum sample from a critically ill patient suspected of having tuberculosis. You, of course, go back to the lab and attempt to culture and identify this dangerous, fastidious, and slow-growing microorganism, a process that can take 8 weeks. However, a quick verification of the tuberculosis diagnosis is needed. Can you think of a possible method or technology that can help speed the process? If so, what is it and how does it work?
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Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
Ch. 7 - Compare and contrast chromosomes in prokaryotes...Ch. 7 - DNA is not always the gemetic material. What are...Ch. 7 - How could mutations give rise to new alleles of a...Ch. 7 - How does trandlation differ from transcription?Ch. 7 - Distinguish between leading and lagging strands.Ch. 7 - What do 5 and 3 refer to? How do they determine...Ch. 7 - Contrast the three kinds of RNA. Does DNA make all...Ch. 7 - What feeds back in feedback inhibition? What does...Ch. 7 - What is the inducer for the lac operon?Ch. 7 - Compare enzyme induction and enzyme repression.
Ch. 7 - If you had be exposed to a mutagen,would you...Ch. 7 - How can a change in geneotype fail to produce a...Ch. 7 - Why are nitrates and nitrites, which have been...Ch. 7 - Cathy develops a painful cluster of blister-like...Ch. 7 - Prokaryotes usually have just one chromosome and...Ch. 7 - During the early stages of development of the...Ch. 7 - Suppose you are a medical technician working in a...Ch. 7 - Match the following terms with their descriptions:Ch. 7 - Prob. 2SQCh. 7 - Prob. 3SQCh. 7 - Match the following terms with their respective...Ch. 7 - From the DNA template sequence 3-ATGCAGTAG-5, what...Ch. 7 - What type of RNA carries and transfers amino acids...Ch. 7 - What type of RNA carries the genetic information...Ch. 7 - Which of the following statements does not...Ch. 7 - Prob. 9SQCh. 7 - For the lac operon, match the following:Ch. 7 - Prob. 11SQCh. 7 - A frameshift mutation occurs following the: (a)...Ch. 7 - Prob. 13SQCh. 7 - Which of the following schemes for molecular...Ch. 7 - Suppose a point mutation occurred in the third...Ch. 7 - Prob. 16SQCh. 7 - (a) Why are bacteria useful in the study of...Ch. 7 - DNA damage in the form of dimers induced by UV...Ch. 7 - Prob. 19SQCh. 7 - Name and describe the effects of the following...
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