Bio 251 -- Chapter 7 objectives

  1. What are sources of essential nutrients for bacteria?
  2. How do these nutrients vary from microbe to microbe?
  3. What sources provide more than one nutrient for a microbe?
  4. Define the different microbial nutrition types with respect to carbon and energy sources.
  5. Describe how nutrients are transported into microbes both passively and actively.
  6. Describe the various temperature requirements of microbes.
  7. Describe the various gas (oxygen) requirements of microbes.
  8. What are the major types of microbial interactions?
  9. Describe binary fission, and the phenomenon of generation time.
  10. Describe the normal bacterial population growth curve.
  11. How do we measure numbers of bacteria and bacterial growth?