Explain how an high salt or sugar concentration preserves food.

How does alcohol used in acid fast staining differ from the decolorizer used in gram staining?

Differentiate between germination and sporulation.

Identify a bacteria with capsule

Explain what would happen to a bacterial culture if it were grown at its optimum temperature and then placed in a growth environment that was 20 degrees Celcius above it’s maximum temperature. Describe only about its growth.

What biological factors are affected by pH, temperature and osmotic pressure? 

Explain how an high salt or sugar concentration preserves food.

Based on classifying organisms according to their optimum pH, a bacterium that grows optimally in the stomach would be classified as a (an) __________________.

Name a bacterium classified as an alkanophile __________________________________