Microbial Growth Chapter 6
- Growth Requirements
- Physical Requirements
- temperature
- optimum growth temperature
- psychrophils
- psychrotrophs
- mesophiles
- thermophiles
- hyperthermophiles
- pH
- neutrophiles
- acidophiles
- alkalophiles
- osmotic pressure
- plasmolysis
- halophiles
- extreme halophiles
- facultative halophiles
- Chemical Requirements
- major elements
- trace elements
- oxygen
- obligate aerobes
- obligate anaerobes
- facultative anaerobes
- microaerophiles
- aerotolerant anaerobes
- Biofilms
- Quorum sensing
- Advantages
- Culture Media
- inoculum
- culture
- sterile
- Chemically defined
- Complex
- Special
- Selective & Differential
- Enrichment
- Storage
- Growth
- Bacterial division
- binary fission
- logarithmic
- microbial growth
- Generation time
- Phases of growth
- closed system
- growth curve
- lag phase
- log phase
- stationary phase
- death phase
- colony growth
- continuous culture
- Measurement
- direct
- plate counts
- colony forming units
- pour and spread plate
- filtration
- most probable number
- direct count
- indirect
- turbidity
- metabolic activity
- dry wt.