Across
- 3. Equipment used to continuously culture cells
- 5. This substance adds strength to the endospore structure
- 6. A curved vibrio-shaped bacterial genus
- 11. Reciprocal of the generation time
- 13. Another term for the response of bacterial cells to ionic strength
- 16. A method used to count viable cells
- 17. This part of the flagellum is embedded in the Outer membrane of Gram-negative cells
- 19. Term used to describe a tuft of flagella at one end of a bacterium
- 21. Enzymes that create small openings in the cell wall
- 23. This step in cell wall synthesis is inhibited by penicillin
Down
- 1. Interval between when a culture is inoculated and when growth begins
- 2. This divisome protein facilitates the synthesis of peptidoglycan
- 4. This method for bacterial enumeration counts dead cells (along with live cells)
- 7. Name of the complex involved in cell division
- 8. Cell division process in bacterial cells
- 9. In a continuous culture, this parameter is controlled by the limited nutrient
- 10. Important in regulating the dilution rate in a chemostat
- 12. These structures confer buoyancy on bacterial cells
- 14. This protein is involved in cell shape
- 15. If this is too high, organisms in a continuous culture will be washed out
- 18. The junction that divides new and old peptidoglycan
- 20. The growth rate of this batch culture phase is zero
- 22. Partition in a dividing cell
