SWIC Bio 250 Exam 2 2025 Edition with
Precise Answers.
1. what is a n obligate aerobes? - Correct Ans: ✔✔can not grow
without oxygen an example of this is tuberculosis
2. What is a microaerophile? - Correct Ans: ✔✔an organism that
grows in low oxygen concentrations
3. what do microbes eat? - Correct Ans: ✔✔just about anything
including styrofoam
4. What is bioremediation? - Correct Ans: ✔✔the use of either
naturally occurring or deliberately introduced microorganisms
or other forms of life to consume and break down
environmental pollutants, in order to clean up a polluted site.
and example would be cleaning up oil spills
5. 4 factors that will affect the functioning of microbes enzymes
and their survival. - Correct Ans: ✔✔temperature,gas,pH,
other microbes
6. Define optimum temperature - Correct Ans: ✔✔promotes the
fastest rate of growth and metabolism. the temp an organism
grows best in
