More Practice Problems for the First Quiz

I hope that you would be able to recognize things when you see them.  For example, were I to place in front of you a picture of a cell, you could tell me if it was prokaryotic or eukaryotic.  Name three things a eukaryotic cell has that a prokaryotic cell does not have? 

I would hope that you could identify a G(+) Bacillus from a G(-) E.coli.

With a picture in front of you, can you tell a pilus from a flagellum?

From lab, name the two types of media we have so far used in making our petri plates.  What are their purposes?

Know your relative volumes: 1 ml, 100 µl, 10 µl.

Know the essential thing in serial dilutions: If you add 1 unit of a culture to 9 units of water, how much of a dilution of the culture is that?  One-eighth? One-ninth?  One-tenth? or what?