Final Exam Questions...courtesy of your peers!

Here are the questions everyone turned in to be added to the final.

1. Why are thermophiles able to grow and thrive in such high temperatures?
2. What is the PCR process? What is it used for?
3. What part of thermophiles are used in PCR?
4. Mycorrhizae: What are they?
5. Do fungi reproduce asexually or sexually?
6. Mycelium: What is it’s location on a fungus?
7. Yeast is part of the ______Kingdom, has a high/average/low metabolic rate, and grows as normal cells and/or pseudomycelium.
8. Candida yeast are commonly/sometimes/rarely present in the human body, cause inflammation when the immune system __________and are aerobic/anaerobic.
9. Give as much detail as possible on the two methods of reproduction in yeast.

10. Where are blue-green algae found?
11. How do blue-green algae get its food?
12. Name one of the ways blue-green algae is being used today.
13. What are Koch’s four postulates?
14. What is the difference between an exotoxin and an endotoxin?
15. What is virulence factor?
16. What are the four forces? Describe each.
17. Draw and label a eukaryotic cell.
18. What makes carnivorous plants unique?
19. What is a red bulls eye rash a sign of?
20. How is Lyme disease most often transmitted?
21. How is Lyme disease most often treated?