The image included is a fungus enhancing the capacity of the tree roots to collect minerals, nutrients, and water from the soil, while the tree provides food for the fungus.  This mutualistic relationship between the fungus and the tree is called a _________.

What is the structural polysaccharide found in fungi and arthropods?

Which element forms the backbone of most biological molecules?

What is the structural polysaccharide found in fungi and arthropods?

Which type of fat has no double bonds and is solid at room temperature?

The model organism Escherichia coli is growing in a nutrient rich environment. If glucose is depleted, what would be the first response of Escherichia coli to the change in the environment?

A patient has a catheter in his urinary tract. The catheter becomes colonized with bacteria and a biofilm forms. What triggered biofilm formation?

The model organism Escherichia coli is growing in a nutrient rich environment. If glucose is depleted, what would be the first response of Escherichia coli to the change in the environment?

A mouse raised in a germ free environment completely lacks any “normal microbiota” or bacterial community. Aside from stimulation of the immune system, how would this affect the mouse’s ability to resist disease-causing organisms:

If bacterial cells are exposed to an antibiotic for the first time, they will: