When a bacteriophage acts as a carrier of DNA from a donor cell to a recipient cell and highly specific parts of host genome are regularly incorporated into the new phages, this recombination event is ____.

Thermal death time is the longest length of time required to kill all test microbes at a specified temperature.

The phase during the growth phases of bacteria in which the bacteria exhibit a plateau in growth is the _____.

A zoonotic disease is a disease arising from ____.

Most microbes tend to be alkalinophiles functioning at a pH of 7.

Triclosan is found in a majority of antibacterial handsoaps.

Virulence is ____.

Fungi may be beneficial or harmful.

Which antibiotic on the Kirby-Bauer Assay would be most effective?

Most microbes tend to be alkalinophiles functioning at a pH of 7.