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What bacteria is an intoxication and caused by anaerobic bacteria?
Botulism is a type of bacterial intoxication caused by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The bacteria produce a potent neurotoxin that can cause paralysis and other serious symptoms when ingested. Proper food preparation and storage can help prevent botulism.
What is botulism what it causes?
Botulism is a type of food poisoning. What causes it is the bacteria living on our food that produce toxins that can kill humans.
Why are botulism bacteria sometimes able to produce toxins when they have been heated?
Because when the heat hits the botulism it turn into toxins to form health.
What virus infect bacteria?
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria. These viruses inject their genetic material into a bacterium, which then uses the bacterium's machinery to produce more phages. This eventually leads to the lysis of the bacterium and release of new phages to infect other bacteria.
What bacteria produce toxin that can cause tetanus?
The bacterium which produces the toxin that causes tetanus is Clostridium tetani.
What is the most likely cause of botulism?
Botulism results from the contamination of food by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, which releases toxic by-products as it grows anaerobically. Damaged or dented cans, or improper canning, can allow botulism to affect the food inside.
What organism produces disease?
bacterium Not all bacteria produce disease, viruses do too. It would be called a pathogen.
Can botulism grow in cream cheese that is unopened?
Of course! Despite the best (or typical) practices of any producer of food, any product can become contaminated. If cream cheese is contaminated with the bacteria that produce botulism, they will most likely grow, especially as the cream cheese is wrapped in a foil type material that excludes air. (Botulism bacteria are anaerobic, meaning they grow without air / oxygen.)
How does a strictly fermentative bacterium produce energy?
A strictly fermentative bacterium produces energy through glycolysis, which breaks down glucose into pyruvate. ATP is generated as a result of this process. Since these bacteria do not have an electron transport chain, they do not produce ATP through oxidative phosphorylation.
Ecoli bacteria can cause food spoilage and food poisoning one ecoli bacterium can reproduce and become 2 in 20 min how many bacteria will be produce in 1 hour in 2 hour in 24 hours from a single bacte?
1 hour = 2^3 = 8 2 hours = 2^6 = 64 24 hours = 2^72 =4,722,366,482,869,650,000,000
The type of recombinant bacteria most often used to mass produce genes is?
I know of one commonly used bacteria: E. Coli
What are 5 anaerobic organisms that do not use oxygen to respire?
Clostridium botulinum: a bacterium that causes botulism. Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a yeast used in bread making and brewing. Lactobacillus: a bacteria used in the fermentation of foods like yogurt. Methanogens: a group of archaea that produce methane as a byproduct of their metabolism. Ferrobacillus: a type of bacterium that can use iron as an electron donor in respiration.
