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A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The organism’s metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab. The organism is found to grow throughout the entire tube of broth media in areas with AND without oxygen. Which of the following terms best describes the oxygen requirement of this organism? 

Proteins are inorganic nutrients

Resistance (R) plasmids or factors do not contain genes for antibiotic resistance

A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The organism’s metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab. The organism is found to grow throughout the entire tube of broth media in areas with AND without oxygen. Which of the following terms best describes the oxygen requirement of this organism? 

Proteins are inorganic nutrients

Each _______ is a specific segment of the DNA with the code for production of one functional product.

The term photoheterotroph refers to an organism that  gets energy from sunlight

Diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane is called _____.

Inorganic nutrients contain carbon and hydrogen atoms and are usually the products of living things

The E. coli that normally live in the human large intestines and produce vitamin K for the body to use would best be termed a _______ relationship.