Chapter 6 Learning Outcomes - Describe the roles of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in microbial growth and reproduction. - Compare four basic categories of organisms based on their carbon and energy sources. - Distinguish among anaerobes, aerobes, aerotolerant anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, and microaerophiles. - Define nitrogen fixation, and explain its importance. - Explain how extremes of temperature, pH, and osmotic pressure limit microbial growth. - Describe biofilm formation. - Describe methods for collecting clinical specimens from the skin, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, stomach, urine, lungs, and diseased tissue. - Describe the two most common methods by which microorganisms can be isolated for culture. - Differentiate between the six types of general culture media available for bacterial culture and explain their purpose in a lab setting. - Contrast refrigeration, deep-freezing, and lyophilization as methods for preserving cultures of microbes. - Describe binary fission as a means ofExplain what is meant by the generation time of bacteria and be able to calculate it. Describe logarithmic growth Be able to draw and label a bacterial growth curve and describe what happens to the population at each phase. - Contrast direct and indirect methods of measuring bacterial reproduction. Be able to calculate microbial population estimates via direct microscopic count, serial dilutions and CFUs, and MPN..