Packet 7: Bonus 11

Organisms that are negative under this procedure often have a second outer membrane with embedded lipopolysaccharides. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this procedure that sorts bacteria by the thickness of their cell walls.
ANSWER: Gram staining
[10m] This primary dye used in Gram staining is taken up and retained by peptidoglycan during decolorization.
ANSWER: crystal violet [or gentian violet or methyl violet 10B or hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride]
[10h] This filamentous bacterium, which is either gram-intermediate or gram-positive, forms misleadingly-named sulfur granules in craniofacial infections. It is distinguished from Nocardia by not being acid-fast.
ANSWER: Actinomyces israelii [or A. israelii]
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BrownChicago B1010020EM
CornellNorthwestern B100010E
HarvardVirginia Tech1010020EM
Illinois AToronto B10101030EMH
IndianaColumbia A1010020EM
Johns HopkinsBruin1010020EM
MITBritish Columbia1010020EM
Maryland AUC Berkeley B1010020EM
Maryland BIllinois B1010020EM
MichiganGeorgia Tech B1010020EM
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech C1010020EM
North CarolinaGeorgetown100010E
Ohio StatePenn State1010020EM
PittsburghVanderbilt0000
RutgersColumbia B1010020EM
Stanford ANYU A100010E
Stanford BNYU B0000
SwarthmorePurdue100010E
TexasUCLA1010020EM
Toronto ANorthwestern A1010020EM
UC Berkeley AChicago A1010020EM
VirginiaGeorgia Tech A100010E
WashUCambridge1010020EM
WaterlooUCF100010E

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