1. Any calculations? Maybe
2. Memorizing formula? No.
3. Required reading -- in the exam? Included, and may appear.
4. Duration of diseases need to memorize? Only the range. Incubation period is more important.
5. Q10? Lowering temperature lowering growth rate
6. Aerobic vs anaerobic respiration vs fermentation? Having external electron acceptor to accept electron or not. Aerobic--oxygen, anaerobic--other electron acceptors, e.g. nitrate, TMAO
7. Fermentation --meaning? Biochemical/physiological meaning --no oxygen or other external electron acceptors. Industrial production--any process using microbes to produce materials is usually called fermentation.
8. pH effect vs temperature effect on microbes--killing or not?
pH--acid/alkaline, i.e. chemical, temperature--physical. Think about it.
9. 1999 exam case discussed. Students satisfied. Notes about the question posted on blog.
10. Non-culturable V. cholera--remember that it refers to the culturing V. c. from winterized food items such as oysters.
11. About answering questions: you can use any format, e.g., flow chart, table, or passage, to answer your questions, as long as your answers are clear, precise and concise. To the point, please.
2012 questions:
12. Fermentation processes, e.g., beer production will be included in exam paper? ###Yes. What have been taught, especially in class, will be examined.
13. Notes and lecture: when a topic is covered in lecture, the related materials in the notes may be asked in the examination.
14. Norovirus: will it be covered in the examination? Yes....it was the most common foodborne viral disease in the past year.
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