Proteins are inorganic nutrients

Plasmids are small, circular pieces of DNA

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.

Anaerobes  lack the metabolic enzyme systems for using oxygen inrespiration

Diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane is called _____.

Anaerobes  lack the metabolic enzyme systems for using oxygen inrespiration

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

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