Dichotomous keys can be useful for tracing a route of positive/negative identifiers to a presumptive identification of a microbe.

60) Capillary beds are composed of two types of blood vessels: ________ and ________.

Most sampling methods require aseptic technique and storage in anaerobic containers.

21) Leukemia is usually due to bone marrow cancer, and it creates a higher number of ________ than normal.

Using figure 17.6 in your text, identify the organism that is a non-spore forming, Gram-positive bacillus that can assume multiple shapes.

26) The ________ nervous system signals blood vessels to constrict.

Genotypic methods of analysis include all of the following EXCEPT

25) A substance that decreases the blood’s ability to clot is ________.

29) Which of the following is NOT a white blood cell?

13) Capillary beds are fed by the ________.