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Week 5 – Review Sheet
Exercise 1: Moist and dry
heat
1. How are
microorganisms destroyed by moist heat? By dry heat?
2. Are some
microorganisms more resistant to heat than others? Why?
3. Is moist heat more
effective than dry heat? Why?
4. Why does dry heat
require higher temperatures for longer time periods to sterilize than does
moist heat?
5. What is the
relationship of time to temperature in heat sterilization? Explain.
Exercise 2: The autoclave
1. Define the principles of
sterilization with an autoclave and with a dry heat oven.
2. What pressure,
temperature, and time are used in routine autoclaving?
3. What factors determine
the time period necessary for steam-pressure sterilization? Dry-heat oven
sterilization?
4. Why is it necessary to
use bacteriologic controls to monitor heat- sterilization techniques?
5. When running an
endospore control of autoclaving technique, why is one endospore preparation
incubated without heating?
