This document discusses several topics related to sterilization techniques including how microbial agents work, thermal death point and time, conditions for autoclaving, the purpose of filters, dry-heat sterilization vs moist heat sterilization and how dry-heat works, examples of desiccated materials, the most resistant microbes, differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, differences between viruses, and bacterial classification.

1. Tutorial 7<br />How do microbial agents work?

2. What is thermal death point, thermal death time?

3. What are the conditions for autoclaving?

4. What is the purpose for of filters?

5. Why do we perform dry-heat sterilization instead of moist heat sterilization? How does dry-heat sterilization works?

6. Give examples of desiccated materials.

7. Who is the most resistant?_____________________________________________________________________________________<br />Differentiate prokaryote and eukaryote.

8. How is a virus different from the other similar virus?

9. How do we classify bacteria?