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Gram positive bacteria

1. E.coli
2. Lactobacillus sp.
3. Pseudomonas sp.
4. All of the these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which disease is caused by bacteria?

1. Tuberculosis
2. Cancer
3. Ringworm
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Microbiology is the study of

1. small animals
2. microscopic organisms
3. diseases
4. health

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Gram staining is an example of

1. Acid fast staining
2. Simple staining
3. Negative staining
4. Differential staining

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of these is responsible for catalyzing the formation of an rna primer?

1. enzyme
2. Primase
3. Formulation
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How do viruses reproduce

1. They take over the living cells machinery
2. They slide in the cell on their own
3. They can reproduce themselves
4. They put themselves in our bloodstream first

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Expand MMR

1. Measles Mumps Rubella
2. Malaria malaria rhehasus
3. Monkey Month Resists
4. Mango mangi red

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The bacterium that is most commonly used in genetic engineering is

1. E.coli
2. Klebsiella
3. Bacillus substilus
4. Staphylococcus auerus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is ring worm caused by?

1. Virus
2. Bacteria
3. Fungi
4. Parasite

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Most bacteria are

1. Harmful
2. Helpful
3. Begnin
4. Cancer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In electron microscope, what material is used as an objective lens?

1. Magnetic coils
2. Superfine glass
3. Electrons
4. Aluminium foils

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the backbone of DNA made of?

1. Glucose and Nitrogen
2. Deoxyribose and Nitrogen
3. Deoxyribose and Phosphate
4. Deoxyribose and Sulfate

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Aeromicrobiology refers to

1. Study of living microbes
2. study of Algae
3. Study of living microbes which are suspended in the air
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why is Taq used in PCR?

1. It is a specific DNA Primer
2. It is a heat stable polymerase
3. It is specific to the target probe
4. It does not need a cofactor

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is RFLP used for?

1. Detecting PCR products
2. Amplify nucleic acids
3. Used for Eastern blot
4. Used for Eastern blot

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How large are viruses ?

1. 100-150 nm
2. 300-600nm
3. 20-200 nm
4. 10-100nm

✅ Correct Answer: 3

. What types of cells can Viruses infect

1. Only bacterial cells
2. Only animal cells
3. Only prokaryotic
4. ones all of them

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Organisms referred to by both genus and specific epithet are both either:

1. underlined
2. italicized
3. bolded
4. Both A & B

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Prokaryotes lack:

1. nucleus
2. flagella
3. cilia
4. cell wall

✅ Correct Answer: 1

___________ is the scientist who invented the system of nomenclature for microbes in use today.

1. Robert Hooke
2. Francesco Redi
3. Carolus Linnaeus
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A tapeworm lives in the intestines of its host. Which example best describes the relationship between the tapeworm and its host?

1. The tapeworm benefits from its host; however, the host is not affected.
2. The tapeworm does not benefit from its host, but the host does benefit.
3. The tapeworm benefits from its host, and the host is negatively affected.
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

An organism that lives on or in a host, and causes it harm while it takes its nutrients is called

1. a host
2. a parasite
3. a cell
4. a virus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Viruses multiply:

1. By conjungation
2. By taking over a cell's functions
3. By binary fission
4. Both sexually and asexually

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Immunology is the study of...

1. the immune system
2. bacteria
3. viruses
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Phycology is the study of...

1. fish
2. fungi
3. bacteria
4. algae

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Mycology is the study of....

1. fungi
2. bacteria
3. viruses
4. dogs

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When a virus invades a living cell, its _______takes over the cell's functions.

1. outer coat
2. genetic material
3. core
4. cytoplasm

✅ Correct Answer: 2

______________ are classified by their shape.

1. Bacteria
2. Flagella
3. Protists
4. Paramecium

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Regarding exotoxins, which of the following is incorrect:

1. Can cause tetanus, diphtheria, and botulism
2. Vaccines are available
3. No Vaccines are available
4. They are heat sensitive

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which mechanism(s) allow microbes to avoid host defenses?

1. Creation of an actin tail to propel bacterium
2. Production of IgT proteases
3. Replication
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The most common way(s) for microbes to breach anatomical barriers are through:

1. Cuts and Wounds
2. Insects
3. Mucous Membranes
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

____ indicates viral particles are circulating in the bloodstream.

1. Viremia
2. Toxemia
3. IDKremia
4. Bacteremia

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The duration of symptoms for Tuberculosis (TB) can be described as:

1. Acute
2. Chronic
3. Latent
4. Chronic and/or Latent

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Although many individuals contributed, Louis Pasteur is often given credit for formation of which theory?

1. Miasma
2. Spontaneous Generation
3. Causation
4. Germ

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following modes of transmission were discussed in class?

1. ingestion
2. airborne
3. vector
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

This companies headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.

1. WHO
2. CDC
3. BLHS
4. AARP

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Any disorder that produces symptoms in specific locations that aren't a result of physical injury defines which term?

1. pathogen
2. disease
3. virulence
4. vector

✅ Correct Answer: 2

This individual determined the causative agent of cholera.

1. John Snow
2. Louis Pasteur
3. Alexander Fleming
4. Robert Koch

✅ Correct Answer: 4

This individual determined the causative agent of cholera.

1. John Snow
2. Louis Pasteur
3. Alexander Fleming
4. Robert Koch

✅ Correct Answer: 4

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