Microbiology Quiz Chapter 1
Questions based on chapter 1 of Microbiology an introduction and on the teacher's document with the learning objectives.
- 1.Every affirmation is true except:
- A.
Microbes help maintain a balance between living organisms and the environment
- B.
Microbes can be used commercially
- C.
Microbes are absent from animal's and human's instestines
- D.
Only a small portion is pathogenic
- 2.Hooke's discovery concerning life's smallest structural units marked the beginning of the cell theory.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.What are the main domains?
- A.
Protists, bacteria, archaea, eukarya
- B.
Protists, fungi, plants, bacteria
- C.
Bacteria, eukarya, plants
- D.
Bacteria, archaea, eukarya
- 4.____ and _____ are prokaryotic microorganisms.Please fill answer below
- 5.Viruses can only be seen with an _____________.Please fill answer below
- 6.The following are all bacteria except:
- A.
Staphylococcus aureus
- B.
Streptococcus equinus
- C.
FIV
- D.
Helminths
- E.
Bacillus megaterium
- F.
Amoebas
- G.
Penicillium chrysogenum
- H.
Salmonella typhimurium
- I.
Methanogens
- J.
Staphylococcus epidermis
- 7.Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms are present in the air and can contaminate sterile solutions, and that air itself can create microbes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Pasteur influenced Joseph Lister and Robert Koch's works. Which one was not contributed by the two of them?
- A.
A specific microbe caused a specific disease
- B.
Applying the germ theory of disease to medical procedures
- C.
Microorganisms called yeasts convert the sugars to alcohol in the absence of air
- 9.Edward Jenner helped Koch discover the idea of _____. It is ____ that later discovered how they were working.
- 10.An emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is a new or changing disease that is increasing or has the potential to increase in incidence in the near future.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.All are false except for one:
- A.
Smallpox is used to treat cowpox
- B.
Some vaccines are produced from avirulent microbial strains that stimulate immunity to the related virulent strain
- C.
Vaccines can't be made from killed virulent microbes
- D.
Pasteur used the term vaccine for cultures of virulent microorganisms used for preventive inoculation
- 12.Find the ones that are true
- A.
Paul Ehrlich, speculator of the ''magic bullet', discovered salvarsan, an asernic derivative effective against malaria, which is why it was given that name
- B.
Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic
- C.
Microorganisms help recycle vital elements between the soil and atmosphere
- D.
Fragments of human or animal DNA that code for important proteins can be attached to viral DNA or RNA
- E.
Microorganisms can be genetically modified to manufacture large amounts of urgently needed medical substances
- F.
Gene therapy is a biotechnology example that uses recombinant DNA technology
- G.
Microorganisms are not used as pest control
- H.
A biofilm is a complex aggregation of microbes
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