Questions based on chapter 1 of Microbiology an introduction and on the teacher's document with the learning objectives.
Microbes help maintain a balance between living organisms and the environment
Microbes can be used commercially
Microbes are absent from animal's and human's instestines
Only a small portion is pathogenic
True
False
Protists, bacteria, archaea, eukarya
Protists, fungi, plants, bacteria
Bacteria, eukarya, plants
Bacteria, archaea, eukarya
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcus equinus
FIV
Helminths
Bacillus megaterium
Amoebas
Penicillium chrysogenum
Salmonella typhimurium
Methanogens
Staphylococcus epidermis
True
False
A specific microbe caused a specific disease
Applying the germ theory of disease to medical procedures
Microorganisms called yeasts convert the sugars to alcohol in the absence of air
True
False
Smallpox is used to treat cowpox
Some vaccines are produced from avirulent microbial strains that stimulate immunity to the related virulent strain
Vaccines can't be made from killed virulent microbes
Pasteur used the term vaccine for cultures of virulent microorganisms used for preventive inoculation
Paul Ehrlich, speculator of the ''magic bullet', discovered salvarsan, an asernic derivative effective against malaria, which is why it was given that name
Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic
Microorganisms help recycle vital elements between the soil and atmosphere
Fragments of human or animal DNA that code for important proteins can be attached to viral DNA or RNA
Microorganisms can be genetically modified to manufacture large amounts of urgently needed medical substances
Gene therapy is a biotechnology example that uses recombinant DNA technology
Microorganisms are not used as pest control
A biofilm is a complex aggregation of microbes
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