This 100-item multiple choice examination covers the basics of Microbiology. Included are some topics in Parasitology, Serology, and Immunology. You may answer this test for only 63 minutes. Please enter your first and last names in the field. Multiple attempts are allowed, just key in your name at every attempt.
Fungus
Virus
Protozoan
Arthropod
Helminth
Simple stain
Mordant
Counterstain
Decolorizer
None of the above
Decolorizer
Primary stain
Mordant
Secondary stain
None of the above
Dorner's stain
Gram's iodine
Nigrosin
Levaditi silver impregnation
Fulton-Schaffer's staining method
Made a mistake in staining.
Two different species.
Old bacterial cells.
Young bacterial cells.
None of the above
Animal cells.
Bacterial cells.
Fungal cells.
Mycoplasma cells.
Plant cells.
Active site.
Allosteric site.
Holoenzyme.
Cofactor
Activator.
Releases energy from sugars or other organic molecules such as amino acids, organic acids, purines, and pyrimidines
Produces a great yield of ATP
Uses an organic molecule as the final electron acceptor.
Does not require the use of the Krebs cycle or an electron transport chain
Does not require oxygen
Lag phase.
Logarithmic phase.
Stationary phase.
Death phase.
None of the above
Plate count
Pour plate and spread plate
Turbidimetric method
Petroff-Hausser cell counter
None of the above
General isolation medium
Reducing medium
Special medium
Selective medium
Differential medium
A 70% isopropyl alcohol solution is a sterilizing agent.
It denatures proteins and damages lipids thus altering membrane permeability.
It kills all forms of microbial life including the endospores.
All of the above
None of the above
Organic acids
Alcohols
Aldehydes
Heavy metals
None of the above
Jumping genes.
Pol gene.
Bacteriophages.
Oncogenes.
All of the above
Phylum
Order
Kingdom
Family
Class
Each name is specific.
Names vary with geographical location.
The names are standardized.
Each name consists of a genus and a specific epithet.
It was first designed by Linnaeus.
Escherichia
Pseudomonas
Campylobacter
Burkholderia
Afipia
Molds
Yeasts
Dimorphic
Coenocytic
Pathologic
Malassezia furfur
Coccidioides immitis
Candida albicans
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Rhizopus
Ciliophora
Mastigophora
Microspora
Euglenozoa
None of the above
Female Aedes mosquito
Female Anopheles mosquito
Female deer mouse
Female Colorado tick
A and B only
The vegetative form of is the cyst.
Protozoans are prokaryotic organisms.
Sexual reproduction is by binary fission.
Asexual reproduction can be achieved through schizogony.
During ciliate conjugation, two haploid nuclei fuse to form a merozoite.
Animal viruses do not undergo uncoating.
Bacteriophages attach to plasma membrane proteins and glycoproteins.
Biosynthesis of bacteriophages can take place in the host cell's DNA or RNA.
Enveloped viruses bud out from its host animal cell.
Lysogenic cycle always ends in the rupture of the host cell.
The host species.
The type of cells.
The availability of an attachment site.
Cell factors necessary for viral replication.
All of the above
Chromobacterium violaceum
Virbio cholerae
Streptococcus pyogenes
Chlamydia trichomatis
Clostridium perfringens