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Microbiology - Chapter 8

Questions: 28 | Attempts: 48

Sample Question
The synthesis of DNA, in which small nucleotides are joined together to make a single large molecule would be most correctly described as being a/n ________ reaction.

Metabolic

Anabolic

Catabolic

Cytobolic

Microbiology Quiz 2 - Chapter 5

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 77

Sample Question
The eukaryotic cell organelle that most resembles a bacterial cell is the

Nucleus

Golgi apparatus

Mitochondria

Lysosome

Ribosome

Microbiology Quiz 2 - Chapter 4

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 82

Sample Question
The two functions of bacterial appendages are

Attachment and protection

Attachment and motility

Motility and slime production

Energy reactions and synthesis

Protection and motility

Microbiology Quiz1

Questions: 63 | Attempts: 17

Sample Question
When humans manipulate the genes of microorganisms the process is called:

A. Bioremediation

B. Genetic engineering

C. Epidemiology

D. Immunology

E. Taxonomy

Medical Microbiology

Questions: 55 | Attempts: 16

Sample Question
What word describes a mutually beneficial relationship?

Saprophytic

Commensal

Symbiotic

Pathogenic

Chapter 38 Microbiology

Questions: 75 | Attempts: 58

Sample Question
The exotoxin produced by Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Causes an inflammatory response.

causes the formation of a pseudomembrane on the respiratory mucosa. 

May destroy cardiac and kidney tissue.

All of the choices

Chapter 37 Microbiology

Questions: 59 | Attempts: 29

Sample Question
In influenza virus, antigenic shift

Results from reassortment of genomes when two different strains of flu viruses infect the same cell.

Results from the accumulation of mutations in HA and NA in a single strain of flu virus.  

can result in major epidemics or pandemics.  

Results from reassortment of genomes when two different strains of flu viruses infect the same cell and can result in major epidemics or pandemics.

Chapter 36 Microbiology

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 61

Sample Question
When a disease maintains a relatively steady, low-level frequency at a moderately regular interval, it is called

Sporadic

Hyperendemic

Endemic

An epidemic.

Chapter 25 Microbiology

Questions: 63 | Attempts: 84

Sample Question
Virus morphology does not include which of the following characteristics?

Size

Shape

presence or absence of an envelope

Host range

Chapter 12 Microbiology

Questions: 76 | Attempts: 63

Sample Question
Which of the following individuals or groups of individuals demonstrated that the transforming principle was DNA?

Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty

Griffith

Hershey and Chase

Watson and Crick

Microbiology & Parasitology

Registry study questions

Questions: 26 | Attempts: 22

Sample Question
Proper media for culture of a urethral discharge from a man include:

Sheep blood and phenylethyl alcohol agars

Eosin-methylene blue and sheep blood agars

Thioglycollate broth and chocolate agar

Chocolate and modified Thayer-Martin agars

Microbiology 1

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 27

Sample Question
Which of the following terms describes organisms that thrive in the cold?

Mesophiles

Thermophiles

Psychrophiles

Aerophiles

Microbiology Final Pt.4

Questions: 39 | Attempts: 50

Sample Question
Which type(s) of antigen-presenting cell can activate T cells?

Macrophages

B cells

Dendritic cells

All of the choices

Microbiology Final

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 8

Sample Question
- intracellular pathogen -rocky mt spotted fever -ticks -myalgia, fever, rash at ankles wrists trunk

Neiserria gonorrhea

Rickttsia rickettsii

Fusobacterium

Microbiology Final Pt.3

Questions: 48 | Attempts: 8

Sample Question
About viruses, it is not true to say that:

Capsids are made of proteins

Viruses are intracellular parasites

Viruses without an envelope are called naked

Viruses are able to metabolize their protein

A viral genom may consist of RNA or DNA

Microbiology Final Pt.2

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 10

Sample Question
Regarding genetic variation in bacteria nad archaea, the only process that requires cell-tocell contact is

Transduction

Trasnformation

Translation

Conjugation

Microbiology Lecture 1

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 7

Sample Question
Staphylococcus aureus causes:

Tonsillitis, cellulitis, scarlet fever, septicaemia

Boils, septicaemia, food poisoning, wound infections

Pneumonia., otitis media, meningitis

Microbiology Cestodes

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 9

Sample Question
True of Taenia saginata except:

5-10 meters

Large scolex, quadrate, no rostellum and hooks

1,000 to 2,000 proglottids

Expelled singly and may be forced through the anal sphincter

Highly branched with 15-30 lateral branches on each side; thin; dichotomous UTERUS

TESTES: 150-200 follicles

Microbiology Intestinal Fluke

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 8

Sample Question
Drug of choice for Intestinal Fluke

Praziquantel

Mebendazole

Metronidazole

Amphoteric B

Mbio Exam 3

Questions: 44 | Attempts: 32

Sample Question
What is the body's defenses against pathogens which are present at birth?

Immunity

Innate (nonspecific) immunity

Normal Flora

Cellular defenses

Microbio Exam III

Chapter 24- Digestive Infections Chapter 25- Urogenital Infections Chapter 26- Nervous System Infections

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 12

Sample Question
Upper Disgestive System Organs

Pancreas

Oral Cavity

Liver

Gallbladder

Salivary Glands

Esophagus

Stomach

Large Intestine

Small Intestine

Appendix

History Of Microbiology And Methods In Microbiology

For University of Exeter, BIO 1330 Bacteriology

Questions: 13 | Attempts: 37

Sample Question
Who was against the idea of Spontaneous Generation?

Francesco Redi

Aristotle

Louis Pasteur

John Needham

Lazzaro Spallazani

Microbiology Final

Questions: 310 | Attempts: 22

Sample Question
If one person in a family has meningitis caused by S. pneumoniae, you treat the whole family

True

False

Micro Test 4

Microbiology Test 4

Questions: 193 | Attempts: 20

Sample Question
A reaction using red blood cells as the indicator and hemolysis indicates an antigen-antibody reaction is called

Agglutination reaction

Complement Fixation

Immunofluorescence

Neutralization reaction

Precipitation reaction

Microbiology Test #4-Chapter 11,12,13-bideshi @cbu

MICROBIOLOGY Test #4, SYMPTOMS NAME ORGANISM TREATMENT PREVELANCE

Questions: 152 | Attempts: 20

Sample Question
What is known as the "Clap"?

Treponema Pallidum

Klebsiella granulomatis

Chlamydia trachomatis

Neisseria gonorrhea

Microbiology Test

Please note! Barbara McClintock worked on TRANSPOSONS, not operons. That was an mistake in the first version. Another mistake is in the old question 5: Both Gram pos and neg bacterial have peptodiglycan polymers made up of...

Questions: 34 | Attempts: 101

Sample Question
Who discovered that cowpox was an effective alternative to variolation?

Walter Reed

Semmelweis

Snow

Jenner

Microbiology

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 21

Sample Question
The following are physical methods of sterilization except:

Incineration

Dry heat

Steam under pressure

Ultraviolet radiation

Microbiology Exam V - Summer 2011

Questions: 153 | Attempts: 69

Sample Question
Neonatal meningitis is most commonly transmitted by

Breast feeding

Hospital personnel

Transplacental infection

Exposure in birth canal

Exposure from other infants

Lecture Final Exam In Microbiology

Students present a PowerPoint presentation with 10 questions. Some of the questions will be selected to be used on the final exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 19

Sample Question
What virus is responsibe for Shingles?

Varicellaovirus

Rhino Virus

Hantavirus

Coronavirus

Microbiology Unit 2 Test 1

Enzymes

Questions: 21 | Attempts: 10

Sample Question
Two types of chemical reactions?

Anabolism

Fermentation

Catabolism

Microbiology 1

Unit 1

Questions: 21 | Attempts: 11

Sample Question
What is Inoculation?

Produces a culture by creating the proper growth temperature.

Staining and observiing colonies to see what is responsible for the infection.

Taking a specimen and transferring the organism onto a plate (petri dish, blood bottle).

Microbiology: Chapter 8

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 37

Sample Question
Which of these are reasons to control microbial growth? (Choose all that apply)

Prevention and treatment of infection

Prevention of infection

Is a form of secondary prevention

Prevention of food spoilage

Microbiology: Chapter 9

Questions: 21 | Attempts: 34

Sample Question
What is the correct direction from which information flows?

RNA>Proteins>DNA

DNA>Proteins>RNA

DNA>RNA>Proteins

RNA>DNA>Proteins

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