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Enzyme responsible for DNA synthesis in cells?
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DNA dependent DNA polymerase
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Which of the follow recombination scenarious required cell to cell contact?
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Conjugation
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The Ame's Test is used to identify?
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Chemical mutagens and potential carcinogens
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Transduction is defined as the transfer of?
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DNA from a donor to a recipient cell by a bacteriophage
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Which of the following infections in the transformation experiment produced unexpected results?
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Living non encapsulated bacteria plus heat killed encapsulated bacteria
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In transformation experiment?
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Cells pick up fragments of DNA from the environment
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The term mating bridge is associated with what?
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Conjugation
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True of False, All viruses have an envelope?
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False
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CPE is best described as what?
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Cell rounding and detachment from monolayer
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Bacteria virus from _____ on a lawn of cells?
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Plaques
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Which of the following steps occurs simulataneously with bacterial virus penetration?
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Uncoating
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During the uncoating step in animal virus multiplication?
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The viral envelop or capsid is removed
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True or false, assembly of virus nucleocapsids occur in the cytoplasm?
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False
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All RNA animal viruses except influenza virus?
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Multiply in the cytoplasm of a cell
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Whcih of the following steps in replication of a retrovirus is under the control of the host cell?
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Transcription of the provirus DNA
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RNA viruses require the enzyme _____ to replicate their genome?
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RNA dependent RNA polymerase
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A Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed?
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Parasitiam
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The faction of a population that has a disease ( includes old and new cases) is known as the what?
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Prevalence
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According to its severity or duration, Tuberculosis and infection mononucleosis are classified as _____ diseases?
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Chronic
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The acute stage of an illness appears when?
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Inate resistance fails
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A patient is infected with hepatitis B by a contaminated thermometer is an example of what kind of transmission?
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Indirect Transmission
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An individual contracts influenze when his lab partnre sneezes in his face. The type of tranmission is what?
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Droplet
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An individual contracts Hapatitis A as a result of flies landing in his food. This types of transmission is what?
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Vector
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The reservior for tetanus is what?
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Soil
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The highest relative frequency of hospital acquired infection in adults is where in the human body?
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Urinary tract
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The morbidity rate is best defined as what?
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The number of individuals, relative to the population affected by a particular disease in a pariod of time
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Ignanz Semmelweis?
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Showed the hand washing decreased the incidence of puerperal fever
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The portal most traveled by infectious agents is what?
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Mucous membrane
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What infection can enter and infect the mucous membranes of respiratory tract, skin, and gastrointestinal tract?
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Bacillus anthracis
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Phagocytes are able to attach to most bacteris during the inate immune response because phagocytes have receptors for what?
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Mannose
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Which of the following is not an effect of complement activation?
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Extracullular killing of large parasites
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Monocytes leave the blood and enter tissue to become what?
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Macrophages
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Activated complement component which enhances phagocytosis is what?
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C3bb
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True or False, interferon stops viral replication in the virus infected host cell
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False
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Second line of defense specific for viruses?
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Alpha and Beta Interferon
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Phagocytic granulocyte?
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Neutrophile
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Term for any chemical or physical agents that cause changes in the gentic information of a cell?
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Mutagen
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TYerm for retrovirus dsDNA inegrated in a cell chromosome?
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Provirus
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Growth of bacteria in the blood?
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Septiciema
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Term for continual source of infection?
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Reservior
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State the full name of the CDC publication that reports on disease in the United States?
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Live Microorganisms applied or ingested into the body, intended to exert a beneficial effect
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Probiotiv
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Syndrome?
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Specific Signs and symptoms associated with a disease
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Nonsocomial?
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Hospital acquired disease
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Virion?
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Fully intact virus
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Gene?
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Segement of DNA that codes for usually proteins
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Fomite?
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Inanimate object used in indirect transmission of a disease
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What are the five steps in the multiplication cycle of a virus?
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1) attachment 2) penetration/uncoating 3) biosynthesis 4) maturation 5) release
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Three major factors which contribute to nonsocomial infection?
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1) compromised immunity of a host 2) abuse of antiobiotic caused resistance in the disease 3) manyw ays to spread via doctor, nurses, and aids
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Three major factors which contribute to emerging infectious diseases?
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1) poverty 2) wheather 3) modern transportation
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Four second lines of non specific dense?
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1) Inflamation 2) fever 3) Complement 4) NK cells
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All of the following are used to group viruses into families except:
A) Disease Caused B) Type of Nucleic Acid C) Presence of Envelope D) Capsid Structure E) Strategy of Replication |
A
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Animal Viruses
A) Attach to the cell wall B) use lysozyme in both the penetration and release phase of growth C) Multiply in either the nucleus or cytoplasm of the host cell D) lyse the infected cell to relese |
B
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Which of following adhesions is used by E.Coli to adhere to membranes
A) Fimbriae B) M Protein C) Opa Protein D) Glycocalyx |
A
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Which of the following Toxin Properties would you associate with endotoxins?
A) Forms protein channels in the plasma membrane B) Causes an intense immune response from release of Cytotkines C) Tumor Necrosis factor Allpha and IL-1 B) AB toxins |
C
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From which of the following is considered a chemical fist line of defense:
A) Intact Skin B) Saliva C) Inflammation D) Gastric Juice E) Lacrimal apparatus |
D
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From which of the following toxins is part of the cell wall
A) Superantigen B) Membrane Distrupting C) A-B Toxins D) Endotoxin |
C
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The Study of Cause of disease?
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Etiology
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The Study of where, when, and how a disease is transmitted?
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Epidemiology
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Explain how inflammation and fever are beneficial ifection?
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