Microbiology Test Questions

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Leprosy is a disease caused by

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Bacteria

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an animal commonly associated is the armadillo

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Seaweed today is classified in the kindom

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of protista

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these are typically single celled Eukaryotes

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Carl Woese in 1974 came up with what classification

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Eubacteria Archeabacteria and Eucarya

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3 kingdoms

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Q fever is a

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rickettsial disease

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In evolutionary schemes where did mitochondria and chloroplast come from

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process of endosymbiosis

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Muramic acid based cell walls aka
peptidoglycan layers are found in

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all bacteria and gram positive and negative means there are differing amounts of the peptidoglycan layers

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Carl woese

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he decided to split up the bacteria into the 3 eu archea and eukarya

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true for for prokaryotes

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they have an illdefined nuclear region
they lack a nuclear membrane
they reproduce by asexual means
they lack gametes and a zygote

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What is important about Slime MOLDS

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Myxomycota - presently classified as protozoans
Protista
thought fungi
produces spores

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Slime molds have flagellated single cell organisms congregating together

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TRUE

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Plasmodial Slime Molds

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individual flagellated cells swarm together and fuse
one large bag of cytoplasm with many diploid nuclei

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Cellular slime molds

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single celled amoeboid protists release of a chem signal makes them swarm

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labyrinthulomycota

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third group of slime molds

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LVPT

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Lymphogranuloma Venerum Psittacosis and Tracoma

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Parrot fever

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LVPT

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Chlamydia

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they are obligate intracellular parasites
used to be thought of as large parasites aka LVPT now in the energy parasites

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slime molds present as both

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protista and fungi

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animacules is a term from a

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Dutchman Leeuenhoek who wrote 300 letters to private scientists in his native toungue

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epizootic may be described as

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disease an epidemic limited to animals

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epi-upon
zootic - animal

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epizootic

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outbreak of species that Appears as new cases in a given animal population
and the rate exceeds what is expected based on previous ones

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cyanobacteria

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is an early life form that is classified between bacteria and fungi

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cyanobacteria

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blue green algae
unicellular
prokaryotic
oxy photo
possess the Z scheme PI and PII

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cyanobacteria are a life form with classification with/in

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bacteria and algae

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diseases like
Plague
St Louis encephalitis
Lyme Disease

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all are transmitted by insect vector
Fleas
Mosquitos
and Ticks

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Discovery of first chemotherapeutic agent salvarsan that was used to treat syphilis

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Paul Ehrlich also known as compound 606 sleeping sickness

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somewhat of a arsenic sickness

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transitional organisms have phenotypes that allow them to be classified into two taxonomic groups

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euglena
slime molds

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Prokaryotes include

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eubacteria
Archeabacteria
and cyanobacteria

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break down Eubacteria

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Rickettsiae and chlamydia

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mycoplasma

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members are smallest organism lacking cell walls that are capable of self replication and cause various diseases

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infectious parotitis is the name of the irus which causes

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MUMPS

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the most common cause is staph aureus/ and the most common viral cause is....

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Which organisms are known to carry out oxygenic photosyntheis

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PLANTS do
Algae DO
and some bacteria do

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which of the following carbon compounds can be used as growth or energy substrate by autotrophs

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CO2

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mycoplasma are unique procaryotes because they are

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laking a rigisd cell wall
and have L forms that are filterable just like virus'

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the actinomycetes (considered by some to be filamentous bacteria) are a class of microorganisms that have produced many useful antibiotics. they fall somewhere in size and complexity between

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Bacteria and molds
molds cus they have branching filaments

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a thixotrophic compound like agar is useful in microbiology because it

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is a not readily degraded by bacteria
complex polysaccharide
and remaint a solid or liquid at the 40-90c

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a disease that can trasmitt by drinnking an unpasturized cows milk is

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BAAAAANGS Brucella abortus

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Meningitis a disease if referred to HIB

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leading cause of bacterial meningitis

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Klebs Loeffler disease refers to

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diptheria a corynebacterium
aerobic
nonmotile
rodshaped
bacteria
snapping looks like chinese

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Chlamydia is a subclass of bacteria

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large virus
found to be a cellular entity
of ENERGY parasites
could not synthesize high energy compounds

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disease that can transmit from goat's milk

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Brucella melitensis

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Brucellosis affects cows in what manners

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spontaneous abortion and can be transmitted to humans

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varicella

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CHICKEN POX

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Variola

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Smallpox

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German measles

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Rubela

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BACTERIA DO CARRY OUT OXYGENIC OR NON OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS

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YES NON OXYGENIC

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carbon compound used as growth or energy substtrate by autotrophes

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CO2

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Mycoplasma are unique prokaryotes

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have L form that are filterable

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and lack a rigid cell wall

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largest virus Vaccinia and Variola which are

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.25microns

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smallest ones are

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viroids which are small circular single stranded RNA
nad prions
infectious proteins