A tour of the bacterial world

Question 1

The genus is written with lowercase letters and the species is written with capital letters. True or false?

Answer 1

False - Genus - capital, species - lower

Question 2

Which four bacteria are gram positive rods?

Answer 2

Bacillus
Clostridium
Listeria
Corynebacterium

Question 3

Are bacillus aerobic or anaerobic?

Answer 3

Aerobic

Question 4

Are clostridium aerobic or anaerobic?

Answer 4

Anaerobic

Question 5

Are corynebacterium aerobic or anaerobic?

Answer 5

Aerobic

Question 6

Which bacteria are gram positive cocci?

Answer 6

Staphylococcus

Streptococcus

Question 7

Staph and Strep are facultative aerobes. True or false?

Answer 7

Facultative anaerobes

Question 8

Which bacteria are gram negative rods?

Answer 8

Escherichia

Pseudomonas

Question 9

Escherichia are facultative aerobes. True or false?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Pseudomonas are very antibiotic resistant. True or false?

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Are pseudomonas aerobic or anaerobic?

Answer 11

Aerobic

Question 12

Which three bacteria are neither gram positive or negative?

Answer 12

Mycoplasmas
Mycobacteria
Obligate intracellular bacteria

Question 13

Chlamydia are obligately intracellular bacteria. True or false?

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Which bacteria is gram negative cocci?

Answer 14

Neisseria

Question 15

Neisseria are facultative anaerobes. True or false?

Answer 15

True