Microbiology

Question 1

Aerobic

Answer 1

Requiring oxygen for growth

Question 2

Anaerobic

Answer 2

Growing in the absence of oxygen

Question 3

Antibiotic susceptibility testing

Answer 3

Determining the susceptibility of bacteria to specific antibiotics

Question 4

Bacillus

Answer 4

A rod shaped bacterium

Question 5

Coccus

Answer 5

A spherical bacterium

Question 6

Colony

Answer 6

A defined mass of bacteria assumed to have grown from a single organism

Question 7

Communicable

Answer 7

Able to be transmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another

Question 8

Culture

Answer 8

Growth of microorganisms in a special;

the process of growing microorganisms in the laboratory

Question 9

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

Answer 9

The nucleic acid that carries genetic information and is found primary in the nucleus if all living things

Question 10

Fastidious bacteria

Answer 10

Bacteria that require special nutritional factors to survive

Question 11

Fission

Answer 11

Reproductive process in which the parent cell divides into two identical independent cells

Question 11

Fission

Answer 11

Reproductive process in which the parent cell divides into two identical independent cells

Question 12

Gram negative

Answer 12

DEsignation for bacteria that lose the crystal violet (purple) stain and retain the safranin (red) stain in the Gram stain procedure

Question 13

Gram stain

Answer 13

A differential stain used to classify bacteria

Question 14

Host

Answer 14

The organism from which a parasite obtains nutrients and in which some or part of the parasite’s life cycle is completed

Question 15

Hyphae

Answer 15

Filaments of a fungus that make up the mycelium

Question 16

Immunoassay

Answer 16

A diagnostic method using antigen-antibody reactions

Question 17

Infection

Answer 17

A pathological condition caused by growth of microorganisms in the host

Question 18

Medium

Answer 18

A substance used to provide nutrients for growing microoganism

Question 19

Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)

Answer 19

Minimum concentration of an antibiotic required to inhibit the growth of a microoraganism

Question 20

Mycelium

Answer 20

Mass of hyphae that makes up the vegetative body of a fungus

Question 21

Mycosis

Answer 21

Infection caused by fungus

Question 22

Normal flora

Answer 22

Microorganisms normally present at a specific body site and that do not cause disease in healthy individuals

Question 23

Opportunistic pathogen

Answer 23

A microorganism that causes disease only when the host’s normal defense mechanisms are impaired or absent

Question 24

Pathogen

Answer 24

An organism or agent capable or causing disease in a host

Question 25

Progeny

Answer 25

Offspring or descendants

Question 26

Ribonucleic acid (RNA)

Answer 26

The nucleic acid that is important in protein synthesis and is found in all living cells

Question 27

Spiral bacteria

Answer 27

Motile bacteria having a helical or sprial shape