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groups of microorganisms contains both DNA and RNA?

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Viruses, Viroids, Prions and Lichens

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Who is the Russian scientist who established the characteristics of viruses

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Iwanowsky

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How many bacterial genera belongs to family Enterobacteriaceae?

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8

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Which of the following cannot survive at ph 8.5?

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Acidophiles

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  1. Which of the following is the site of generation of proton motive force?
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  • cytoplasmic membrane
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  1. Which of the following metabolic pathway is used by some microorganisms when acetate is the sole carbon source?
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  • Glyoxylate Cycle
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Which of the following structures external to the bacterial cell wall facilitates nutrient absorption in diluted environment?

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prosthecae

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Which of the following microscopes is not useful in the study of living microorganisms?

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Transmission Electron

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Which of the following media is differential?

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  • Blood Agar
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Which of the following features are produced by or found in gram negative bacteria?

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  • Braun’s lipoprptein
  • periplasm
  • spheroplasts
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major groups of microorganisms is eukaryotic and absorptive

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fungi

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cellular structures contains the unit of hereditary material that contains the informations that determine the characteristics of certain organism?

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chromosome

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term refers to a convenient energy carrier that provides the cell with readily available energy?

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ATP

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Rickettsial disease is transmitted by ticks?

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  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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seen in unaided human eye?

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  • microbial colony
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does not describe Mycoplasmas?

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  • unlimited biosynthetic abilities
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microscopes can examine cells in a living state?

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darkfield

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groups of microorganisms are able to grow in oxygen concentration that is lower than the atmospheric air?

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microaerophiles

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Which of the following is a mollicute?

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Mycoplasma

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  1. Which of the following is anabolic?
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amination

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bacterial genera belongs to Family Rickettsiaceae?

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  • Rickettsia
  • Rochalimaea
  • Coxiella
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phase of bacterial growth occurs when bacterial cells are metabolizing?

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lag phase

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following structures external to the bacterial cell wall are responsible for travelling a helical wave?

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  • axial filaments
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species of genus Vibrio is a pathogen for marine fish and eels?

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  • anguillarum
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How many bacterial families belong to aerobic, gram negative rods and cocci?
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Which major class of enzymes is involved in electron transfer reactions?
Oxidoreductase
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30. Which of the following refers to cysts?
* it can undergo germination under suitable condition * it is metabolically dormant * it develops by differentiation of vegetative cell
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Who recognized the indirect transmission of diseases?
Semmelweis
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Term appropriate when we refer to all organized chemical activities performed by a cell?
metabolism
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genera of Spirosomaceae produces yellow colonies?
spirosoma
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spirochetes affects human beings?
* Leptospira spp Borrelia spp * Treponema spp.
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major groups of microorganisms is prokaryotic?
bacteria
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scientist believed that microorganisms in the air have weight?
Pasteur
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groups of microorganisms are usually harmed by the presence of molecular oxygen?
obligate anaerobes
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bacterial genera is gram negative?
Aeromonas
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features is distinguishing for Spirochetes?
* with periplasmic flagella
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following is achieved when light rays from an illuminator are passed through a condenser?
magnification
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the major groups of microorganisms is neither prokaryotic nor eukaryotic?
virus
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44. Who introduced original canning process
* Francois Appert
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45. Who is the microbiologist who first encountered a problem on spores?
John Tyndall
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a bacterial genus that contains enzymes necessary to use glucose and inorganic salts for the synthesis of all amino acids they need?
Lactobacillus
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terms refers to the ability of the lenses to distinguish fine two points as distinct and separate?
resolution
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major class of enzymes is involved in the formation of bonds with cleavage or breakage of ATP?
Ligase
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major groups of microorganism is eukaryotic and ingestive?
protozoa
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term refers to the light-bending ability of the medium?
reflective index
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features are produced by or found in gram positive bacteria?
* greater amount of peptidoglycan ragmentation Budding * teichoic acid * protoplasts
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introduced asceptic surgery?
Lister
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the following statements describes Hexose Monophosphate Shunt?
* It is used by Enterococcus faecalis * It operates simultaneously with glycolysis * It yields only 1 net gain of ATP molecule
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scientists believed that microorganisms in the air can be killed by heating?
Spallanzani
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following tests identifies the microorganisms by detecting small amounts of microbial DNA in a sample?
Polymerase Chain Reaction
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the following bacterial genera is parasitic on other Gram negative bacteria?
Bdellovibrio
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bacterial genera lacks cell wall?
Mycoplasma
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structures external to the bacterial cell wall are responsible in facilitating adhesions to the host cell?
Fimbrae
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serves as template for DNA synthesis?
another DNA
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microbiologist that described spores as special stage in the life cycle of hay bacillus
Ferdinand Cohn
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1. following scientists did not oppose the theory of spontaneous generation?
Needham
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stage of bacterial growth cycle has deficient enzymes and coenzymes?
lag phase
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bacterial genera is gram positive?
Bacillus
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How can we measure bacterial activity?
biochemical test
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bacterial genera is budding and/or appendaged?
Caulobacter
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microorganisms produces green crystals around colonies?
* Pseudomonas chlororaphis
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Whose observation laid the groundwork for the development of the cell theory?
Hooke
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72. Which of the following is an oxidizing agent?
Ferric ion
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Who discovered the antibiotic ‘Penicillin'?
Alexander Fleming
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term appropriate when we refer to all organized chemical activities performed by a cell for energy production?
catabolism
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metabolic pathways is amphibolic (pathway that functions in both anabolistic and catabolistic reactions.?
Kreb cycle
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bacterial genera is described as very short rods with no flagella?
* Brucella * Francisella * Bordetella
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highly pleomorphic with no cell wall?
mycoplasma
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group of microorganisms grows in Saboraud’s Dextrose Agar?
fungi
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term appropriate when we refer to all organized chemical activities performed by a cell that utilized energy?
anabolism
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food reserve deposits are found in enteric bacteria?
glycogen
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pathway is an initial step for both fermentation and cellular respiration of eukaryotes?
Embden Meyerhoff Pathway
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major group of microorganisms generates ATP via photophosphorylation?
algae
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microorganisms produces yellow colonies?
Mirococcus luteus
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95. Who is the microbiologist who concluded that epidemic disease can be spread directly or indirectly
Fracastoro
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major class of enzymes is involved in the addition of double bonds in a molecule as well as non-hydrolytic removal of chemical groups?
Lyases
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stage of bacterial growth cycle has constant population?
Stationary phase
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