quiz questions 1-6

Question 1

what is the smallest in size?

Answer 1

Virus

Question 2

which medical doctor first used phenol as an antiseptic and disinfectant

Answer 2

lister

Question 3

what bacteria structures did Cohn discover?

Answer 3

endospores

Question 4

what type of microbes do bacteriologists study?

Answer 4

prokaryotes

Question 5

what is Koch’s third postulate?

Answer 5

pure pathogens given to a healthy individual should cause disease

Question 6

what is an acellular microbes?

Answer 6

Bacteriophage

Question 7

what disease was Snow tracking in London when he did his epidemiological Work?

Answer 7

Cholera

Question 8

which of Whittaker’s Kingdoms contained prokaryotes?

Answer 8

Monera

Question 9

who used swan necked flasks to disprove spontaneous generation of microbes?

Answer 9

Pasteur

Question 10

what limits the resolving power of a microscope?

Answer 10

Wavelength of light used

Question 11

what type of microbe contains teichoic acid?

Answer 11

Gram positive

Question 12

what term refers to rod-shaped bacteria in chains

Answer 12

streptobacillus

Question 13

what gets larger as cell size decreases

Answer 13

surface area : volume ratio

Question 14

what are bacterial cell walls composed of?

Answer 14

peptidoglycan

Question 15

what is the most abundant macromolecule in a cell?

Answer 15

Protein

Question 16

what type of microbe contains axial filaments?

Answer 16

spirochetes

Question 17

what microbe does not contain murein?

Answer 17

mycoplasma

Question 18

What size are prokaryotic ribosomes?

Answer 18

70S

Question 19

what is volutin an example of?

Answer 19

Inclusion body

Question 20

what bacterium gave us the polymerase that we use in PCR?

Answer 20

Thermus aquaticus

Question 21

which group of bacteria are oxygenic phototrophs

Answer 21

cyanobacteria

Question 22

which is the largest group of cultured bacteria?

Answer 22

proteobacteria

Question 23

which bacteria would most likely make an endospore

Answer 23

bacillus

Question 24

what form of Chlamydia cells infect new host cells?

Answer 24

Elementary body

Question 25

what group of proteobacteria includes the cause of gastric ulcers?

Answer 25

Epsilon

Question 26

what group of microbes includes the acid fast bacteria?

Answer 26

Actinobacteria

Question 27

what group of bacteria are the low G+C gram positives?

Answer 27

Firmicutes

Question 28

what bacterium is used to produce sauerkraut?

Answer 28

Leuconostoc

Question 29

what group of proteobacteria are most genetically similar to our mitochondria?

Answer 29

Alpha

Question 30

where would the DNA in an archaea be found?

Answer 30

Nucleoid

Question 31

what group of archaea contain crenarchaeol?

Answer 31

Crenarcheota

Question 32

when were archaea first described as a group

Answer 32

1970s

Question 33

which is not an adaptation for living at high temperature?

Answer 33

unsaturated fatty acids in phospholipids

Question 34

what kind of growth conditions do methanogens require?

Answer 34

anaerobic

Question 35

how are archaea similar to eukaryotes?

Answer 35

they have introns

Question 36

what pigment do some archaea use to capture light energy?

Answer 36

Bacteriorhodopsin

Question 37

what group of microbes includes the methanogens?

Answer 37

euryarchaota

Question 38

what sugar is found in pseudopeptidoglycan but not true peptidoglycan?

Answer 38

NAT

Question 39

what is postulated to be the upper temperature limit for life on earth?

Answer 39

150 C

Question 40

where does aerobic respiration occur in a eukaryote?

Answer 40

Mitochondria

Question 41

what sterol do fungi use in their membranes?

Answer 41

Ergosterol

Question 42

which organelles contain DNA?

Answer 42

Mitochondria

Question 43

which type of microbes cause red tide?

Answer 43

Dinoflagellates

Question 44

what microbes use pseudopodia for feeding and motility?

Answer 44

Amoebozoa

Question 45

why does rough ER look rough?

Answer 45

Ribosomes present

Question 46

what is a primary endosymbiont?

Answer 46

Green algae

Question 47

what molecules make of most microbial capsules

Answer 47

polysaccharides

Question 48

what group of fungi is known as the club fungi?

Answer 48

Basidiomycetes

Question 49

what cytoskeleton protein is inside a eukaryotic flagellum?

Answer 49

Microtubule

Question 50

what is an example of a pathogen that is just protein?

Answer 50

Prion

Question 51

what is the lipid layer surrounding some viruses called?

Answer 51

envelope

Question 52

what is not found in viruses

Answer 52

ribosomes

Question 53

what type of genetic material is found in group IV viruses?

Answer 53

ss RNA (+strand)

Question 54

what is the approximate size of a virus?

Answer 54

50nm

Question 55

what is an example of a pathogen that is just nucleic acid?

Answer 55

Viroid

Question 56

what is the first step in a viral replication cycle?

Answer 56

attachment to host cell

Question 57

what is an example of a group V virus?

Answer 57

Influenza

Question 58

what part of a virus consists of a protein shell?

Answer 58

Capsid

Question 59

what type of genetic material is found in group III viruses?

Answer 59

ds RNA