Before first exam

Question 1

Microbiology is divided into what groups?

Answer 1

Bacteriology
Biology
Parasitology
Immunology

Question 2

Why acquire knowledge in infectious disease of animals?

Answer 2

Diagnose -> Treat -> Prevent

Question 3

T:F Virus are living microorganisms

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Key characteristic of Prokaryotes

Answer 4

Lack of nucleolus

Question 5

Prokaryote examples

Answer 5

Bacteria

Archaea

Question 6

What are cells that have nucleolus called

Answer 6

Eukaryotes

Question 7

Examples of Eukaryotes

Answer 7

Fungi
Protozoa
Helminths

Question 8

Virus and prions are examples of what kind of organism?

Answer 8

Acellular

Question 9

Prions are what?

Answer 9

Proteinaceous infectious partial. A wrongly folded protein.

Question 10

Examples of disease caused by Prion

Answer 10

BSE

Question 11

Benefits of microbes

Answer 11

Bread, cheese, yogurt, alcohol, wine, beer, antibodies, vaccinations, vitamins, enzymes

Question 12

Harm form microbes

Answer 12

Diseases, Food spoilage

Question 13

Functions of microbes that are essential components of a ecosystem.

Answer 13

Cycling of important nutrients
Nitrogen fixers
Energy Production (Natural Gas)
Bioremediation

Question 14

What two people developed the microscope?

Answer 14

Robert Hooke (Micro fungus)
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (Bacteria and Protozoa)

Question 15

What were the 4 questions that were the development of microbiology?

Answer 15

1) Where does the microbe originate?
2) What causes spoiling?
3) What causes disease?
4) How do we treat and prevent spoiling and disease?

Question 16

What are Louis Pasteur most significant achievements?

Answer 16

Disproved theory of spontaneous generation
Proposed germ theory of disease
Pasteurization
Rabies vaccination through usage of aviruent strains

Question 17

What is Abiogenesis

Answer 17

Abiogenesis is the theory that

address the actual origins of life on Earth.

Question 18

Who is the father of antiseptic surgery

Answer 18

Joseph Lister

Question 19

Who used cow-pox as a vacc for small-pox?

Answer 19

Edward Jenner

Question 20

Who is the father of cell biology and came up with the cell theory?

Answer 20

Rudolf Virchow - He also noted the link between diseases of humans and animals and coined the term “zoonosis”

Question 21

Who discovered “The Magic Bullet” Penicillin.

Answer 21

Alexander Fleming

Question 22

6 major elements in macromolecules

Answer 22

Carbon
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Sulfur
Phosphorous

Question 23

All living things have what 3 things in common?

Answer 23

Have a plasma membrane
Use ATP for energy
Genetic information in DNA

Question 24

What is taxonomy?

Answer 24

Science of classification of living objects
Common reference source
Universal language
Dynamic area of science
“Systematists” are the ppl who work in taxonomy

Question 25

Who presented the binomial nomenclature?

Answer 25

Carl Linneaus

Question 26

What is a species?

Answer 26

Sexually reproducing organisms. A population that can breed and produce fertile offspring

Question 27

Who came up with the current classification system?

Answer 27

Carl R Woese

Question 28

The current classification system is based on?

Answer 28

Structure of ribosomes used for protein synthesis. 16 rRNA

Question 29

Chain of classifications are

Answer 29

Life
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 30

How do we learn about relationship btwn living objects

Answer 30

Fossil Records
Comparative homologies
Comparative sequencing of genetic material

Question 31

Difference btwn archea and bacteria

Answer 31

Archea -lack peptidoglycan, a pathogenic one yet to be identified, extreme halophiles (saline), exteme thermophiles, methanoges