Ch. 14

Question 1

Symbiosis

Answer 1

Organisms living together

Question 2

2 most common super kingdoms

Answer 2

• Firmicutes

* Bacteroides

Question 3

Good normal microbiota do:

Answer 3

• Prevent overgrowth (Competitive exclusion)
• Break down carbs
• Make vitamins (EX: K)

Question 4

Types of microbes of normal microbiota:

Answer 4

• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Protozoa

Question 5

Commensalism

Answer 5

• One of the organisms benefit and the other is unaffected.

* Many that make up our normal microbiota are commensals

Question 6

Mutualism

Answer 6

Type of symbiosis that benefit both organisms.

Question 7

Parasitism

Answer 7

One organism benefits by deriving nutrients from the other

Question 8

Opportunistic pathogen’s

Answer 8

Do not cause disease and their normal habitat in a healthy person but do in a different environment. Some are commensals and some are not

Question 9

Prevent overgrowth

Answer 9

Competitive exclusion

Question 10

Begins with an outbreak. Spreads at a rapid speed so we need to try and contain it.

Answer 10

Epidemic Disease

Question 11

Disease that spread from host to host. Directly or indirectly.
Ex: Flu, arbovirus

Answer 11

Communicable Disease

Question 12

An epidemic disease worldwide.

Ex: Seasonal flu, AIDS

Answer 12

Pandemic Disease

Question 13

KPC

Answer 13

Klebsiella Pneumoniae Carbapenemase

Question 14

Common virus in a hospital

Answer 14

Norovirus: food borne, dry vomit (stomach flu)