Final: Chapter 1- Introduction To Microbiology

Question 1

What is microbiology and what types of organisms are studied in this field of biology?

Answer 1

Microbiology is the study of living things too small to be seen without magnification.

Microbes studied are bacteria, archaea, Protozoa, algae, fungi, heminths, viruses

Question 2

Which of the microbes studied are considered non-living?

Answer 2

Viruses

Question 3

How are algae and plants similar?

Answer 3

They are both photosynthetic

Question 4

What does ubiquitous mean?

Answer 4

They are found all over

Question 5

Why are archaea considered extremophiles?

Answer 5

They tend to live in extreme/harsh conditions where most other life forms cannot survive

Question 6

What is a pathogen? Are the majority of microbes pathogens?

Answer 6

Pathogens are microbes that cause disease. A majority of microbes are non pathogenic

Question 7

What is a symbiotic relationship?

Answer 7

A relationship between two organisms. There are mutual, comensal, and parasitic symbiotic relationships.

Question 8

What is an emerging disease?

Answer 8

A disease that has appeared in a population for the first time, or that may have existed previously but is rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range