Food Safety

Question 1

Two types of food-borne illness from microbes:

Answer 1

Food infections and Food intoxications

Question 2

Illness resulting from eating food contaminated with living organisms:

Answer 2

– Food infections

Question 3

Illness resulting from eating food in which microbes have secreted toxins (poisons):

Answer 3

– Food intoxications

Question 4

Disease-causing microbes are called:

Answer 4

pathogens.

Question 5

not all microbes are:

Answer 5

pathogens

Question 6

adaptations of bacteria:

Answer 6

1. Capsule
2. Biofilm
3. Pili
4. Spore formation

Question 7

What allows bacteria to attach more firmly onto places:

Answer 7

the capsule

Question 8

tangled web of fibers that adhere

firmly onto substrates:

Answer 8

A biofilm

Question 9

arms that some bacteria can produce to exchange genes with other bacterial cells

Answer 9

pili

Question 10

exchange of genes with other bacterial cells:

Answer 10

horizontal gene transfer

Question 11

bacteria can always acquire genes that make them resistant to:

Answer 11

antibiotics.

Question 12

bacteria can always acquire genes that make them resistant to:

Answer 12

antibiotics.

Question 13

Spores are resistant to:

Answer 13

–	Heat (survives boiling after several hours)
 – UV radiation
 – Gamma radiation 
– Chemical disinfection 
– Desiccation