Intro: Essentials of Microbiology

Question 1

What is microbiology?

Answer 1

• The study of microorganisms
• what bacteria are, and how they make their living

Question 2

What do microbiologists do?

Answer 2

• Work in almost every industry (food, agri., biotech, etc.)
• each are specialized (ex. mycologists study fungi)

Question 3

How do microbes interact with humans?

Answer 3

• humans get contaminated often

Question 4

Give a brief summary of the Spanish Flu

Answer 4

• Only Spain reported it in the news
• other countries reported WWI instead

Question 5

Why can viruses mutate quicker?

Answer 5

they have shorter genomes

Question 6

What does the immune system help with?

Answer 6

• The ability of a host to resist disease
  ex. viruses can form biofilms

Question 7

Do all microbes cause disease?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

Why do we need microbes as humans?

Answer 8

• they are essential components of a healthy human
• The normal microbiota or the human microbiome
• there are good microbiota like in the gut, probiotics

Question 9

What can help populate good flora in the gut?

Answer 9

• capsules and/or suppositiories

Question 10

What is chemotherapy?

Answer 10

• the use of drugs to treat disease
  we have bad bacteria so we fight back using drugs