Introduction To Microbiology

Question 1

Algae that causes red tide poisoning?

Answer 1

Dinoflagellates

Question 2

Main role of microorganisms in our environment?

Answer 2

Decompose

Question 3

What are the two naturally occurring products that are being produce by microorganisms?

Answer 3

Cellulase and insulin

Question 4

What is the vital tool to see microorganisms?

Answer 4

Microscope

Question 5

Other term for microorganisms?

Answer 5

Germ

Question 6

What are the two industrial chemicals that microorganisms produce?

Answer 6

Ethanol and acetone

Question 7

What are the two other terms of non-pathogenic and is normally identified in human body?

Answer 7

Microbiota and normal flora

Question 8

What bacteria causes Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) infection?

Answer 8

Staphylococcus epidermidis

Question 9

Also known as Colon bacillus?

Answer 9

Escherichia coli

Question 10

Who is the father of taxonomy, he established nomenclature?

Answer 10

Carl Linnaeus

Question 11

What are the two things to consider when naming organisms?

Answer 11

Genus and specific epithet

Question 12

In mannitol salt agar (MSA) what is the pigment color of Staphylococcus aureus?

Answer 12

Pearly white color

Question 13

Who discovers Escherichia coli?

Answer 13

Theodore Escherich

Question 14

Is bacteria eukaryotes?

Answer 14

False, prokaryotes

Question 15

What polysaccharides can be identified in bacterial cell wall?

Answer 15

Peptidoglycan (able to differentiate if the bacteria is gram + or gram -)

Question 16

Is bacteria multiply by binary fission?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

What are the two bacteria that Robert Koch discovers or isolate?

Answer 17

Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Bacillus anthracis

Question 18

Who developed the synthetic drug called salvarsan?

Answer 18

Paul Ehrlich

Question 19

Salvarsan is developed to treat what kind of infection?

Answer 19

Syphilis

Question 20

Syphilis is caused by what bacteria?

Answer 20

Treponema pallidum

Question 21

In 1928, Alexander Flemming discovered the first antibiotic on a fungi, what is this fungi?

Answer 21

Penicillium notatum

Question 22

Penicillium notatum made antibiotic called penicillin which kills what bacteria?

Answer 22

Staphylococcus aureus

Question 23

When was penicillin was tested and mass produce?

Answer 23

1940s

Question 24

Who discovered the first antibiotic?

Answer 24

Alexander Flemming

Question 25

What are the other two terms for syphilis?

Answer 25

The great imitators disease and hard chancre

Question 26

Who is the father of immunology and is also the person who discovers a lot of vaccines?

Answer 26

Edward Jenner (1796)

Question 27

In what year sulfonamides were synthesized?

Answer 27

1930s

Question 28

In what year Paul Ehrlich developed the salvarsan a synthetic arsenic drug?

Answer 28

1910

Question 29

This are chemicals produced by bacteria and fungi that inhibit/kill other microbes?

Answer 29

Antibiotics

Question 30

These are use to treat infectious disease it can be synthetic drugs or antibiotics?

Answer 30

Chemotherapeutic agents

Question 31

It’s from a tree bark and it’s long used to treat parasitic infection which is malaria?

Answer 31

Quinine

Question 32

What is the shape of Treponema pallidum?

Answer 32

Spirochetal rod

Question 33

Who proposed the use of immunology to identify some bacteria according to serotypes (variants within species)?

Answer 33

Rebecca Lancefield (1933)

Question 34

In 1960s, who identified the bacteriophage?

Answer 34

Paul Berg

Question 35

Recombinant DNA or genetic engineering involves what two methods?

Answer 35

Microbial genetics and Molecular biology

Question 36

This is infection that is fatal in many insects but harmless to other animals, humans, and plants, this is used to kill mosquitoes?

Answer 36

Bacillus thuringiensis

Question 37

Normal microbiota produce growth factors such as?

Answer 37

There are two possible answers: Folic acid and Vitamin k

Question 38

Microorganisms can produce fermented food, give 3 examples

Answer 38

Vinegar, cheese, and bread

Question 39

We study microorganisms to prevent what?

Answer 39

Prevent food spoilage and prevent disease occurrence

Question 40

What are these two bacteria that are found in human body?

Answer 40

Staphylococcus aureus (skin) and Escherichia coli (large intestine)

Question 41

The oldest bacteria, prokaryotic and can live in extreme environments?

Answer 41

Archaea

Question 42

The bacteria’s optimum temperature for their growth requirement is 37°C, this is term as?

Answer 42

Mesophile (bacteria’s are called mesophilic)

Question 43

Bacteria that can live in the presence of gas are called?

Answer 43

Methanogens

Question 44

They can live with high salt concentration?

Answer 44

Halophiles (bacteria are called halophilic)

Question 45

Bacteria that can live in extremely hot temperature is called? (Can live more than 47°C)

Answer 45

Thermophile (bacteria is called thermophilic)

Question 46

Largest microorganisms, eukaryotes made of either unicellular or multicellular?

Answer 46

Fungi

Question 47

TRUE OR FALSE Yeasts is unicellular Molds and mushrooms multicellular

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Molds and mushrooms are multicellular consisting of masses __________, which are composed of filaments called __________.

Answer 48

Mycelia and hyphae

Question 49

Fungi use organic chemicals for energy what is its term?

Answer 49

Saprophytic

Question 50

Influenza A virus or the H5N2, what are the two toxins that made up the H5N2?

Answer 50

Haemagglutinin and neuraminase

Question 51

Who is the father of classical microbiology?

Answer 51

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 52

All living things are composed of cells and come from pre-existing cells

Answer 52

Cell theory

Question 53

Life came from another life

Answer 53

Biogenesis theory

Question 54

Who proposed the three-domain classification?

Answer 54

Carl Woese

Question 55

What are the three domain classification?

Answer 55

Bacteria Archaea Eukarya

Question 56

Life came from non-life, hypothesis that living organisms arise from non-living matter

Answer 56

Spontaneous generation

Question 57

One of the ways we can able to kill microorganisms?

Answer 57

Heating

Question 58

The father of modern microbiology

Answer 58

Lois Pasteur

Question 59

Who invented the s-shaped flask?

Answer 59

Lois Pasteur

Question 60

Its anaerobic and the conversation of sugar to alcohol to make beer and wine, and alcohol to make vinegar

Answer 60

Fermentation

Question 61

Sterilization technique that will be able to lower or inhibit the growth of microorganisms

Answer 61

Pasteurization