LECTURE 1 QUIZ

Question 1

is the study of living organisms

Answer 1

biology

Question 2

is an advance biology course dealing with the study of MICROBES , which are extremely small (microscopic) living organisms and certain nonliving entities

Answer 2

microbiology

Question 3

are known as cellular microbes or microorganisms; examples BACTERIA, ARCHAE, SOME ALGAE, PROTOZOA, FUNGI

Answer 3

living microbes

Question 4

are known as acellular or infectious particles; viroids, prions, and viruses

Answer 4

nonliving microbes

Question 5

microbes are _____ (they are found virtually everywhere

Answer 5

ubiquitous

Question 6

prions and viruses

Answer 6

acellular infectious agents

Question 7

cellular microorganisms

Answer 7

prokaryotes (archaea, bacteria) eukaryotes (algae, fungi, protozoa)

Question 8

the microbes that cause diseases are sometimes referred to as

Answer 8

germs

Question 9

the scientific term for disease-causing is

Answer 9

pathogens

Question 10

microbes hat do not cause disease are called ____ (majority of microbes)

Answer 10

nonpathogens

Question 11

microbes that live on and in our bodies are referred to as our _____

Answer 11

indigenous microbiota

Question 12

are microbes that can cause disease, but usually do not; they can be thought of as microbes that are awaiting the opportunity to cause disease

Answer 12

opportunistic pathogens

Question 13

pathogens cause two categories of disease

Answer 13

infectious diseases and microbial intoxication

Question 14

it serves as food for tiny animals; they are important links in food chains

Answer 14

algae and bacteria

Question 15

the use of living organisms or their derivatives to make or modify iuseful products or processess is called ______

Answer 15

biotechnology

Question 16

candidates for the first microorganisms on earth are ___________

Answer 16

archaea and cyanobacteria

Question 17

earliest known account of pestilence occurred in egypt in about

Answer 17

3180 BC

Question 18

• the first person to see live bacteria, the father of microbiology,bacteriology, protozoology.
• a fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer and a minor city official in delft, holland.
• he ground tiny g
  ass lenses, which he mounted in small metal frames

Answer 18

anton van leeuwenhoek

Question 19

• by 1975 an english scientist used microscopic observations to support the theory of abiogenesis
• he boiled meat broth for several minutes in a loosely sealed flask
  -after boiling, he saw under the microscope that the broth had no living things
• he examined the flash and found microorganisms

Answer 19

john needham

Question 20

proved that maggots did not come from a piece of meat

Answer 20

francesco redi

Question 21

heated the soup before culturing

Answer 21

lazaro spallanzani

Question 22

• french chemist who made numerous contributions to microbiology
• investigated different fermentation products
• developed the pasteurization process
• discovered life forms that could exist without oxygen (anaerobes)
• developed vaccines, like rabies
• HE HEATED IT TO KILL ALL LIFE (long s)

Answer 22

Louis pasteur (1822-1895)

Question 23

• german physician who made numerous contribution to microbiology
• made significant contri to the germ theory of disease
• discovered that bacillus anthracis produce SPORES
• developed METHODS OF FIXING AND STAINING BACTERIA AND CULTIVATE BACTERIA

Answer 23

robert koch (1843-1910)

Question 24

this scientific procedure published in 1884, and become known as ______ (proved that specific microbe is the cause of specific infectious disease) (louis pasteur and robert koch)

Answer 24

koch’s postulates

Question 25

is a scientist who studies microbes.

Answer 25

micrologist

Question 26

• involves the study of pathogens, the disease they cause and the body’s defenses against disease
• concerned with epidemiology , transmission of pathogens, disease measured prevention and production of vaccines

Answer 26

medical microbiology