Micro 11 (Test 3)

Question 1

_____ breaks down blood clots

Answer 1

Streptokinase

Question 2

A _____ is an organism that has unwanted microbes within them.

Answer 2

host

Question 3

_____ is the degree of damage that a pathogen can enter a host and produce disease (i.e. influenza)

Answer 3

virulence

Question 4

A _____/_____ is made by the metabolism of bacteria and cannot be exported outside of the cell.

Answer 4

endo-toxins/endo-enzymes

Question 5

The ability of microbes to produce _____ has a great effect on their reproduction ability and the degree of the damage they cause to the host cell.

Answer 5

enzymes

Question 6

A _____ is any agent that is capable of producing a disease in a host.

Answer 6

pathogen

Question 7

_____ destroys red blood cells.

Answer 7

lecithinase

Question 8

_____ kills white blood cells

Answer 8

leukocidin

Question 9

_____ _____ keeps the tissues together.

Answer 9

hyaluronic acid

Question 10

An _____ is the presence of an animal parasite in or on the human body (ie. worms, lice, bed bugs)

Answer 10

infestation

Question 11

An _____ is made within the bacterial cell and can be exported externally through the cell membrane and the cell wall and causes damage.

Answer 11

exoenzyme

Question 12

_____ is an enzyme that destroys collaten that is found in bone, muscle, tendons, ligaments.

Answer 12

collagenase

Question 13

_____ is the body’s defense mechanism; deals with the ability of the body to destroy intruders that should not be there.

Answer 13

immunity

Question 14

Skin, tears, saliva, mucin, perspiration are body structures that are designed to _____ the entrance of a microbe.

Answer 14

prevent

Question 15

An endoenzyme stays inside the bacteria until the bacteria is destroyed by _____

Answer 15

lysis

Question 16

_____ is an enzyme that destroys hyluronic acid.

Answer 16

hyaluronidase

Question 17

An _____ is the interaction between tow things in which one of the living items harms the other.

Answer 17

infection

Question 18

The measure of the ability or ease at which a pathogen can enter a host and produce disease (i.e. influenza) is called _____

Answer 18

pathogenicity

Question 19

The action of antibodies is called _____ immunity

Answer 19

humoral

Question 20

The collection of fluid in an area of the body is called _____

Answer 20

edema

Question 21

Sings of an infection include (6)

Answer 21

redness, swelling, fever, edema, pain, and pus

Question 22

The defenses the body possesses using its natural cells to attack and destroy bacteria is called _____ immunity

Answer 22

cellular

Question 23

The two chemicals that attach to free nerve endings and cause pain are _____ and _____

Answer 23

bradykinin, prostoglandins

Question 24

___-_____ immunity is the presence of body structures and tissues that humans possess that is designed to prevent the entrance of a microbe.

Answer 24

non-specific

Question 25

_____ causes blood clots around the bacterial colony living

Answer 25

coagulase

Question 26

The ability of human being to avoid a disease is called _____

Answer 26

resistance

Question 27

_____ is produced by basophils and swell the blood capillaries to increase blood flow.

Answer 27

histamine

Question 28

White blood cells that get stuck and die while trying to pass through the capillaries accumulate and are called ___/___

Answer 28

pus/pyuria