Microbiology

Question 1

What bacteria is shaped like a comma?

Answer 1

Vibrio.

Question 2

What bacteria is shaped like a rod?

Answer 2

Bacillus

Question 3

What bacteria is shaped like a spiral?

Answer 3

Spirillium

Question 4

What bacteria is round?

Answer 4

Coccus

Question 5

What component of a body’s cell provides energy the cell needs to perform its specific functions?

Answer 5

Mitochondrion

Question 6

What organelle divides the chromosomes equally into the cells that result from the reproduction process and play a role in cell division?

Answer 6

Centriole.

Question 7

What organelle destroys and cleans out all cellular waste?

Answer 7

Lysosome

Question 8

What hair-like projections create movement in a wavelike motion across the cell’s surface?

Answer 8

Cilia

Question 9

What is the material inside the cell that contains organelles, such as mitochondria, that perform the functions of the cell?

Answer 9

Cytoplasm.

Question 10

What organelle in the cell sorts and combines carbohydrates and proteins to form glycoproteins?

Answer 10

Golgi Apparatus.

Question 11

What provides networks of passageways for moving substances within the cytoplasm?

Answer 11

Endoplasmic reticulum.

Question 12

What virus causes mono (mononucleosis)?

Answer 12

The Epstein-Barr virus causes mononucleosis. The virus spreads via contact with saliva from an infected person.

Question 13

What micro-organism fungus causes vaginal yeast infections and also thrush, a yeast infection in the mouth.

Answer 13

Candida albicans

Question 14

Function of a ribosome

Answer 14

Contributes to protein synthesis. Support the protein chains as RNA builds them.

Question 15

Function of endoplasmic reticulum

Answer 15

Provides networks of passageways for moving various substances within the cytoplasm

Question 16

What is the function of the mitochondrion

Answer 16

Organelle that gives the cell’s energy.