Microbiology

Question 1

Which microbiologist is credited for advancing the field of virology

Answer 1

Wendell Stanley; magnifying a virus with an electron microscope

Question 2

Who is credited with conceptualizing and advancing the study of immunization

Answer 2

Edward Jenner

Question 3

Recognized for advancing the process of infection control?

Answer 3

Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 4

Leewenhoek is credited with what

Answer 4

Identifying bacteria yeast and Protozoa

Question 5

Fungi are essential to which activity

Answer 5

Production of beer

Question 6

Example of a probiotic

Answer 6

Penicillin

Question 7

Microorganisms are more harmful or more beneficial to mankind?

Answer 7

Beneficial

Question 8

True or false; most microbial agents are predatory, inflicting intentional harm on their host or habitat

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Which sub discipline was the focus of the “golden age of microbiology”?

Answer 9

Bacteriology

Question 10

Louis Pasteur is acknowledged for developing the process of pasteurization and

Answer 10

Immunization

Question 11

A virus does not contain which component

Answer 11

Cell wall

Question 12

Cowpox provides cross-immunity for which disease

Answer 12

Smallpox

Question 13

Heating a liquid to kill bacteria is called

Answer 13

Pasteurization

Question 14

Each microorganism was once identified as an animalcule except which one

Answer 14

Virus

Question 15

Early methods of disease prevention developed in which order

Answer 15

Handwashing, pasteurization, presurgical phenol spray, immunization

Question 16

Which theory supports the early aseptic use of presurgical phenol spray

Answer 16

Airborne microorganisms spread disease through indirect contact

Question 17

Yeast cells are used to synthesize which vaccination

Answer 17

Hep B

Question 18

The first steps of preventing harmful effects of microorganisms is

Answer 18

Infection control

Question 19

What is microbiology

Answer 19

Study of small life forms including virus bacteria fungi Protozoa and algae

Question 20

Prions are knows as

Answer 20

Infectious proteins

Question 21

4 sub disciplines within microbiology

Answer 21

Bacteriology
Mycology
Protozoology
Virology

Question 22

What is bacteriology

Answer 22

Study of bacteria

Question 23

What is mycology

Answer 23

Study of fungi

Question 24

Infection control is

Answer 24

Controlling microbial contamination and infection

Question 25

T/F MO’s can dominate in a setting such as a dental office and can lead to the transmission of infectious diseases

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Girolamo Fracastoro recognized what

Answer 26

The existence of tiny living particles that cause contagious disease (named syphillis)

Question 27

What is tyndellization

Answer 27

Prolonging heat to destroy bacteria (John Tyndall)

Question 28

Bacteria exists in 2 forms which are

Answer 28

Heat sensitive and heat stable

Question 29

When are microorganisms harmful

Answer 29

When they are someplace they shouldn’t be and when they grow out of control

Question 30

Gram staining determines the differences in what

Answer 30

Cell wall

Question 31

Ferdinand Cohn discovered what

Answer 31

Endospores

Question 32

Joseph lister discovered

Answer 32

That airborne microorganisms can be reduced with carbolic acid (phenols)

Question 33

What are probiotics

Answer 33

Microbes that can confer a health benefit to a host when given in adequate amounts

Question 34

Example of Protozoa would be

Answer 34

Parasite

Question 35

Who became knows as the father of oral microbiology

Answer 35

Willoughby D Miller

Question 36

Pasteurization is achieved by heating a fluid to what temp for how long

Answer 36

To 63°C for 30 mins

Question 37

Viruses that infect bacteria are called

Answer 37

Bacteriophages