MODULE 1 - Introduction

Question 1

What is a microbial fossil of granular silica that is 3.5 billion years old?

Answer 1

Swartkoppie Cherts

Question 2

What is concerned with the relationship of organisms with their environment?

Answer 2

Microbial Ecology

Question 3

Who developed a vaccine for various diseases via attenuation techniques?

Answer 3

Louis Pasteur

Question 4

Microbes produced energy and carbon via photosynthesis to areas with absence to light -

Answer 4

Microbial Ecology

Question 5

Neutrophils elevate during bacterial infection -

Answer 5

Immunology

Question 6

Diagnosis and treatment to protect and prevent infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microbes

Answer 6

Public Health Microbiology

Question 7

Microbial solutions enable farmers ways to protect their crops from pests and diseases

Answer 7

Agricultural Microbiology

Question 8

Microbes can be used to create high-value products such as drugs, chemicals and fuel -

Answer 8

Industrial Microbiology

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT an importance of bacteria?
A. Not found anywhere in the planet
B. Causes disease in animals and plants
C. Contribute to the oxygen supply since some are able to photosynthesize

Answer 9

A. Not found anywhere in the planet

Question 10

Who designed to prevent microorganisms from entering wounds by developing a system of surgery?

Answer 10

Joseph Lister

Question 11

Who performed the Swan neck-flask experiment?

Answer 11

Louis Pasteur

Question 12

Who is considered the Father of Microbiology and the Father of Microscopy?

Answer 12

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 13

What is concerned with the control and spread of communicable disease?

Answer 13

Public Health Microbiology

Question 14

Who discredited Spontaneous generation / segregation?

Answer 14

Francisco Redi

Question 15

What are the earliest molecules?

Answer 15

RNA

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT an acellular microorganism?

Answer 16

Protists

Question 17

What is the root or origin of modern life as a bacterial branch of controversial nature?

Answer 17

Last Universal Common Ancestor

Question 18

Who established the relationship between Bacillus anthracis and anthrax?

Answer 18

Robert Koch

Question 19

Who discovered the bacteria-engulfing phagocytic cells in the blood?

Answer 19

Ellie Metchnikoff

Question 20

Which is NOT a Koch’s Postulate?
A. The suspected microorganisms must be isolate and grown in pure culture
B. The particular bacteria cannot be grown in pure culture in the Laboratory
C. The same microorganisms must be isolated again from the diseases host

Answer 20

The particular bacteria cannot be grown in pure culture in the Laboratory

Question 21

Differentiate Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Answer 21

Refer to your module packets/notes

Question 22

Can produce their own cell wall

Answer 22

Cellular

Question 23

Do not produce their own cell wall

Answer 23

Acellular

Question 24

Depends on their host to grow

Answer 24

Virus

Question 25

Cannot live without another virus

Answer 25

Satellite Virus

Question 26

Composed of Proteins but causes diseases to animals and humans

Answer 26

Prions

Question 27

Explain John Needham Experiment

Answer 27

His experiments; Mutton broth - boiled - sealed Results: broth became cloudy and contained microorganisms

Question 28

Idea that living organisms can develop from non- living or decomposing matter

Answer 28

Spontaneous generation

Question 29

Showed that if dust was absent, nutrient broths remained sterile, even if directly exposed to air and provided evidence for the existence of exceptionally heat-resistant forms of bacteria

Answer 29

John Tyndall

Question 30

Heat-resistant bacteria could produce | endospores

Answer 30

Ferdinand Cohn

Question 31

____are like eggs containing DNA that enables germination of the said bacteria again in favorable conditions

Answer 31

Endospores

Question 32

Demonstrated that the great Potato Blight of | Ireland was caused by a water mold

Answer 32

M.J Berkeley

Question 33

Showed that a disease of silkworms was | caused by a fungus

Answer 33

Agostino Bassi

Question 34

Showed that smut and rust fungi caused cereal crop diseases

Answer 34

Heinrich de Bary

Question 35

Father of Hand washing

Answer 35

Joseph Lister

Question 36

immunity obtained from other organisms (e.g. antibodies obtained from mother’s breast milk)

Answer 36

Passive Immunity

Question 37

immune response created by our own body

Answer 37

Active Immunity

Question 38

Studies soil microorganism and discovered numerous interesting metabolic properties (e.g., nitrogen fixation) and they Pioneered the use of enrichment cultures and selective media

Answer 38

Sergei Winogradsky and Martinus | Beijerinck

Question 39

Infectious agents composed of RNA

Answer 39

Viroids and Virusoids

Question 40

What are the 3 Classification Schemes ?

Answer 40

Domain Bacteria Domain Archaea Domain Eukarya - Eukaryotic