Pre-Matriculation Microbiology Part I Summative Exam Flashcards
Question:
What structure in Gram-positive bacteria is responsible for retention of crystal violet during the Gram staining process?
Answer Choices:
1. Chitin
2. Membrane-bound organelles
3. Nucleus
4. Peptidoglycan
- Peptidoglycan
Question:
What fungi exist in a unicellular state?
Answer Choices
1. Hyphae
2. Mold
3. Mycelia
4. Yeast
- Yeast
Question:
The pathology of Staphylococcus aureus depends on the area of colonization. For example, colonizing the lungs can cause pneumonia.
What is an additional manifestation of an S. aureus infection?
Answer Choices:
1. Ear infection
2. Urinary tract infection
3. Impetigo
4. Throat infection
- Impetigo
Question:
What can cause mild to life-threatening gastrointestinal infections?
Answer Choices:
1. Bordetella pertussis
2. Candida albicans
3. Escherichia coli
4. Streptococcus pyogenes
- Escherichia coli
Question:
What arrangement has flagella on both polar ends of an organism?
Answer Choices:
1. Amphitrichous
2. Lophotrichous
3. Monotrichous
4. Peritrichous
- Amphitrichous
Question:
What protein structure allows for the transfer of DNA between two bacterial cells, and what is this transfer called?
Answer Choices:
1. Cilia; conjugation
2. Fimbriae; transduction
3. Flagella; transduction
4. Pili; conjugation
- Pili; conjugation
Question:
Where is peptidoglycan located within the Gram-negative cell wall?
Answer Choices:
1. Cytoplasm
2.Lipopolysaccharide
3. Outer membrane
4. Periplasmic space
- Periplasmic space
Question:
What molecule promotes adhesion within the Gram-positive cell wall?
Answer Choices:
1.Lipopolysaccharide
2. O antigen
3. Porins
4. Teichoic acid
- Teichoic acid
Question:
What is the phospholipid bilayer immediately adjacent to the cell wall that encloses the cytoplasm?
Answer Choices:
1. Cytoskeleton
2. Plasmid
3. Plasma membrane
4. Ribosome
- Plasma membrane
Question:
What is located in a cell’s nucleoid?
Answer Choices:
1. Circular chromosomes of double-stranded DNA
2. Membrane-bound organelles
3. Nucleus
4. Plasmids
- Circular chromosomes of double-stranded DNA
Question:
What does cytosine bond with within deoxyribonucleic acid?
Answer Choices:
1. Adenine
2. Guanine
3. Thymine
4. Uracil
- Guanine
Question:
Ribonucleic acid generally exists in what form?
Answer Choices:
1. Circular
2. Double-stranded
3. Single-stranded
4. Plasmid
- Single-stranded
Question:
What transcription factor stops RNA polymerase from continuing the prokaryotic gene transcription process?
Answer Choices:
1. Activator
2. Inducer
3. Operator
4. Repressor
- Repressor
Question:
What is the term for the prokaryotic grouping of genes that encode for a protein associated with similar functionality?
Answer Choices:
1. Activator
2. Inducer
3. Operon
4. Transcription factor
- Operon
Question:
What type of mutation may be caused by addition or removal of a single nucleotide pair and results in the polymerization of a stretch of incorrect amino acids until a stop codon is reached?
Answer Choices:
1. Frameshift
2. Inversion
3. Missense
4. Nonsense
- Frameshift
Question:
Insertion or deletion of a certain quantity of base pairs will not cause a frameshift mutation if it does not shift the reading frame. For this to occur, the number of base pairs must be divisible by what number?
Answer Choices:
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
- 3
Question:
What is the term for bacterial uptake of DNA from the environment within a competent cell?
Answer Choices:
1. Conjugation
2. Replication
3. Transduction
4. Transformation
- Transformation
Question:
What is the term for the one-way passage of genetic material from donor to recipient?
Answer Choices:
1. Asexual reproduction
2. Binary fission
3. Horizontal gene transfer
4. Replication
- Horizontal gene transfer
Question:
In hospitals, outbreaks of Staphylococcus aureus have been linked to nasal carriers or employees with active lesions. Since elimination of nasal carriage is often impractical, what is a more expedient defense to transmission of Staphylococcus aureus?
Answer Choices:
1. Administration of mupirocin to patients
2. Implementation of a mandatory mask policy
3. Mandatory employee screenings
4. Washing hands
- Washing hands
Question
What is the primary cause of symptoms associated with scalded skin syndrome?
Answer Choices
1. Bacterial release of toxin
2. Catalase
3. Coagulase
4. Toxic shock syndrome
- Bacterial release of toxin
Question:
As a form of food poisoning, what accounts for the virulence of the enterotoxin produced by S. aureus?
Answer Choices:
1. Acute osteomyelitis
2. Beta-lactamase
3. Gram-positive classification
4. Heat resistance
- Heat resistance
Question:
In addition to beta-lactamases, what enables the resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to methicillin, penicillin, and similar drugs?
Answer Choices:
1. Catalase
2. Coagulase
3. Exfoliatin toxin
4. Penicillin binding protein
- Penicillin binding protein
Question:
When a patient presents with fever, fatigue, and stiff neck, which manifestation of Streptococcus pneumoniae is likely?
Answer Choices:
1. Otitis media
2. Sinusitis
3. Pneumococcal meningitis
4. Pneumococcal pneumonia
- Pneumococcal meningitis
Question:
Which of the following provide rationale for use of beta-lactam antibiotics, rather than penicillin, as effective for treatment of otitis media and sinusitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae?
Answer Choices:
1. Alpha hemolysis
2. Altered penicillin binding protein
3. Beta-lactamases
4. Gram-positive classification
- Altered penicillin binding protein
Case:
A 32-year-old man presents with fever, headache, dry cough, and myalgias for the past 2 days. The patient denies having his seasonal vaccine this year.
Question:
What virus type is probably causative of the patient’s symptoms?
Answer Choices:
1. Enveloped double-stranded DNA virus
2. Enveloped single-stranded RNA virus
3. Naked double-stranded DNA virus
4. Naked single-stranded RNA virus
- Enveloped single-stranded RNA virus
Question:
What patients might experience a severe presentation of varicella infection (chickenpox)?
Answer Choices:
1. Children previously infected with varicella
2. Patients receiving chemotherapy
3. Patients vaccinated against varicella
4. Very young children
- Patients receiving chemotherapy
Question:
What accounts for the change in the influenza virus from year to year?
Answer Choices:
1. Antigenic drift
2. Antigenic shift
3. Complementation
4. Phenotypic mixing
- Antigenic drift
Question:
A patient presents with severe pain several months after having recovered from shingles. The area of the healed rash is described as throbbing or burning, and at times the patient cannot wear clothing because of the pain it causes on the skin. What is the most likely cause of this patient’s pain?
Answer Choices:
1. Antiviral medications
2. Postherpetic neuralgia
3. Viremia
4. Zoster vaccination
- Postherpetic neuralgia
Question:
What virus causes fever, headache, dry cough, and myalgias?
Answer Choices:
1. Haemophilus influenzae
2. Orthomyxovirus
3. Paramyxovirus
4. Rhinovirus
- Orthomyxovirus
Question:
What virus presents with painful lesions around the oral mucosa with vesicular lesions on physical examination, some of which are pustular or ulcerated?
Answer Choices:
1. Herpes simplex virus 1
2. Herpes simplex virus 2
3. Herpes simplex virus 3
4. Herpes simplex virus 4
- Herpes simplex virus 1