Unit 1 - Introduction to Microbiology

Question 1

Aseptic

Answer 1

Sterile, free of viable microorganisms

Question 2

Avirulent

Answer 2

Unable to cause disease

Question 3

Contaminate

Answer 3

To introduce foreign microbes to substances that can support their growth and proliferation (eg., food, the human body)

Question 4

Ferment

Answer 4

To convert sugars to by-products, such as gas and ethanol

Question 5

Genus

Answer 5

The family name of a group of microorganisms

Question 6

Microbe

Answer 6

A unicellular organism that is simple in structure and cannot he seen with the naked eye

Question 7

Pasteurization

Answer 7

A process in which liquid are heated to kill most microbes

Question 8

Pathogenic

Answer 8

Causing disease

Question 9

Species

Answer 9

The descriptive name of specific microorganisms

Question 10

Toxin

Answer 10

A substance produced by some microbes that causes death or illness in other microbes or in humans and other animals

Question 11

Vaccine

Answer 11

An injected or inhaled substance that protects humans or other animals from infection by the active form of the given microorganism