Week 1

Question 1

What is Microbiology?

Answer 1

The study of microorganisms called microbes

Question 2

Genetic material is NOT contained within the nucleus

Answer 2

Prokaryotic

Question 3

Eukaryotic have genetic material where?

Answer 3

Within nucleus.

Question 4

True or False?

Eukaryotic cells contain organelles.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Prokaryotic microbes include…

Answer 5

Bacteria

Archae

Question 6

Eukaryotic Cells include…

Answer 6

Protozoa
Fungi
Algae

Question 7

Non-Living, acellular microorganisms include…

Answer 7

Viruses

Prions

Question 8

What are prions?

Answer 8

Infectious proteins

Question 9

Basic microbiology is?

Answer 9

Study of microorganisms to understand basic biological processes

Question 10

Applied microbiology is?

Answer 10

Using basic microbiology to answer specific questions, ex. drug development

Question 11

What is a culture?

Answer 11

The growth of one or more species of microorganisms in lab settings

Question 12

What are mixed cultures?

Answer 12

More then one species of microorganism is within a culture.

Question 13

What is media?

Answer 13

Plates used to grow cultures. Can be solid or liquid.

Question 14

What are liquid plates made of?

Answer 14

Broth

Question 15

Culture technique used that uses a zig-zag pattern in 4 quadrants of the slide.

Answer 15

Streak Plate Technique

Question 16

Type of culture often used in experiments?

Answer 16

Pure cultures.

Question 17

What is a bacteria lawn?

Answer 17

Grown in plates with bacteria placed on top to test antimicrobial properties of substances.

Question 18

How has microbes influenced history?

Answer 18

The rise and fall of civilizations can be related to diseases spread throughout areas.

Question 19

Disease spread via invertebrates between humans

Answer 19

Vector-borne disease (The bubonic plague)

Question 20

rapid replication of microbes, onset of symptoms, and transmission indicates what type of disease?

Answer 20

Acute

Question 21

Chronic diseases are characterized by?

Answer 21

Slow microbial replication, transmission, and onset of symptoms.

Question 22

Microscopes triggered what event?

Answer 22

The first discovery of bacteria and protozoa.

Question 23

Is spontaneous generation true?

Answer 23

False, microorganisms arise from sources already containing microbes not spontaneously.

Question 24

Pasteur invented what method still used today?

Answer 24

Pasteurization.

Question 25

What is pasteurization?

Answer 25

Temporary heating of liquids to remove contaminants.

Question 26

Ignaz Semmelweis determined what?

Answer 26

That microbes could carry and cause disease.

Question 27

Hygiene principles in medical care are from whom?

Answer 27

Ignaz Semmelweis (Austrian Physician)

Question 28

Aseptic technique was started by?

Answer 28

Joseph Lister. He used phenol to kill bacteria.

Question 29

Who discovered Pure culture technique?

Answer 29

Robert Koch.

Question 30

Robert Koch discovered and linked bacterias causing what illnesses?

Answer 30

Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) | Tuberculosis (Myobacterium tuberculosis)

Question 31

What is the study of the immune system and its responses to foreign materials called?

Answer 31

Immunology

Question 32

Vaccinations began where? when?

Answer 32

Over 1000 years ago in China and India. Smallpox was used to intentionally inoculate individuals.

Question 33

True or False? Less virulent strains are often used in vaccines.

Answer 33

True.

Question 34

Which microorganisms cannot replicate outside of cells?

Answer 34

Viruses

Question 35

Mosquitos that transmit diseases to humans are?

Answer 35

Vectors

Question 36

Vector-borne diseases are...

Answer 36

transmitted by mosquitoes and other anthropods.

Question 37

What is a monoculture?

Answer 37

Area of land dominated by a single crop.

Question 38

"Clostridium acetobutylicum" is responsible for what?

Answer 38

Acetone production from eating sugars.

Question 39

Cross-Reactive means?

Answer 39

Antibodies bind to more then one microbe.

Question 40

Helminths are?

Answer 40

Large parasitic worms.