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The microbiological significance of beaver fever is that it is
A. Caused by Giardia lamblia
B. Caused by a protozoan
C. A water-borne gastrointestinal disease
D. All of the above
E. A prion-caused obsessive-compulsive disorder of human males |
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| D. All of the above (caused by Giardia lamblia, caused by a protozoan, is a water-borne gastrointestinal disease. |
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Carleton Gadjusek...
A. Is an MD who won a nobel prize for epidemiological work on the etiological agent of Kuru.
B. Spent time in prison as a convicted pedophile.
C. Suggested that the Fore people of New Guinea quit eating the brains of deceased relatives.
D. Is all of the above.
E. Is all except B. |
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| D. Is all of the above (spent time in prison as a pedophile, suggested Fore people of New Guinea stop eating brains, won Nobel prize working on etiological agent 'Kuru') |
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Which of the below belongs within a division of fungi, and is/are likely to have sex right on your slice of bread?
A. Ciliophora (i.e. Paramecium, Tetrahymena
B. Rhizopus stolonifera
C. Halobacterium salinarium
D. Giardia spp., Cryptosporidium spp.
E. Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta |
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Stanley Prusiner...
A. Won a nobel prize for epidemiological work on the etiological agent of athlete's foot.
B. Spent time working on fungi at University of Texas, Austin.
C. Won a nobel prize for unveiling the nature of prions.
D. Suggested that the Fore people of New Guinea start eating pizza.
E. Is married to Nancy Pelosi |
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Definition
| Won a nobel prize for unveiling the nature of prions. |
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| The ameboid cells of Dictystelium discoideum swarm toward an "I cell" attracted by release of... A. Cyclic AMP B. Acrasin C. Perfume D. Steroid hormones E. A and B |
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Which genus produces cheeses we know as blue, camambert, and brie?
A. Lactobacillus
B. Saccharomyces
C. Penicillum
D. Neurospora
E. Aspergillus |
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Which genus is key to production of yoghurt and villi?
A. Lactobacillus
B. Saccharomyces
C. Neurospora
D. Azotobacter
E. Penicillum |
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"Stinkhorn fungi"...
A. Are members of Division Basidiomycota.
B. Resemble genitalia of human male and have a strong, unpleasant odor.
C. Are members of Division Ascomycota
D. Are members of Genus Phallus and indigenous to Northwest Florida.
D. Are all except C |
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Which informal terms describing the sexual fruiting bodies of fungi are in the common vernacular?
A. Mold and yeast
B. Propagules such as a sporangium or a conidiophore
C. Toadstools and mushrooms
D. Apples and oranges
E. Perithecium and cleistothecium |
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The orange logo from a major American university has relevance to which field of microbiology?
A. Discovery of prions
B. Elucidating etiology of mad cow disease
C. Tropical viral hemorrhagic fevers
D. Classical mycology
E. Bacterial food poisoning by staphylococci |
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Which of the below is infamous as the cause of necrotic skin and flesh legions?
A. Vibrio fischeri
B. Vibrio vulnificus
C. Vibrio cholerae
D. Vibrio badassificus
E. Vibrio parahaemolyticus |
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Definition
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Which of the below is a member of of the low G+C gram positive bacteria, but stains gram negatively and has no rigid cell wall?
A. Mollicutes
B. Viruses
C. Slime molds
D. Actinobacteria
E. B and C |
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Term
Circular permutation and terminal redundancy are phenomena that occur in...
A. Bacterial genomes
B. Prion amino acid sequences
C. Poisson distributions
D. Genomes of T-bacteriophage
E. None of the above. |
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Definition
| Genomes of T-bacteriophage |
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Diatoms...
A. Have silica skeletons
B. Are members of the Chrysophyta
C. Provide materials for filters and abrasives
D. Have cells with a bilateral symmatry
A. All of the above |
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Definition
| Are all of the above (have silica skeletons, are members of of the Chrysophyta, provide materials for filters/abrasives, have cells with bilateral symmetry). |
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Term
Which of the below groups of microbes has the largest number of known species?
A. Algae
B. Bacteria
C. Archaea
D. Fungi
E. Protozia |
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Definition
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Which of the below often has filamentous morphology?
A. Viruses
B. Slime molds
C. Class Mollicutes of Phylum Firmicutes (low G+C gram positives)
D. The Actinomycetes
E. Phylum proteobacteria |
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Which of the below include microbes exhibiting a type of cell division known as "snapping"?
A. Staphylococci
B. Streptococci
C. Arthrobacter, Corynebacterium
D. Archaea
E. Slime molds
F. Mollicutes |
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Definition
| Arthrobacter, Corynebacterium |
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Which of the below have eukaryotic cells but do not have rigid cell walls?
A. Mollicutes
B. Viruses
C. Slime molds
D. Actinobacteria
E. Staphylococci |
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Terminal redundancy of phage DNA sequences...
A. Means that the start and end of the DNA sequence is the same.
B. Results from the "head-full mechanism" of DNA packaging into the virion.
C. Occurs because the DNA is cut from a concatamer of phage genomes.
D. Occurs because the phage capsid can hold more than a complete phage genome.
E. All of the above. |
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Definition
| Means that the start and end of the DNA sequence is the same. |
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Term
What term describes microbes that can use methane or methanol as a carbon source?
A. Diazotroph
B. Methylotroph
C. Acrasiomycota
D. Myxomycota
E. Oomycota |
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Definition
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Which of the below are members of the Kingdom Fungi?
A. Net slime molds
B. Ascomycota
C. Acrasiomycota
D. Myxomycota
E. Oomycota |
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Definition
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Which belongs with Phylum Actinobacteria within Domain Bacteria?
A. Corynebacterium diphtheria
B. Mycobacterium leprae
C. Micrococcus luteus
D. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
E. A, B, and C |
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Definition
| A, B, and C (Corynebacterium diphtheria, Mycobacterium leprae, Micrococcus luteus) |
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If you study pathogens of plant, you will be studying a lot of...
A. Protozoa
B. Fungi
C. Bacteria
D. Archaea
E. Algae |
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Definition
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Which is grammatically correct?
A. Bacteria cause many diseases.
B. This bacteria can make you very sick.
C. Fungi is our friend.
D. This cocci has no septa.
E. A and B. |
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Definition
| Bacteria cause many diseases. |
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Fungi...
A. Are mostly obligate anaerobes.
B. Always have eukaryotic cells.
C. Produce chlorophyll and conduct photosynthesis under aerobic conditions.
D. A and B only. |
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Definition
| Always have eukaryotic cells. |
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Term
| Which CLASS contains the largest number of known species of bacteria? |
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Definition
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Term
| Prions are linked to the cause of chronic neurological disease in... |
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Definition
| Domestic animals and humans. |
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Term
| The etiological agent for fever blisters/cold sores are often harbored in a latent condition within... |
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Definition
| The trigeminal neural ganglia |
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Term
| The "water molds" of oomycota have been historically studied as fungi; however, they are now classified as algae because... |
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Definition
| They have cellulose cell walls |
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The nucleic acid contained in (upside-down 'y', i.e. lambda) virions is which of the below?
A. dsRNA
B. Covalently closed circular dsDNA
C. Linear dsDNA with cohesive ends
D. Circular ssDNA
E. Double stranded RNA |
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Definition
| Linear dsDNA with cohesive ends |
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Term
Which is a sequela of infection by herpes simplex 1?
A. Erectile dysfunction
B. Shingles
C. Recurrent fever blisters when you are stressed
D. Syphilis
E. Rheumatic fever |
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Definition
| Recurrent fever blisters when you are stressed |
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Term
| What is a sequela of chicken pox? |
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Definition
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Which term describes dematomycoses?
A. Superficial
B. Subcutaneous
C. Systemic
D. Tineas
E. Fulminating |
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Definition
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| The classic one-step growth curve experiment that revealed the time course of virus infection of a cell. Which is true about it? |
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Definition
| A, B, and D (performed by Delbruck and Ellis, dealt with bacteriophage, elucidates "burst size") |
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Term
| Which pathogen mediates prodigious secretion of electrolytes and water into the small intestine? |
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Definition
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The Epstein-Barr virus...
A. Has double-stranded DNA
B. Is a member of Herpesviridae
C. Causes mononucleosis i.e. kissing disease
D. Causes a cancer known as Burkitt's lymphoma
E. All of the above |
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Definition
| All of the above (double-stranded DNA, is a member of Herpesviridae, causes mononucleosis i.e. kissing disease, causes a cancer known as Burkitt's lymphoma) |
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Term
Plant virus pioneers:
A. Peyton Rous
B. Ivanovski, Stanley, Beijerinck
C. Twort and D'Herrelle
D. Marchall and Warren
E. Steven Lindow |
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Definition
| Ivanovski, Stanley, Beijerinck |
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Term
| Tobacco mosaic virus is not... |
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Definition
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Term
Which is characteristic of members of the Pseudomonas spp?
A. Polar flagella
B. Fluorescent soluble pigments released into media
C. Entner-Duodoroff
D. Gram-negative, non spore formers
E. All of the above |
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Definition
| All of the above (polar flagella, fluorescent soluble pigments released into media, Entner-Duodoroff, Gram-negative, non spore formers) |
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Term
| Renowned classical systematists for Kingdom Fungi: |
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Definition
| Constantine John Alexopoulos |
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Term
| Which term refers to an infective entity that has only nucleic acid? |
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Definition
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Term
Which of the below bacteria include most of the known sulfate-reducing prokaryotes?
A. Gammaproteobacteria
B. Deltaproteobacteria
C. Archaea
D. Epsilonproteobacteria
E. Actinobacteria |
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Definition
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Term
| Nobel laureate(s) for characterization of reverse transcriptase in retoviruses? |
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Definition
| Howard Temin, David Baltimore |
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Term
| Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 8, and human papillomavirus all... |
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Definition
| Are implicates as causes of human cancer |
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Term
| Causes of poliomyelitis, dengue fever, yellow fever, and rabies... |
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Definition
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Term
Microbes with chitin cell walls are...
A. Algae
B. Bacteria
C. Fungi
D. Protozoa
E. Viruses |
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Definition
| Bacteria...or [[eukarya]]? |
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Term
Etiological agents of sleeping sickness, malaria, and amebic dysentery?
A. Archaea
B. Bacteria
C. Eukarya
D. Non-cellular, infectious entities
E. None of the above |
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Definition
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Term
| Are infective entities mediated solely by a nucleic acid, i.e., no proteins or cells involved. |
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Definition
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Azotobacter vinelandii is...
A. Diazotroph
B. Cyst former
C. Member of phylum Proteobacteria
D. Peanut shaped
E. All of the above |
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Definition
| All of the above (Diazotroph, cyst former, member of Phylum Proteobacteria, peanut shaped) |
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Term
Leprosy, diphtheria, and tuberculosis are...
A. Pseudomonads
B. Phylum Actinobacteria
C. Enterobacteria
D. Yeasts
E. All gram negative |
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Definition
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Term
| Annually cause of most worldwide deaths? |
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Definition
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Term
Dictyostelium, Physarum...
A. Archaea
B. Bacteria
C. Algae
D. Social amebae/social protozoa
E. Viruses |
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Definition
| "Social amebae", or "social protozoa" |
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Term
Basidiomycota...
A. Include molds, yeasts, mushrooms/toadstools
B. Sac fungi
C. Sexual fungi
D. Club fungi
E. All except B |
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Definition
All except B (include molds, yeast, toadstools/mushrooms...sexual fungi...club fungi)
NOT sac fungi |
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Term
Aflatoxin, LSD, and other mycotoxins are found exclusively in...
A. Domain bacteria
B. Kingdom fungi
C. Domain archaea
D. Proteobacteria
E. Non-cellular, infectious entities |
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Definition
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Corynebacterium, Streptomyces, Mycobacterium are...
A. Enterobacteriaceae
B. Pseudomonadales
C. Phylum Ascomycots
D. Phylum Firmicutes
E. Phylum Actinobacteria |
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Definition
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Shigella, Salmonella, Serratia, Klebsiella, and Proteus are...
A. Pseudomonadales
B. Enterobacteriales
C. Phylum Ascomycota
D. Phylum Firmicutes
E. Phylum Actinobacteria |
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Definition
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Term
Low G+C, gram-positive, spore-forming obligate anaerobes...
A. Clostridium spp.
B. Escherichia spp.
C. Bacillus spp.
D. Ascomycota
E. Salmonella spp. |
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Definition
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Term
Azotobacter, Pseudomonas are..
A. Phylum Actinobacteria
B. Enterobacteriaceae
C. Phylum Ascomycota
D. Phylum Firmicutes
E. Pseudomonadales |
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Definition
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Propionibacterium...
A. Phylum Actinobacteria
B. Contributes to body odor
C. May cause acne
D. Contributes to cheese flavors
E. All of the above |
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Definition
| All of the above (Phylum Actinobacterium, contributes to body odor, may cause acne, contributes to cheese flavors |
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Term
| Developed genetically engineered "Ice-Minus" pseudomonads that protect against freezing damage in citrus crops. |
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Definition
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Term
| Which is the most common type of nucleic acid found in animal RNA viruses? |
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Definition
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Term
| Causes of parrot fever, trachoma, typhus fever, rocky mountain spotted fever, and an important venereal disease? |
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Definition
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Term
Which is the most serious case of human mycosis?
A. Superficial
B. Dermatophytic
C. Subcutaneous
D. Systemic
E. Tineas |
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Definition
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Term
Bdellovibrio bactivorus...
A. Preys on E. coli
B. Is a bacterium
C. Is an obligate intracellular parasite
D. Is a member of Class Gammaproteobacteria
E. Is all of the above except D |
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Definition
Is all of the above except D (Preys on E. coli, is a bacterium, is an obligate intracellular parasite)
NOT in Class Gammaproteobacteria |
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Term
Fungi with coenocytic hyphae...
A. Have no septa between cells
B. Are found in division Zygomycota
C. Have defined septa between cells
D. Are found in Divisions Ascomycota and Basidiomycota
E. Are A and B |
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Definition
| Both A and B (Have no septa between cells, are found in Division Zygomycota |
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Term
Causes tuberculosis, leprosy, and diphtheria.
A. Gram positive
B. High G+C rods
C. Low G+C
D. Eukarya
E. Both A and B |
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Definition
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Term
| Amebic dysentery is caused by... |
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Definition
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Term
Which causes a true food poisoning?
A. Shigella dysenteriae
B. Salmonella typhi
C. E. coli
D. Staphylococcus aureus
E. Vibrio cholerae |
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Definition
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Term
| Which category of microbe is grouped in classical taxonomic schemes based on mode of sexual reproduction? |
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Definition
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Term
| Which category of microbe is grouped in classical taxonomy based on its pigmentation? |
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Definition
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Term
Which gram-positive anaerobic rod causes a true food poisoning?
A. Clostridium botulinum
B. Bacillus anthracis
C. Salmonella spp.
D. Vibrio cholerae
E. Staphylococcus aurues |
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Definition
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Term
Hepatitis viruses B and C are typically transmitted via...
A. Polluted water
B. The serum of infected humans
C. Unprotected sex
D. Intravenous drug use
NOT polluted water |
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Definition
All except A (The serum of infected humans, unprotected sex, intravenous drug use)
NOT polluted water |
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Term
| Phycocyanin, phycoerythrin, and fucoxanthin are... |
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Definition
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Term
| T/F: No microorganisms produce melanin, the pigment that protects cells of humans from damage by UV radiation, |
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Definition
| False - some soil bacteria do. |
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Term
| T/F: Corynebacterium diphtheria is not pathogenic unless it is lysogenic |
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Definition
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Term
T/F: Viruses that infect animal cells typically enter the host cell with their capsid intact. This is analogous to the way bacteriophages infect bacteria.
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Definition
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Term
T/F: Viruses with helical symmetry have capsids composed of proteins.
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Definition
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Term
| T/F: Exotoxins produced by gram-positive bacteria are typically relatively heat labile proteins. |
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Definition
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Term
T/F: the RNA of "plus-stranded" RNA viruses can function in a manner analogous to RNA, i.e., it can be translated directly into polypeptides.
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Definition
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Term
| T/F: Measles, rabies, and poliomyelitis are most effectively treated with multiple antibiotics. |
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Definition
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Term
| T/F: The beta prophage within a member of Phylum Actinobacteria encodes diphtheria toxin. |
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Definition
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Term
| T/F: Algae are important contributors to bioavailable nitrogen as many have nitrogenase and fix nitrogen by photosynthetic processes. |
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Definition
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Term
The yeast-mold cycle describes which of the below?
A. Dermatotrophic mycoses
B. Beer production
C. Changes in morphology between single-cell and filamentous fungi
D. Cycle between mushrooms and toadstools
E. Recurring vaginal yeast infection |
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Definition
| Changes in morphology between single-cell and filamentous fungi |
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Term
Fungi in general tend to...
A. Prefer lower pH than do most bacteria.
B. Tolerate high osmotic environments such as syrups and honey.
C. Be aerobic heterotrophic saprophytes.
D. Be thermophiles or hyperthermophiles.
E. A, B, and C |
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Term
Fungi and algae can reproduce asexually by numerous mechanisms, or can be cultured from thallus fragments. One term that applies to all of these mechanisms is
A. Conidia
B. Arthrospores
C. Propagules
D. Zoospores
E. Chlamydospores |
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Definition
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Term
| Dermatophytic fungi obtain carbon and nitrogen principally by what? |
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Definition
| Digestion of keratin, the principal protein of skin, nails and hair. |
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Term
Which division is studied by both mycologists and phycologists?
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Definition
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Term
| Some fungi change between a single-celled form and a filamentous form. This is called... |
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Definition
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Term
| Which is/are not found in algae? |
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Definition
All except A (Carbon storage as glycogen, Alcoholic fermentation, chitin cell walls)
DOES use the Calvin Cycle |
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Term
| LNAPL pollutants that are in an aquifer... |
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Definition
| Float on the surface of the water. |
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Term
| Diethyl ether...what does it do? |
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Definition
| B and D only (Inactivates some animal viruses, inactivates viruses with lipid envelope outside their protein capsid) |
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Term
| Utilized surface antigens of streptococci to develop groups and types useful in clinical situations? |
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Definition
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Term
| Which use of flagellar and O-antigens has been applied to clinical identification, epidemiological tracing and taxonomic classification of enteropathogenic bacteria? |
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Definition
| Salmonella spp. by Kauffman-White |
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Term
Which produces a protein exotoxin?
A. Clostridium botulinum
B. Clostridium tetani
C. Corynebacterium diphtheria
D. All of the above
E. A and B only |
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Definition
| All of the above (Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium tetani, Corynebacterium diphtheria) |
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Term
| During the course of T4 phage infection of E. coli, which occurs last? |
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Definition
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Term
| Presence of an intracellular gram-negative diplococcus in your penile or vaginal exudates strongly suggests that... |
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Definition
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Term
| Presence of a gram-positive, acid fast rod in your sputum suggest that... |
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Definition
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Term
| Which class(es) within the Proteobacteria include(s) bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrite to nitrate? |
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Definition
All except D (Alphaproteobacteria, betaproteobacteria, gammaproteobacteria)
NOT Deltaproteobacteria |
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Term
Which is grammatically incorrect?
A. Staphylococci cause a lot of disease.
B. Enterococci are used as an indicator of fecal contamination in marine waters.
C. This bacteria is used as a food source in China.
D. There are fungi among us.
E. The genera of Escherichia and Salmonella are never pathogenic. |
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Definition
| C. This bacteria is used as a food source in China. |
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Term
| Avian sarcoma virus, Rous sarcoma virus, and human immunodeficiency virus... |
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Definition
| All of the above (All have reverse transcriptase, all are retroviruses, all have RNA genomes) |
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