Pre Exam Quiz 1, Biology & Microbiology - Molecular And Microbiology

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What is the name for organisms with the ability to oxidize organic chemicals to yield energy?

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Nitrogen fixation is an energy-yielding process.

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Mycorrhizae

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In which of the following regions in the host bacterium are you most likely to find Bdellovibrio?

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Which of the following terms is used to describe a synthetic DNA fragment?

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The virus repressor protein provides immunity to infection by the same type of virus

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Certain cancer cells have ABC transport molecules at the cell surface. These transporters use energy from ATP to move chemotherapeutic agents out of the cell. Which of the following do you think these transporters are most closely related to?

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Site within Fc region

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The abundance of cyanobacterial mats has greatly declined due to the evolution of

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Nitrogen is

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Which of the following pairs is mismatched?

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Which of the following types of microbes might be found in a boiling hot spring?

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A chemical reaction in which a water molecule is a reactant is known as a (dehydration/hydrolysis) reaction

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Generation time can be defined as the:

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Agglutination tests are used to detect soluble antigens

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When microbes live independently but cooperate and share nutrients, it is called ________.

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The deliberate removal of genetic material from one organism and its subsequent transfer into the genome of another organism is a specific technique called ________.

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Rhabditiform larvae measuring 275 m with a long buccal capsule and a small genital primordium was identified as hookworm. Which one of the following statements explains this discrepancy?

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Amino acids are converted to substrates of the Citric acid cycle by (beta-oxidation/deamination/transamination).

20

. Identification of the various strains of N. meningitidis is through

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Which feature or structure of Bacillus anthracis enables it to evade death by macrophages and grow inside macrophages?

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Safety considerations in the Microbiology laboratory are crucial for protecting personnel. However, it is also important to think about “protecting” the microorganisms in the experiment that you are performing and not contaminating your culture. Lab workers who are carriers, or who are sick, can contaminate cultures. A pure culture could also be contaminated with another lab strain. What precautions must be taken to prevent contamination of a pure culture?

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A toxoid is an attenuated form of a toxin that retains both its antigenicity and toxicity

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Injection of a single antigen usually results in production of

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The most prevalent cause of wine spoilage is the presence of

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According to the animation, which of the following makes mRNA from the information stored in a DNA template?

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The organelle responsible for harvesting light as an energy source for photosynthesis is the ________.

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Fungi can form functional associations with which of the following?

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Which of the following is not a required characteristic of antigens from microbial pathogens that might be used in vaccine production?

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Which of the following is true of chemokines?

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What is the key factor determining whether or not attenuation will occur when transcription of the E. coli trp operon has been initiated?

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Agar is an important component of media because

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The degree of turbidity in a broth culture correlates to the amount of cell growth.

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Sulfanilamide is an antimicrobial drug that mimics the shape of an important substrate for a particular bacterial enzyme, thereby inhibiting the enzyme. This type of inhibition is known as

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A measurement of a microbe is reported as 1 × 10-6 m, also known as

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The THI-element is part of the operon that controls synthesis of thymine in mRNA.

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Which of the following pairs is mismatched?

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An eight-year-old girl in rural Wisconsin has chills, headache, and fever and reports having been bitten by mosquitoes. How would you confirm your diagnosis of arboviral encephalitis?

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Candida albicans can establish opportunistic infections of the

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The microbiologist receives a sputum specimen that upon preliminary Gram staining review of direct smear, contains numerous squamous epithelial cells and an excessive amount of contami-nating normal flora. Based on the microbiologists knowledge, the microbiologist rejects the spe-cimen and requests a new sample. The physician insists that the microbiologist culture the sample as received. The

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The abbreviation "GAS" refers to pathogenic strains of Staphylococcus

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Human pathogens of the genus Encephalitozoon belong to the ________.

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A change in one partner in a close relationship that leads to a change in the other partner is

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Specimen collection

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Which of the following is not true of signal integration by more than one transcription factor?

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When a young, vigorously growing culture of bacteria is transferred to fresh medium of the same composition, the lag phase is usually short or absent.

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A group of interacting serum proteins that provide a nonspecific defense mechanism is

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Almost a century after Edward Jenner introduced successful vaccination, Louis Pasteur developed vaccine(s) against

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In which category of media would blood agar best fit?

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Which of these methods can be used to determine the number of viable microorganisms in a sample?

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Both Streptococcus pneumoniae and Cryptococcus neoformans are causes of meningitis, and both are diagnosed by microscopic observation. How are they distinguished in the microscope?

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If you knew the sequence of nucleotides within a gene, which one of the following could you determine with the most accuracy?

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Prions

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Inactivated immunizing agents are prepared by treatment with

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A "summer cold" that lasts for weeks and is characterized by sore throat, mild fever, dry cough, and malaise may be (pneumococcal/staphylococcal/walking) pneumonia

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A bacterial colony growing on Endo agar that appears colorless or slightly pink is a ________.

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Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding patients with AIDS?

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Diseases can be controlled through immunization even if the percentage of the population that is immunized is less than 100% because

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