Microbiology Midterm Exam

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Microbiology Midterm

By Melanie Daleo

Labelling

Match the correct term or description with the Gram - (negative) bacteria.

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Periplasm

Lipoprotein

Lipopolysaccharide

Outer Membrane

Peptidoglycan

Cytoplasmic Membrane

Porin Protein

Labelling

Match the correct term or description with the Gram + (positive) bacteria.

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Cytoplasmic Membrane

Gel-like material

N-Acetyl Glucosamine

Teichoic Acid

Peptidoglycan

N-Acetyl Muramic Acid

Match

Match the following Microbiologists with the correct discovery.

• Demonstrated that maggots were the offspring of flies, not products of spontaneous generation.

• Successful efforts using carbolic acid (phenol) to reduce postsurgical infection caused his techniques to become a standard medical practice.

• Established a protocol to determine the cause of infectious disease.

• First used the term “cells” in 1665 to describe the small chambers within cork that he observed under a microscope of his own design.

• Developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax, used swan-necked flasks to disprove spontaneous generation

Francesco Redi

Joseph Lister

Robert Koch

Robert Hooke

Louis Pasteur

• Francesco Redi

• Joseph Lister

• Robert Koch

• Robert Hooke

• Louis Pasteur

Match

Match the following Microbiologists with the correct discovery.

• Best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

• Used a vaccination procedure to protect individuals from smallpox.

• Provided evidence that H. pylori is the causative agent of stomach ulcers.

• Showed a disease of silkworms was caused by a fungus.

• Demonstrated that the Great Potato Blight of Ireland was caused by a water mold.

Alexander Fleming

Edward Jenner

Barry Marshall

Agostini Bassi

MJ Berkley

• Alexander Fleming

• Edward Jenner

• Barry Marshall

• Agostini Bassi

• MJ Berkley

Match

Match the eukaryote with the correct description.

• Eukaryotes that are nonphotosynthetic and motile

• Fungi that includes mushrooms and puffballs

• Move by pseudopodia, live in marine environments, some have shells

• Causes malaria; vector is a mosquito

• Protist with shells made of silica

Zooplankton

Basidiomycota

Sarcodina

Plasmodium

Diatoms

• Zooplankton

• Basidiomycota

• Sarcodina

• Plasmodium

• Diatoms

Match

Match the eukaryote with the correct description.

• Hookworms

• Appear as fuzzy growths and cause serious diseases in plants

• Cause of African Sleeping Sickness; transmitted by tse-tse fly

• Waterborne protist that causes diarrhea and dehydration

• Red seaweed

Nematodes

Oomycota

Trypanosomes

Giardia

Rhodophyta

• Nematodes

• Oomycota

• Trypanosomes

• Giardia

• Rhodophyta

Drag and Drop

Select all that apply: Which of the following are classes within the phylum Proteobacteria?

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Alphaproteobacteria

Omegaproteobacteria

Betaproteobacteria

Deltaproteobacteria

Match

Match the virus detection method to its proper description: 

• using antibodies to detect viral antigens (proteins)

• isolating antibodies from a patient, adding them to a virus, and seeing if the virus can clump erythrocytes 

• using primers to amplify DNA

• making cDNA from RNA

EIA

Hemagglutinin

PCR

RT-PCR

• EIA

• Hemagglutinin

• PCR

• RT-PCR

Match

Match the following concepts with their explanation.

• The smaller molecules that act as building blocks for macromolecules.

• The primary source of energy storage in the form of starch and glycogen.

• Lipids that contain long-chain hydrocarbons terminated with a carboxylic acid functional group.

• The molecules derived from amino acids that can function as structural components of cells and subcellular entities.

• Macromolecules formed by linking together a great number of identical, or very similar, smaller organic molecules.

Monomers

Carbohydrates

Fatty acids

Proteins

Polymers

• Monomers

• Carbohydrates

• Fatty acids

• Proteins

• Polymers

Multiple Choice

Gram positive cells stain ________.

• blue

• pink

• purple

• green

Multiple Choice

True or False: All microorganisms are harmful

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

An organism that gets energy by using dead organisms, nonliving materials, or waste as food.

• Decomposer

• Microorganism

• Microscope

• Beneficial

Multiple Select

Pick any options that include components that can be found in Viruses.

• DNA

• RNA

• Cell wall

• Capsid

• Envelope

Multiple Select

The 3 Domains include:

• Protista

• Bacteria

• Archaea

• Eukarya

• Plantae

Multiple Choice

The bacteria seen in the picture is

• bacillus
• coccus
• spirilla

Multiple Choice

These bacteria are

• Gram-positive

• Gram-negative

• Gram-neutral

• Gram-purple

Multiple Choice

A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell.

• Bacteria
• Virus
• Protist
• Fungi

Multiple Choice

Antibiotics can be used to treat a viral infection.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Are microorganisms helpful or harmful?

• Helpful
• Harmful
• Both
• Neither

Match

Match the correct name of the bacteria with the correct picture.

Streptobacillus

Staphylococcus

Diplobacillus

Spirochete

Diplococcus

• Streptobacillus

• Staphylococcus

• Diplobacillus

• Spirochete

• Diplococcus

Multiple Select

Pick all of the answer choices that describe Bacteria.

• Prokaryotic

• Eukaryotic

• Reproduce using Binary Fission

• Cannot reproduce

• Cell wall made of chitin