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Microbiology Midterm Exam

Microbiology Midterm Exam

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Biology

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MS-LS1-1, HS-LS1-6, HS-LS2-6

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Melanie Daleo

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Microbiology Midterm

By Melanie Daleo

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Labelling

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

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Cytoplasmic Membrane

Peptidoglycan

Periplasm

Porin Protein

Lipoprotein

Outer Membrane

Lipopolysaccharide

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Labelling

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

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Cytoplasmic Membrane

Gel-like material

Peptidoglycan

N-Acetyl Glucosamine

N-Acetyl Muramic Acid

Teichoic Acid

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Drag and Drop

Select all that apply: Which of the following are classes within the phylum Proteobacteria?
Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above
Alphaproteobacteria
Omegaproteobacteria
Betaproteobacteria
Deltaproteobacteria

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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

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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

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Multiple Choice

Gram positive cells stain ________.

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blue

2

pink

3

purple

4

green

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Multiple Choice

True or False: All microorganisms are harmful

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True

2

False

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Multiple Choice

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

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Decomposer

2

Microorganism

3

Microscope

4

Beneficial

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Multiple Select

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

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DNA

2

RNA

3

Cell wall

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Capsid

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Envelope

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Multiple Select

The 3 Domains include:

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Protista

2

Bacteria

3

Archaea

4

Eukarya

5

Plantae

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Multiple Choice

Question image
The bacteria seen in the picture is
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bacillus
2
coccus
3
spirilla

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Multiple Choice

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These bacteria are
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Gram-positive

2

Gram-negative

3

Gram-neutral

4

Gram-purple

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Multiple Choice

A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell.
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Bacteria
2
Virus
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Protist
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Fungi

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Multiple Choice

Antibiotics can be used to treat a viral infection.
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True
2
False

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Multiple Choice

Question image
Are microorganisms helpful or harmful?
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Helpful
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Harmful
3
Both
4
Neither

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Match

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

Streptobacillus

Staphylococcus

Diplobacillus

Spirochete

Diplococcus

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Multiple Select

Pick all of the answer choices that describe Bacteria.

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Prokaryotic

2

Eukaryotic

3

Reproduce using Binary Fission

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Cannot reproduce

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Cell wall made of chitin

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