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MICRO-PARA QUIZ

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

(a)   is the study of microorganisms usually less than 1mm in diameter which requires some form of magnification to be seen clearly.

2.

Which among the choices is an acellular organism?

a)

Bacteria

b)

Fungi

c)

Viruses

d)

Helminths

3.

Cell wall of bacteria are made up of

a)

Pseudomurin

b)

Peptidoglycan

c)

Chitin

4.

Fungi can be unicellular or multicellular. Which among the choices is unicellular?

a)

Yeast

b)

Molds

c)

Mushroom

5.

Fungi can be unicellular or multicellular. Which among the choices is multicellular?

a)

Yeast

b)

Molds & mushrooms

6.

The cell wall of Algae is made up of:

a)

Chitin

b)

Cellulose

c)

Peptidoglycan

d)

Pseudomurin

7.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of bacteria?

a)

bacteria are prokaryotic

b)

they are multicellular

c)

they have a circular dna

d)

they reproduce through binary fission

8.

Which one is not a characteristic if Viroids?

a)

short strand of circular RNA

b)

No capsid

c)

single-stranded piece of DNA

d)

self replicates after infecting host cells

9.

(a)   are pathogenic proteins (no genetic material) that corrupt proteins and lead to the formation of plaques.

10.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy “mad cow disease” is a disease caused by

a)

bacteria

b)

viruses

c)

prions

d)

helminth

11.

What are the universally accepted cell theories?

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12.

The person to coined the term "cells"

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Robert Brown

c)

Theodor Schwann

d)

Rudolf Virchow

13.

He was the first person to discover microorganisms specifically protist and bacteria.

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Robert Brown

c)

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

d)

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

14.

Fully-developed infectious viral particles are called (a)  

15.

(a)   is a protein sheath that protects the viral genetic material

16.

A capsid of composed of protein units called (a)  

17.

Based on capsid shapes, the Ebola virus is under what type of capsid shape?

(a)  

18.

(a)   have structures that do not conform to either of the helical or polyhedral capsid shapes.

19.

What capsid shape is exhibited by the Marburg virus?

a)

Helical

b)

Polyhedral

c)

Complex

20.

a type of virus that only infects bacteria

a)

Viroid

b)

Prion

c)

bacteriophages

21.

All viral replication schemes follow the same basic series of steps. What are these basic five steps?

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22.

The hypothesis that living organisms arise from preexisting life.

a)

Biogenesis

b)

Spontaneous generation

23.

When using the crystal violet staining technique, gram-positive bacteria, what color do you expect to see under the microscope?

a)

Purple

b)

Pink

c)

Red

24.

When using the crystal violet staining technique, gram-negative bacteria, what color do you expect to see under the microscope?

a)

Pink

b)

Purple

c)

Red