Microorganism MCQs (ALL)

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Questão 1

Questão
A microbe growing in a functioning refrigerator is probably a:
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  • Psychrophile
  • Mesophile
  • Thermophile
  • Hyperthermophile

Questão 2

Questão
A microbe isolated from deep in the ocean could best be characterized as a:
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  • Psychrophile.
  • Mesophile.
  • Barophile and psychrophile
  • Barophile.

Questão 3

Questão
Addition of blood to a culture medium only allows the haemolytic bacteria that grow on the plate to be picked out. This is an example of a:
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  • Selective medium
  • Differential medium
  • Complex medium
  • Synthetic medium

Questão 4

Questão
All organisms require the following macronutrients:
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  • Potassium, magnesium, zinc
  • Phosphorus, cobalt, manganese
  • Calcium, potassium, zinc
  • Phosphorus, potassium, magnesium

Questão 5

Questão
Almost all medically important microbes are:
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  • Chemolithoautotrophs
  • Photoorganoheterotrophs
  • Photolithoautotrophs
  • Chemoorganoheterotrophs

Questão 6

Questão
An extremophilic microbe is one which:
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  • Can survive dry conditions
  • Can grow only when there is a mixture of stress parameters (e.g. high temperatures and low pH)
  • Can grow optimally under extreme conditions
  • Becomes dormant under extreme conditions

Questão 7

Questão
Biochemical synthesis of new cell material is called:
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  • Metabolism.
  • Anabolism.
  • Catabolism.
  • Synthatabolism.

Questão 8

Questão
Carl Woese of the University of Illinois and his collaborators identified two major branches of prokaryotic evolution. What was the basis for dividing prokaryotes into two domains?
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  • Microscopic examination of the staining characteristics of the cell wall
  • Metabolic characteristics such as the production of methane gas
  • Ecological characteristics such as the ability to survive extreme temperatures
  • Molecular characteristics such as ribosomal RNA sequences

Questão 9

Questão
Carrier mediated transport is necessary when:
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  • Diffusion will not allow adequate amounts of a substance to enter the cell
  • Movement into the cell is against a concentration gradient
  • The level of nutrients in nature is very low
  • All of the above

Questão 10

Questão
Catalase is indispensable to:
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  • Obligate anaerobes
  • Aerotolerant anaerobes
  • Aerobes
  • All of the above

Questão 11

Questão
Chemical energy is released when organic or inorganic compounds are:
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  • Reduced
  • Incorporated into larger molecules
  • Synthesized
  • Oxidized

Questão 12

Questão
Denitrification is a process by which:
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  • Nitrogen gas is fixed by microorganisms
  • Nitrates are reduced to nitrogen gas
  • Nitrates are reduced to ammonia
  • Nitrogen is assimilated into cellular material

Questão 13

Questão
Incorporation of atmospheric N2 to NH4+ occurs via the process of:
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  • Nitrogen fixation.
  • Nitrification.
  • Denitrification.
  • None of the above, atmospheric N2 cannot be incorporated into NH4+

Questão 14

Questão
MacConkey agar selects for:
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  • Gram-negative bacteria
  • Gram-positive bacteria
  • Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria
  • Haemolytic microorganisms

Questão 15

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Modes of obtaining nutrition, used by at least some bacteria, include all of the following EXCEPT:
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  • Chemolithoautrophy
  • Photolithoautrophy
  • Chemoheteroautrophy
  • Chemoorganoheterotrophy

Questão 16

Questão
Photoautotophs use:
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  • Light as an energy source and CO2 as a carbon source
  • Light as an energy and methane as a carbon source
  • CO2 as both an energy source and a carbon source
  • All of the above

Questão 17

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Siderophores:
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  • Act as a solvent for iron and transport it into the cells
  • Are a key component of cytochromes
  • Help maintain osmotic balance in seawater microbes
  • Develop when errors in membrane synthesis occur

Questão 18

Questão
The cardinal temperatures are the:
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  • Minimum temperatures
  • Optimum temperatures
  • Maximum temperatures
  • Minimum, optimum, and maximum temperatures taken together

Questão 19

Questão
The CORRECT way to write this microbe’s name is
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  • bacillus subtilis (italics)
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Bacillus Subtilis (italics)
  • Bacillus subtilis (italics)

Questão 20

Questão
The signature sequence is used extensively in the:
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  • Phylogenetic probe
  • Reclassification of misclassified organisms
  • Defining of a specific group within a domain
  • All of the above

Questão 21

Questão
The size (as determined by the sedimentation factor) of the most useful RNA molecule for prokaryotic evolutionary studies is:
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  • 5S
  • 16S
  • 18S
  • 23S

Questão 22

Questão
Which of the following is a macronutrient?
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  • Manganese
  • Magnesium
  • Zinc
  • Cobalt

Questão 23

Questão
Which of the following is both a selective and a differential medium?
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  • Nutrient broth.
  • MacConkey agar.
  • Blood agar.
  • Tryptic soya broth.

Questão 24

Questão
Which of the following forms of oxygen are generally toxic to living organisms?
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  • Superoxide anion
  • Hydrogen peroxide
  • Hydroxyl radical
  • All of the above

Questão 25

Questão
Which of these environmental factors influence microbial growth?
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  • pH
  • Water potential
  • Oxygen
  • All of the above

Questão 26

Questão
Which prokaryotes should be expected to be most strongly resistant to plasmolysis in hypertonic environments?
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  • Extreme halophiles
  • Extreme thermophiles
  • Methanogens
  • Nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in root nodules

Questão 27

Questão
A Wild-type bacterial strain is:
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  • A strain with a limited number of mutations
  • An arbitrarily chosen strain
  • A strain without plasmids
  • A strain which is sensitive to antibiotics

Questão 28

Questão
Bacterial genes:
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  • Are stretches of double stranded RNA
  • Have introns
  • Are often organised into operons
  • Are always present in two copies

Questão 29

Questão
Bacterial Genomics is:
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  • A study of the entire bacterial genome
  • Sequencing of the bacterial chromosome
  • A study of essential genes and genetic elements
  • Sequencing of DNA samples obtained from the environment

Questão 30

Questão
Genetic recombination is a:
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  • Change of DNA structure caused by radiation
  • Amplification of DNA molecules followed by cell division
  • Physical exchange between DNA molecules
  • Process resulting in protein synthesis

Questão 31

Questão
Mutations are:
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  • Chemical modifications of DNA or RNA molecules
  • Any changes of bacterial genome as compared with a wild type
  • Events resulting from genetic exchange between bacterial plasmids
  • Sequencing errors

Questão 32

Questão
Post-genomic techniques include:
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  • Proteomics
  • Use of restriction enzymes
  • Gene sequencing
  • Studies of signal-transduction pathways

Questão 33

Questão
The bacterial genome is:
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  • Mostly diploid but includes several haploid regions
  • A single circular DNA molecule
  • Mostly haploid
  • A double stranded RNA molecule

Questão 34

Questão
Which one of the following sentences correctly describes the science of Metagenomics?
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  • Metagenomics is a genome level study of the whole microbial community
  • Metagenomics is a genomics of industrially and medically important bacteria
  • Metagenomics is a study of gene expression
  • Metagenomics is a comparative analysis of the sequenced microbial genomes

Questão 35

Questão
With regards to bacterial plasmids which statement is the correct one?
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  • A plasmid is a regulatory gene
  • A plasmid is a short RNA molecule
  • A plasmid is an extra chromosomal DNA molecule
  • A plasmid is a non coding region found in some bacterial genomes

Questão 36

Questão
A culture of E. coli is diluted by a factor of 10-6 and, after plating out 100 μl on an agar plate, 63 colonies grew after incubation at 37oC overnight. The original culture therefore contained how many viable E coli cells per ml?
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  • 6.3 x 10(7)
  • 6.3 x 10(8)
  • 6.3 x 10(6)
  • 6.3 x 10(5)

Questão 37

Questão
Bacterial flagella bring about cell motion by which mechanism?
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  • Wave-like movement of the flagellum
  • Rotation of the cell
  • Rotation of the flagellum in one direction only
  • Rotation of the flagellum that is reversible

Questão 38

Questão
Koch’s postulates most CORRECTLY relate to which one of the following statements?
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  • The isolation of a bacterium in culture from an infection alone indicates that it caused the disease
  • Isolation and cultivation of a microorganism from a diseased animal, then inoculation into another healthy animal to cause the same disease, followed by re-isolation of the same microorganism, indicates that it is the cause of the disease
  • The observation of virus particles in tissue from a human with disease indicates that it has caused the disease
  • Inoculation of a bacterium into an animal and observation of disease alone indicates that it is the cause of the disease observed

Questão 39

Questão
Pasteur is attributed with which one of the following discoveries?
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  • Was the first to see microorganisms under a microscope
  • First to discover and use agar
  • That there could be life without air
  • The first chemical antibiotics

Questão 40

Questão
The length of a typical E. coli cell is approximately?
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  • 20 μm
  • 2 μm
  • 200 nm
  • 20nm

Questão 41

Questão
With regard to the differences between bacterial and eukaryotic cells which statement is the correct one?
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  • Bacterial cells do not contain mitochondria
  • Bacterial cells are usually larger than eukaryote cells
  • Bacteria do not contain a chromosome
  • Bacterial cells are not sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics

Questão 42

Questão
With respect to differences between members of the archaeal and bacterial domains/kingdoms, which is the CORRECT statement?
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  • Both have peptidoglycan in their cell walls
  • Only some Archaea are capable of methanogenesis
  • Archaea are sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics
  • Bacteria have similar RNA polymerase to that of Archaea

Questão 43

Questão
Which statement is correct with respect to the E.coli chromosome?
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  • It is negatively supercoiled
  • It is positively supercoiled
  • There are typically several origins of replication
  • It consists of over 50 million base pairs

Questão 44

Questão
Which statement is correct with respect to Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)?
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  • LPS is found in Gram positive cells
  • LPS is found in Gram negative cells in the cytoplasmic membrane
  • LPS is found in the outer-membrane of Gram negative cells
  • LPS is associated with all bacterial cells

Questão 45

Questão
Which statement is correct with respect to peptidoglycan?
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  • There are multiple molecules of peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls
  • Only Gram positive cells possess peptidoglycan
  • There is only a single molecule of peptidoglycan in a bacterial cell wall
  • Peptidoglycan is only found in Gram negative cell walls

Questão 46

Questão
Anthrophilic dermatophytes (fungi causing cutaneous infections of humans) are primarily associated with:
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  • Soil
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Humans

Questão 47

Questão
Asexual reproduction in the Mastigomycotina (e.g. Phytophthora spp.) results in the formation of:
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  • Sporangia
  • Oospores
  • Zygospores
  • Conidia

Questão 48

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Black sigatoka is a:
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  • Fungal root disease of bananas
  • Fungal foliar disease of bananas
  • Fungal fruit disease of apples
  • Fungal foliar disease of potatoes

Questão 49

Questão
Fungal growth and cell division is NOT normally accompanied by:
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  • Biomass acquisition
  • Reduced vitality
  • Nucleic-acid replication
  • Enhanced ability to compete with other microbial species

Questão 50

Questão
Fungi primarily contribute to soil and plant health by:
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  • Degrading sand particles to release Si
  • Facilitating desiccation of water-logged soils
  • Degrading organic matter and releasing nutrients
  • Preventing bacterial growth

Questão 51

Questão
Fungi tend to live at interfaces. Which of these statements is untrue:
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  • This can be where nutrients are most concentrated
  • Solid surfaces may provide anchorage
  • Other microbes, that leak useful metabolites, may inhabit such niches
  • There is typically less water on physical surfaces and fungi avoid water

Questão 52

Questão
In the Earth’s biosphere most fungal biomass and diversity is found:
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  • In the oceans
  • In soils
  • Under glaciers
  • In the atmosphere

Questão 53

Questão
One factor that is NOT used to prevent or reduce fungal spoilage of processed foods is:
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  • Addition of benzene
  • Low water-activity
  • Refrigeration
  • Heat-sterilization

Questão 54

Questão
Organisms belonging to the genus Phytophthora are:
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  • True fungi
  • Fungus-like organisms
  • Slime moulds
  • Rusts

Questão 55

Questão
Phytophthora infestans is a fungus-like organism which:
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  • Causes disease of a wide range of woody hosts
  • Causes potato blight
  • Causes ringworm
  • Causes black sigatoka disease of banana

Questão 56

Questão
Phytophthora ramorum is the causal pathogen of:
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  • Potato blight
  • Sudden Oak Death
  • Coffee rust
  • Ash dieback

Questão 57

Questão
‘Necrosis’ is a symptom of infection of a plant with a pathogenic organism. Necrosis is:
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  • Yellowing of infected or surrounding tissue
  • Uncontrolled cell division resulting in the formation of a gall
  • Death of infected or surrounding cells
  • Premature leaf fall

Questão 58

Questão
Saprophytic activity is essential for the health of the biosphere because:
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  • It facilitates nutrient cycling and waste degradation
  • It kills host organisms and thereby averts overpopulation
  • It facilitates species evolution via endosymbiosis
  • It involves mineralization of inorganic rocks in the lithosphere

Questão 59

Questão
Secondary symptoms of infections of plants by pathogens:
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  • Occur at some distance from the point of infection
  • Normally occur close to the site of active infection
  • Are an ideal place to isolate the causal organism
  • Never occur at the same time as primary symptoms

Questão 60

Questão
Systems biology approaches to the study of fungal cells do NOT necessarily involve:
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  • Generation of data from biological experiments
  • Mathematical quantification of changes in cell components
  • Creation of a model of the cellular system in silico
  • Creation of a conceptual model based on philosophical techniques

Questão 61

Questão
The symptom ‘chlorosis’ which develops when some fungi infect plants is due to:
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  • Cell death
  • Nutrient imbalance
  • Impaired photosynthesis
  • Excess plant hormones

Questão 62

Questão
The symptom ‘hyperplasia’ in plants caused by a fungal infection is due to:
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  • Abnormal cell enlargement
  • Downward growth of petioles
  • Uncontrolled cell division
  • Restriction of water transport

Questão 63

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a correct statement about true fungi
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  • True fungi are eukaryotic
  • All true fungi are multi-cellular
  • True fungi are heterotrophic
  • Most true fungi have chitin cell walls

Questão 64

Questão
Which of the following is NOT an alternative name for cutaneous fungal infections of humans:
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  • Superficial mycoses
  • Dermatophytes
  • Mycetoma
  • Ringworms

Questão 65

Questão
Which of the following is NOT part of the plant disease triangle:
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  • Susceptible host
  • Climate change
  • Active pathogen
  • Suitable environment

Questão 66

Questão
Which of the following organisms is NOT a true fungus (i.e. it is classified in the Kingdom Protoctista):
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  • Phytophthora infestans
  • Botrytis cinerea
  • Agaricus bisporus
  • Taphrina deformans

Questão 67

Questão
Which of the following statements is NOT true about rust fungi?
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  • They are obligate pathogens
  • They are host specific pathogens
  • They have an active saprophytic phase
  • They form basidiospores as part of their life cycle

Questão 68

Questão
Which of these statements is untrue?
Responda
  • Some species of yeasts are highly tolerant to ethanol stress
  • Some species of fungi are extremely xerophilic
  • Many fungi are more tolerant to water stress than any bacterial species
  • Fungi can grow over the entire pH range from 0 to 14

Questão 69

Questão
Zoophilic dermatophytes are:
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  • normally associated with animals and humans
  • normally only associated with humans
  • mainly associated with the soil
  • mainly associated with contaminated water

Questão 70

Questão
Modification of RNA polymerase confers bacterial resistance to:
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  • Beta-lactam antibiotics
  • Rifampicin
  • Quinolone antibiotics
  • Metronidazole

Questão 71

Questão
The Bacille-Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is:
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  • Heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Attenuated live Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium bovis
  • Attenuated live Mycobacterium bovis

Questão 72

Questão
The antibiotic rifampicin interferes with which of the following?
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  • Peptidoglycan synthesis
  • DNA gyrase
  • Lipid synthesis
  • RNA polymerase

Questão 73

Questão
Which one of the following infectious diseases has been eradicated from the human population?
Responda
  • Plague
  • Leprosy
  • Small pox
  • Polio

Questão 74

Questão
Which of the following is a bacterial infection?
Responda
  • Whooping cough
  • Polio
  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Malaria

Questão 75

Questão
Which of the following is a host component important in specific immune recognition of extracellular microbes?
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  • Antigen
  • Antibody
  • Phagocyte
  • Lipopolysaccharide

Questão 76

Questão
Which of the following is NOT an acquired mechanism of antibiotic resistance in bacteria?
Responda
  • Beta-lactamase production
  • Efflux pump antibiotic export
  • Lack of peptidoglycan
  • RNA polymerase single nucleotide change

Questão 77

Questão
Which of the following is only transmitted by direct person-to-person contact?
Responda
  • Malaria
  • Plague
  • Gonorrhoea
  • Tuberculosis

Questão 78

Questão
Which of the following is transmitted via the faecal-oral-route?
Responda
  • Malaria
  • Typhoid
  • Plague
  • Meningitis

Questão 79

Questão
Which of the following is primarily a respiratory pathogen?
Responda
  • Vibrio cholera
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Salmonella typhi
  • Mycobacterium leprae

Questão 80

Questão
Which of the following is transmitted to humans by arthropods?
Responda
  • Tuberculosis
  • Malaria
  • Cholera
  • Typhoid

Questão 81

Questão
Which one of the following diseases is NOT caused by an infectious agent?
Responda
  • Stomach ulcer
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Cervical cancer
  • Liver cancer

Questão 82

Questão
All viruses:
Responda
  • Enter cells by receptor-mediated endocytosis
  • Replicate their genomes in the nucleus of the cell
  • Replicate their genomes in the cytoplasm of the cell
  • Surround their progeny genomes with capsid proteins inside infected cells

Questão 83

Questão
Mature virus particles (Virions) ALWAYS contain:
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  • non-structural proteins
  • a protease enzyme
  • a DNA or RNA genome
  • a reverse transcriptase

Questão 84

Questão
Poliovirus:
Responda
  • Has a double-stranded DNA genome
  • Has a capsid that is composed of 240 copies of a single protein
  • Replicates primarily in the upper respiratory tract
  • Belongs to the enterovirus genus of the picornavirus family

Questão 85

Questão
The genome of measles virus is composed of :
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  • Double stranded DNA
  • Single stranded DNA
  • Single stranded RNA
  • DNA and RNA

Questão 86

Questão
The poliovirus mature virus particle:
Responda
  • Contains 240 copies of a single protein
  • Contains 60 copies of four proteins
  • Has a dsDNA genome
  • Has a single stranded negative–sense genome

Questão 87

Questão
Tobacco mosaic virus has:
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  • An icosahedral capsid
  • A helical capsid
  • Multiple copies of each of four proteins making up the capsid
  • Multiple copies of two proteins making up the capsid

Questão 88

Questão
Underline the TRUE statement below:
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  • Viruses do not infect microorganisms
  • All viruses are enveloped
  • All viruses cause disease
  • All viruses are parasites

Questão 89

Questão
Viruses may encode their genomes as
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  • DNA
  • RNA
  • negative strand RNA
  • All of the above

Questão 90

Questão
Virus particles:
Responda
  • Are always smaller than bacterial cells
  • Can replicate independently of a host cell if provided with a nutrient medium
  • Can use some of the enzymes expressed in the host cell to aid their replication
  • Are always eliminated by the host immune system

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