____________ is a specialized area of biology that deals with living things (some not…) ordinarily too small to be seen with the naked eye.
What is microbiology?
100
Name the three morphologies of bacteria.
What are cooci, bacilli, and spiral?
100
___________ are misfolded normal proteins that cause disease.
What are prions?
100
Which phenolic compound is found in antimicrobial soaps?
What is triclosan?
100
_ are diseases that result from entry of a specific preformed
toxin into host by ingestion.
What is intoxication?
200
Why do we heat fix slides?
What is kill microbe, adhere microbe to the slide, coagulate proteins to retain the stain?
200
The concept that eukaryotes evolved from larger prokaryotes that engulfed smaller prokaryotes is known as _______.
What is endosymbiosis?
200
Name the three methods used to culture animal viruses.
What are live animals, cell culture, and bird embryos?
200
Which drug type is administered first to a patient?
What is broad spectrum?
200
Name some sterile sites on the body.
What are brain, kidney, blood etc?
300
What are the accomplishments of the Golden Age Microbiology?
What is Germ theory of disease, Fermentation, and Vaccination?
300
What special component of a mycobacterial cell wall prevents proper Gram staining?
What is mycolic acid?
300
Syncytia and inclusion bodies are examples of __________, virus-induced damage to animal cells that changes
their microscopic appearance.
What are cytopathic effects?
300
Name some sterilization methods.
What are autoclaving, ethylene oxide, dry heat...?
300
This stage of clinical infection is where microbes multiplies at high levels, becomes well established and patients have more specific signs and symptoms (fever, cough, rash, diarrhea).
What is period of invasion?
400
_________ is a medium with one or more agents that inhibit growth of certain organisms from a mixed sample.
What is a selective medium?
400
What are the features of a Gram-negative cell wall?
What are thin peptidoglycan layer, two membranes, LPS and porins?
400
What enzyme added RNA nucleotides in a 5' to 3' direction?
What is RNA polymerase?
400
Name the characteristics that are desired for the ideal antimicrobial agent.
What are microbicidal not microbiostatic, not expensive, not gain drug resistance, etc?
400
Name an opsonin.
What are antibodies and complement?
500
This part of the bacterium is stained in the Gram Stain.
What is the bacterial cell wall?
500
Name some asexual spores of fungi.
What are arthrospores, sporangiospores, conidia...
500
What are three basic means of genetic recombination in bacteria?
What are conjugation, transduction and transformation?
500
The property of antimicrobial effects where a drug is effective in exceedingly small concentrations is known as ______.
What is oligodynamic action?
500
When someone is given the wrong blood in a transfusion, this is what type of hypersensitivity.