Unit 1
Microbiology is...
What is the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye?
A diplococcus bacterium will look like...
What is a pair of spheres?
Colonization begins...
What is prior to birth?
The two types of control of microorganisms are...
What are physical and chemical?
This statement was made when Gio was using a Bunsen burner.
What is "I like fire"?
This theory states that the cause of diseases is foul-smelling air from dead or decaying bodies.
What is Miasma?
The function of the Attachment Pili is to...
What is to allow for attachment to tissues?
True pathogens cause infectious disease in healthy hosts, whereas opportunistic pathogens...
What is the cause of infectious diseases in a compromised host?
Which term is used to remove organisms from a surface?
What is Degerm?
Gio does not want his family members to die because...
What is the cost to bury them is too high?
The system was used to relate a single Microorganism to a single disease.
What are Koch's Postulates?
This is a heat-loving organism that best grows between 50 and 60 degrees C.
What are thermophiles?
Any objective evidence of disease as noted by an observer is...
What is a sign?
The process of removing all forms of life is known as...
What is sterilization?
This animal was named by using the prefix and suffix of its parents, the grizzly bear and the polar bear.
What is the Grolar bear?
A prokaryotic organism's main component of the cell wall is...
The process of breaking down carbohydrates to generate ATP can be named.
What is Fermentation?
An epidemic over a wide area is described as a...
What is a Pandemic?
The phenol coefficient is used to...
What is to indicate disinfecting ability?
After Gio found out one of his classmates has an outdoor cat, he said...
What is "your cat will die in the snow"?
Why do some bacteria hold the crystal violet-iodine stain?
What is the structural and chemical makeup of the cell wall?
Bacteria can become deadly when...
What is encapsulated?
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (AKA Covid-19)is a form of a ____ disease.
What is an airborne disease?
The area in which an antibiotic works to remove bacteria is called...
What is the zone of inhibition?
Historically, women wore long dresses to be modest. Gio believes this should be the standard today. So he said...
What is "why have women evolved to wear short skirts?"