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JCCC Micro Exam #1: Questions With Correct SolutionsUbiquitous Right Ans - found everywhere
How do we classify microbes? Right Ans - Prokaryotes: bacteria and arches
Eukaryotes: fungi, protozoa, and algae
Florence Nightingale Right Ans - founder of medical statistics
which played a major role in disease in warfare and overcrowded areas
Robert Koch Right Ans - founder of the scientific method of microbiology
demonstrated an important aspect of epidemiology - chain of infection
How do we isolate? Right Ans -
Know Koch's postulates Right Ans - 1) microbe is found in all cases of the
disease, but absent from healthy individuals
2) microbe is isolated from host and grown in pure culture
3) when microbe introduced into healthy host, the same disease occurs
4) same strain of microbe is obtained from newly diseased host
Immunizations Right Ans -
Alexander Fleming Right Ans - discovered the first antibiotic from
Penicillium notatum
Aseptic technique Right Ans - keeping a sterile environment
not contaminating yourself or others
Antiseptic agents Right Ans - chemicals that kills microbes
Discovery of viruses Right Ans -
, Watson and Crick Right Ans - discovered the double helix
Rosalind Franklin Right Ans - helped Watson and Crick in discovering the
double helix but was not recognized
Frederick Sanger Right Ans - discovered DNA sequence
Microbiota Right Ans - collection of bacteria, arches and eukaryotic
microbes that call us home
Mutualism Right Ans - most of these microbes in and on our bodies give
benefits to us and we give them some benefits
Adhesions Right Ans - helps microbes to attach to and colonize epithelial
lining membranes
Colonizations Right Ans - the ability of a microbe to affix to a body surface
and multiply
Distinguishing pathogen from normal flora Right Ans -
Pathogen Right Ans - any bacterium virus, fungus, protozoan or worm that
cause disease
bacteria, virus, fungal, agents of disease
Pathogenicity Right Ans - the ability of that organism to cause disease
Parasites Right Ans - disease causing protozoa and worms
Primary pathogens Right Ans - disease causing microbes with means to
branch healthy immune system
Opportunistic pathogens Right Ans - cause of disease only in a
compromised host
Virulence Right Ans - degree or severity of disease
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