MICROBIOLOGY

QUIZ

A N S W E R A L L Q U E S T I O N S I N T WO M I N U T E S
T O W I N A L O L LY P O P !
WHO IS THIS GREAT
DISCOVERER?
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• Charles Darwin
• Louis Pasteur
• Francesco Redi

• Correct – he is considered the “Father of Microbiology”

• Wrong – Charles Darwin gave the theory of evolution
• Wrong – Pasteur created vaccine for rabies and anthrax
• Wrong – Redi performed experiments to disprove
spontaneous generation
HOW OLD IS OUR EARTH?
• 4.5 million years
• 1000 years
• 4.5 billion years
• Cannot be determined

• Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again
• Correct
• Wrong; try again
WHAT IS A BACTERIOPHAGE?
• Fungus
• Bacterium
• Virus
• Protozoan

• Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again
• Correct – it is a virus that eats bacterium
• Wrong – try again
HOW DOES PENICILLIN KILL
BACTERIA?
• Bacterial peptidoglycan
• Bacterial nucleus
• Bacterial cytoplasm
• Bacterial ribosome

• Correct
• Bacteria do not have proper nucleus; try again
• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again
LICHENS ARE A SYMBIOTIC
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN:
• Fungi and Bacteria
• Bacteria and Viruses
• Bacteria and Algae
• Fungi and Algae

• Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again
• Correct
WHICH OF THE STATEMENTS IS
WRONG: CYAANOBACTERIA ARE
• phototrophic
• photosynthetic
• prokaryotic
• Non-cellular

• Wrong; they are indeed phototrophic

• Wrong; they are indeed photosynthetic
• Wrong; they are indeed prokaryotic
• You are right – They are not cellular
THIS IMAGE SHOWS THE
LIFECYCLE OF
• Leishmania
• Mycobacterium
• Plasmodium
• Trypanosoma

• This causes leishmaniasis

• This causes tuberculosis
• Correct; This causes malaria
• This causes sleeping sickness
WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF THIS IMAGE?
• First culturing of pathogenic microbes
• First Tuberculosis patient’s sample
• Definition of MRSA
• Discovery of penicillin

• Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again
• Correct
ESCHERICHIA COLI , GROWS
OPTIMALLY AT:
• 37° C
• 0° C
• 65° C
• 26° C

• Correct – The same as human body temperature

• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again
WHAT IS MMR COMBINED
VACCINE FOR?
• Measles-Meningitis-Rabies
• Malaria-Mumps-Rotavirus
• Measles-Mumps-Rubella
• Malaria-Mycobacterium-Rubella

• Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again – There is no vaccine available for malaria now
• Correct. Good going.
• Wrong; try again – BCG is used for tuberculosis
RIBOSOMES CONSIST OF:
• DNA and proteins
• RNA and proteins
• Proteins and chromatin
• Nucleus

• Wrong; try again

• Correct
• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again
CARRIER OF ZIKA VIRUS
• Anopheles mosquito
• Aedes mosquito
• By touch
• Airborne

• Wrong, try again

• Correct, Well done!
• Wrong; try again
• Wrong; try again