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Microbiology Mastery Quiz

Test your knowledge of microbiology with this comprehensive quiz covering a wide array of topics, including bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Each question is designed to challenge your understanding and help you learn more about these fascinating organisms.

Whether you're a student or a teacher, this quiz offers:

82 carefully curated questions
A mix of multiple-choice formats
Immediate scoring to track your progress

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These bacteria are motile as a result of their monotrichous, amphitrichous or lophotrichous flagellation and are called?

Eubacteriales

Pseudomonadales

Bacteriales

AOTA

A mucocutaneous fungal infection known as yeast infection

Tinea pedis

Vulvovaginitis

Sporotrix

Tinea corporis

A population of cells arising from a single cell or spore or from group of attached cells?

Culture

Contaminated culture

Colony

NOTA

Structure of fungi that lacks septa and have a continuous cytoplasmic mass with hundreds to thousands of nuclei are called?

Mycelium

Coenocytic fungi

Opithokonts

NOTA

Type of inclusion bodies that is found among rabies infection is?

Guarnieri bodies

Negri bodies

Mullerian bodies

NOTA

These are primarily decomposers and can reproduce asexually by sporangia formation?

Deuteromycota

Ascomycota

Zygomycota

NOTA

Type of relationship wherein one is benefited and the other is neither benefited nor harmed?

Symbiosis

Commensalism

Parasitism

Mutualism

True or False: Fungi contain chlorophyll?

True

False

A subcutaneous fungal infection known as rose gardeners dse

Tinea pedis

Vulvovaginitis

Sporotrichosis

Tinea corporis

These are special substance that is used to build up the diameter of the flagellum so that it can be seen with a light microscope?

Fixative

Mordant

Decolorizer

NOTA

Protozoa reproduce by splitting in two, a process known as?

Regeneration

Cell fission

Replication

NOTA

A process wherein bacteria multiply by elongation of the cell followed by division of the enlarged cell into two cell is?

Invasion made by ectoparasite in humans is called?

Autoinfection

Infestation

Superinfection

Infection

Bacteria are for the most part asexual, and multiply by an elongation of the cell followed by a division of the enlarged cell into two cells, the process known as?

Binary fission

Mitosis

Meiosis

NOTA

These are nutrient agar and nutrient broth that will support the growth of microorganisms that do not have special nutritional requirements.

Minimal essential growth medium

Enrichment medium

Selective medium

Differential medium

Type of relationship between two organisms that can’t exist independently is termed?

Parasitism

Symbiosis

Mutualism

NOTA

This is the interval between exposure and the earliest evidence of symptoms produced as a result on infection or infestation is?

Clinical incubation

Biological incubation

Exposure

NOTA

Hyphae of different mating types fuse and give rise to a specialized structure that produces spores and this process is called?

Budding

Conjugation

Replication

NOTA

Based on the mode of living, these parasites are found wherein the larval stage develops in a host different from that of adult is?

This bacteria can cause gas gangrene?

Tetani

Botulinum

Perfringens

NOTA

This spiral bacteria appears like an actual corkscrew?

Spirochetes

Spirilla

Vibrios

NOTA

Rocky spotted fever is caused by?

R. prowazekii

R. Rickettssi

R. Typhii

NOTA

The ability of organism to move by itself is called?

Flagella

Motility

Cilia

NOTA

A deep primary infection known as cave dse

Coccidiomycosis

Vulvovaginitis

Sporotrix

Histoplasmosis

Bacteria that are shaped like rods or cylinders is called?

Cocci

Bacilli

Spiral forms

NOTA

These bacteria may be motile or non-motile, but if motile they possess a peritrichous flagellation?

Eubacteriales

Pseudomonadales

Bacteriales

NOTA

Some bacilli are as long as they are broad and are oval, they tend to resemble like cocci?

Streptobacilli

Fusiform bacilli

Coccobacilli

NOTA

Bacteria can be observed thru a hanging drop method by constant bombardment of organism by water molecules is?

Brownian movement

Flagella

Amphitrichous

NOTA

Based on the mode of living, these parasites are found wherein the larval stage develops in a host while the adult is free living?

Classification of viruses include/s the following? EXCEPT

Contain substances (antibiotic) which inhibits the growth of one organism to allow the growth of another to grow clearly demonstrated.

Minimal essential growth medium

Enrichment medium

Selective medium

Differential medium

Other types of bacilli tend adhere in chainlike formations following division and are called?

Streptobacilli

Fusiform bacilli

Coccobacilli

NOTA

Metachromatic granules are also given the collective name of?

Volutin

Inclusion

Polymer

NOTA

Type of fungi that cause most of the fungal diseases in humans?

Deuteromycota

Basidomycota

Ascomycota

NOTA

It is when the infected person causes a direct source of re-exposure either external or internal in the mode of transmission is?

Autoinfection

Endoparasite

Superinfection

NOTA

Structures of fungi include/s the following?

The bodies of fungi are made of fungi

The hyphae are divide into a mat of interwoven individual cells

Mycelium maximizes surface area to volume ratios making feeding very efficient.

AOTA

Type of infection when an individual harbors a parasite is reinfected with the same species of parasite is?

Autoinfection

Endoparasite

Superinfection

NOTA

Structure of fungi that has a specialized hyphae is called?

Haustoria

Mycelium

Mycorrhizae

NOTA

The bodies of fungi are made of filaments called __________?

Opisthokonts

Hyphae

Mycelium

NOTA

The study of form and, structure, shapes of bacterial cells is called?

Morphology

Binary fission

Cell structure

NOTA

The only major disease known to man caused by PPLO is?

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Pulmonary tuberculosis

Primary Atypical Pneumonia

NOTA

Contain dyes to differentiate microorganisms. They distinguish between bacteria by incorporating an indicator which changes color when acid is produced following fermentation of a specific carbohydrate.

A. Minimal essential growth medium

Enrichment medium

Selective medium

Differential medium

Bacilli with tapered ends and form like a cigar is also termed as?

Streptobacilli

Fusiform bacilli

Coccobacilli

NOTA

Classification based on habitat of parasite that are found within the body of the host is?

Ectoparasite

Endoparasite

Superinfection

NOTA

These are unique among fungi in having flagellated spores called?

Coenocytic fungi

Hyphae

Zoospores

NOTA

This bacteria can cause tetanus or lock jaw in human is?

C. tetani

C. botulinum

C. perfringens

NOTA

Contain substances (antibiotic) which inhibits the growth of one organism to allow the growth of another to grow clearly demonstrated.

Minimal essential growth medium

Enrichment medium

Selective medium

Differential medium

They are also known as True fungi that include yeast and the molds?

Eumycetes

Actinomycetes

Prokaryotic

NOTA

The protoplasmic membrane accounts for 8-10% of the dry weight of the entire cell, and it is chemically composed of a molecule containing lipid and protein called?

Cell membrane

Glycoprotein

Lipoprotien

NOTA

The only organism of the genus Bacillus that is dangerous to man that causes anthrax is?

Rickettsiae

Amoebiasis

Bacillus anthracis

NOTA

Invasion made by endoparasite in humans is called?

Autoinfection

Infestation

Superinfection

Infection

In the study of biology, three large groups of microorganisms possess some characteristics of bacteria that include/s the following?

Type of inclusion bodies that is found with smallpox infection is?

Guarnieri bodies

Negri bodies

Mullerian bodies

NOTA

Capsid is made up of a series of smaller repeating structural units called?

Virion

Capsomeres

Inclusion bodies

NOTA

A selective and differential media that can be used to identify Staphylococcus aureus?

Mannitol Salt Agar

Mac Conkey’s Agar

Both

Neither

These are minute highly durable body formed within the cell and capable of developing into a new individual?

They contain a characteristics black or greenish color that usually appear on book jackets, food, clothing except on metallic surface.

These spiral bacteria represents a curved rods resembling a comma is called?

Spirilla

Vibrios

NOTA

. These required for the growth of organisms special nutritional requirements such as Neisseria sp.

A. Minimal essential growth medium

B. Enrichment medium

C. Selective medium

D. Differential medium

Formation of spores is called?

Endospore

Sporulation

Chromatin body

NOTA

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