MDCN2412015 Fall

1-Which one is an emerging pathogen?

a) Rabies virus b) Plasmodium c) Mers-CoV

d)Bacillus

e) Brucella

2-Who first described microorganisms seen by microscope in detail and documented them?
a) Koch b) Lister c)Leewenhoek d)Beijerink e) Pasteur
3-What did Pasteur not contribute to Microbiology?
a) disproved spontaneous generation

b) rabies vaccine

c)anthrax

d)discovered viruses

e) used boiling for sterilization

4-Viruses are
a) Eucaryotic b)alive cells c) procaryotic d) acellular e) infectious algae
5-Which one is eradicated?
a) Malaria b) cholera c) African sleeping disease d) Smallpox e) Varicella zoster
6- What did Kock not do?
a) Pure culture b)solidified media c)discovered penicillin
d) showed the link between disease and microorganisms
e) discovered the cause of tuberculosis
7-What is wrong for prions?
a) cause diarrhae b) no nucleic acid c) infectious protein only d) resistant to sterilization
e)not cellular

8-If the picture above is a figure camparing size, what is the indicated figure?
a) Virus b)eucaryotic cell c)bacteria d)fungi

e) viroid

9-Bacterial size is expressed by

a)millimeter b)micrometer c)nanometer d)Angstrom e) picometer
10-Which one is not one of the smallest bacteria?
a) Mycoplasma b)Chlamydia c) Rickettsia d) Escherichia e) Nanobacteria
11-Which type of microscopy used for Treponema?
a)Electron b)Bright-field c) Dark-field d) Phase-contrast e)Microtomic-phase
12-Which type of staining is Gram staining?
a)Simple b) Special c) Negative d) Differential e)Acid-fast

13-Which bacteria are pleomorphic?

a) Staphylococci b) Streptococci c) Neisseria d) Corynebacterium e) Treponema
14-Which one is true for Gram positive bacteria?
a) Their cell wall is different from Gram negative bacteria b) they are spherical
c)they are pink in color at the end d)they are colorless at the end
e)they are decolorised by alcohol-acetone
15-Which one is true for spores?
a) Resistant b)exists for a month c)all bacteria have spores
d)they are formed in good conditions e) germination is spore forming
16-Which is true for Chlamydia?
a) Obligate extracellular b)once considered fungi c) they are held by filters
d)they have no cell wall

e) they grow only in cell culture

17-Which method is the final determinant to taxonomy?

a)Genomic analysis b) Gram staining c)antigen detection d) Morphology e) Metabolic behaviour
18- Which groups(taxa) are used in identification?
a)familiy-order b) genus-species c) family-genus d)domain-kingdom e)phylum-class
19-Which one is the least resistant in sterilization?
a)spore b) mycobacteria c)Prion d) fungi

e)enveloped virus

20-Which one is false for autoclave? a)Sterilization with moist heat b)physical method c) at 160 C
for 2 hours d)air pockets should be avoided e) With Bacillus sterilization control is necessary.
21-Which one is false for alcohol? !!!
a)Not active against spores b) active against Mycobacteria c) activity is higher in water
d) At 70 % is the most active e) not affected from organic material
22-Which one is true for transformation?
a) By a virus the genetic material is exchanged b)naked DNA is transferred
c)The cell that gives off the DNA is called compotent d) No bacteria is naturally compotent
e)In the lab it is not possible to create compotent bacteria
23-Which one is true for mutation? a)Not stable b) always produce phenoypinc changes c) never
spontaneous d)heritable e)radiation may not induce mutation
24-Which one is a strict pathogen ?

a)Staphylococcus aureus b) Mycobacterium tuberculosis

c) Candida albicans d)Pseudomomas aeruginosa e)Escherichia coli

25-Which one is sexually transmitted?
e )Escherichia

a)Salmonella

b)Shigella c) Neisseria d)Pseudomonas