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Microorganisms MCQ's 2014 Answered

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Past papers; August 2014 May 2014
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Frage 1

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Pasteur is attributed with which one of the following discoveries?
Antworten
  • Was the first to see microorganisms under a microscope
  • First to discover and use agar
  • That there could be life without air
  • The first chemical antibiotics

Frage 2

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The length of a typical E. coli cell is approximately?
Antworten
  • 20 μm
  • 2 μm
  • 200 nm
  • 20 nm

Frage 3

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With respect to differences between members of the archaeal and bacterial domains/kingdoms, which is the CORRECT statement?
Antworten
  • Both have peptidoglycan in their cell walls
  • Only some Archaea are capable of methanogenesis
  • Archaea are sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics
  • Bacteria have similar RNA polymerase to that of Archaea

Frage 4

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Which statement is CORRECT with respect to the E. coli chromosome?
Antworten
  • It is negatively supercoiled
  • It is positively supercoiled
  • There are typically several origins of replication
  • It consists of over 50 million base pairs

Frage 5

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A culture of E. coli is diluted by a factor of x 10-5 and, after plating out 100 µl on an agar plate, 78 colonies grew after incubation at 37oC overnight. The original culture therefore contained how many viable E. coli cells per ml?
Antworten
  • 7.8 x 10(7)
  • 7.8 x 10(8)
  • 7.8 x 10(6)
  • 7.8 x 10(5)

Frage 6

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Bacterial flagella bring about cell motion by which mechanism?
Antworten
  • Wave-like movement of the flagellum
  • Rotation of the cell
  • Rotation of the flagellum in one direction only
  • Rotation of the flagellum that is reversible

Frage 7

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The Bacille-Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is:
Antworten
  • Heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Attenuated live Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium bovis
  • Attenuated live Mycobacterium bovis

Frage 8

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Which of the following is only transmitted by direct person-to-person contact?
Antworten
  • Malaria
  • Plague
  • Gonorrhoea
  • . Tuberculosis

Frage 9

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Photoautotophs use:
Antworten
  • Light as an energy source and CO2 as a carbon source
  • Light as an energy and glucose as a carbon source
  • CO2 as both an energy source and a carbon source
  • All of the above.

Frage 10

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Biochemical synthesis of new cell material is called:
Antworten
  • Metabolism.
  • Anabolism.
  • Catabolism.
  • Synthatabolism.

Frage 11

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Carl Woese of the University of Illinois and his collaborators identified two major branches of prokaryotic evolution. What was the basis for dividing prokaryotes into two domains?
Antworten
  • Microscopic examination of the staining characteristics of the cell wall.
  • . Metabolic characteristics such as the production of methane gas
  • Ecological characteristics such as the ability to survive extreme temperatures
  • Molecular characteristics such as ribosomal RNA sequences

Frage 12

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Incorporation of atmospheric N2 to NH4+ occurs via the process of:
Antworten
  • Nitrogen fixation.
  • Nitrification.
  • Denitrification.
  • None of the above, atmospheric N2 cannot be incorporated into NH4+

Frage 13

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Which of these environmental factors influence microbial growth?
Antworten
  • pH
  • Water potential
  • Oxygen
  • All of the above

Frage 14

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The cardinal temperatures are the:
Antworten
  • Minimum temperatures
  • Optimum temperatures
  • Maximum temperatures
  • Minimum, optimum, and maximum temperatures taken together.

Frage 15

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‘Necrosis’ is a symptom of infection of a plant with a pathogenic organism. Necrosis is:
Antworten
  • Yellowing of infected or surrounding tissue
  • Uncontrolled cell division resulting in the formation of a gall
  • Death of infected or surrounding cells
  • Premature leaf fall

Frage 16

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Phytophthora infestans is a fungus-like organism which:
Antworten
  • Causes disease of a wide range of woody hosts
  • Causes potato blight
  • Causes ringworm
  • Causes black sigatoka disease of banana

Frage 17

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Bacterial genes:
Antworten
  • often contain introns
  • often organised in operons
  • always encode proteins
  • always shorter than 1,000 base pairs

Frage 18

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The Bacterial chromosome is:
Antworten
  • Circular DNA
  • Linear DNA
  • Either circular or linear DNA
  • Double stranded RNA

Frage 19

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The genome of measles virus is composed of :
Antworten
  • Double stranded DNA
  • Single stranded DNA
  • Single stranded RNA
  • DNA and RNA

Frage 20

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The poliovirus mature virus particle:
Antworten
  • Contains 240 copies of a single protein
  • Contains 60 copies of four proteins
  • Has a dsDNA genome
  • Has a single stranded negative–sense genome

Frage 21

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With regard to the differences between bacterial and eukaryotic cells which statement is the CORRECT one?
Antworten
  • Bacterial cells contain mitochondria
  • Bacterial cells are usually larger than eukaryote cells
  • Bacteria do not contain a chromosome
  • Only bacterial cells are sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics

Frage 22

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Which statement is CORRECT with respect to the E.coli chromosome?
Antworten
  • It is negatively supercoiled
  • It is positively supercoiled
  • There are typically several origins of replication
  • It consists of over 50 million base pairs

Frage 23

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Which statement is CORRECT with respect to Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)?
Antworten
  • LPS is found in Gram positive cells
  • LPS is found in Gram negative cells in the cytoplasmic membrane
  • LPS is found in the outer-membrane of Gram negative cells.
  • LPS is found inside all bacterial cells

Frage 24

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A culture of E. coli is diluted by a factor of 10(-5) and, after plating out 100 µl on an agar plate, 142 colonies grew after incubation at 37oC overnight. The original culture therefore contained how many viable E. coli cells per ml?
Antworten
  • 1.42 x 10(7)
  • 1.42 x 10(8)
  • 1.42 x 10(6)
  • 1.42 x 10(5)

Frage 25

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With respect to differences between members of the archaeal and bacterial domains/kingdoms, which is the CORRECT statement?
Antworten
  • Both have peptidoglycan in their cell walls
  • Only some Archaea are capable of methanogenesis
  • Archaea are sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics
  • Bacteria have similar RNA polymerase to that of Archaea

Frage 26

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Which statement is CORRECT with respect to peptidoglycan?
Antworten
  • There are multiple molecules of peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls
  • Only Gram positive cells possess peptidoglycan
  • There is only a single molecule of peptidoglycan in a bacterial cell wall
  • Peptidoglycan is only found in the Gram negative cell wall

Frage 27

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Which of the following is transmitted to humans by arthropods?
Antworten
  • Tuberculosis
  • Malaria
  • Cholera
  • Typhoid

Frage 28

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The antibiotic rifampicin interferes with which of the following?
Antworten
  • Peptidoglycan synthesis
  • DNA gyrase
  • Lipid synthesis
  • RNA polymerase

Frage 29

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Catalase is indispensable to
Antworten
  • Obligate anaerobes
  • Aerotolerant anaerobes
  • Aerobes
  • All of the above

Frage 30

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The CORRECT way to write this microbe’s name is
Antworten
  • bacillus subtilis (italics)
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Bacillus Subtilis (italics)
  • Bacillus subtilis (italics)

Frage 31

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Chemical energy is released when organic or inorganic compounds are:
Antworten
  • Reduced
  • Incorporated into larger molecules
  • Oxidized
  • Synthesized

Frage 32

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A microbe isolated from deep in the ocean could best be characterized as a:
Antworten
  • Psychrophile.
  • Mesophile.
  • Barophile and psychrophile
  • Barophile.

Frage 33

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Which of the following is both a selective and a differential medium?
Antworten
  • Nutrient broth.
  • MacConkey agar.
  • Blood agar.
  • Tryptic soya broth.

Frage 34

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The signature sequence is used extensively in:
Antworten
  • Developing phylogenetic probes for fluorescent in situ hybridisation.
  • Analyzing the G+C content of DNA.
  • Isolating microorganisms from the environment.
  • All of the above

Frage 35

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Mature virus particles (Virions) ALWAYS contain:
Antworten
  • non-structural proteins
  • a protease enzyme
  • a DNA or RNA genome
  • a reverse transcriptase

Frage 36

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Viruses may encode their genomes as
Antworten
  • DNA
  • RNA
  • negative strand RNA
  • All of the above

Frage 37

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Organisms belonging to the genus Phytophthora are:
Antworten
  • True fungi
  • Fungus-like organisms
  • Slime moulds
  • Rusts

Frage 38

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Which of the following is NOT a correct statement about true fungi
Antworten
  • True fungi are eukaryotic
  • All true fungi are multi-cellular
  • True fungi are heterotrophic
  • Most true fungi have chitin cell walls

Frage 39

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With regards to bacterial plasmids which statement is the CORRECT one?
Antworten
  • A plasmid is a regulatory gene
  • A plasmid is a short RNA molecule
  • A plasmid is an extra chromosomal DNA molecule
  • A plasmid is a non coding region found in some bacterial genomes

Frage 40

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A Wild-type bacterial strain is:
Antworten
  • A strain with a limited number of mutations
  • An arbitrarily chosen strain
  • A strain without plasmids
  • A strain which is sensitive to antibiotics
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