Questão 1
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Prokaryotic organisms have
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No nuclear envelope
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A nuclear envelope
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Chromosomes
Questão 2
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Which of these are examples of oral habitats for microorganisms?
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Buccal mucosa
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Dorsal surface of tongue
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Appliances
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Gingival crevice
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Tooth surface
Questão 3
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Which of these are non-specific defence factors found in saliva?
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Lactoferrin
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Lysozyme
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IgA
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HCO3
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PO4
Questão 4
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Which of these are specific defence factors found in saliva?
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IgA
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Lysozyme
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Lactoferrin
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Calcineurin
Questão 5
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What are the most important buffer systems of saliva?
Questão 6
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Lysozyme functions by cleaving the [blank_start]beta[blank_end]-1-4 linkage between N-acetylg[blank_start]lucosamine[blank_end] and N-acetylm[blank_start]uramic[blank_end] acid which is the repeating [blank_start]di[blank_end]saccharide unit of cell wall p[blank_start]eptidoglycan[blank_end]. This means it can lyse many streptococci.
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beta
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lucosamine
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uramic
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di
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eptidoglycan
Questão 7
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What pH of saliva promotes growth of some cariogenic bacteria?
Questão 8
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Which of these are functions of GCF?
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Flushing out microbes
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Buffering
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Provision of defence factors
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Phagocytosis of bacteria by T cells
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Phagocytosis of bacteria by neutrophils
Questão 9
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What is an example of a defence factor in GCF?
Questão 10
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What is the predominant leukocyte in GCF?
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Neutrophils
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B cells
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T cells
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Macrophages
Questão 11
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What is an example of a synergistic interaction of bacteria?
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Bacteria using metabolic end products as nutrient sources
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The production of BLIS by strep salivarius to inhibit strep pyogenes
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Occupation of niches to prevent colonisation by new species
Questão 12
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Co-aggregation of the same species of bacteria is known as...
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Homotypic
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Heterotypic
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Transience
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Coexistence
Questão 13
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What does BLIS stand for?
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Bacteriocin like inhibitory substance
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Bacterial inhibitory substance
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Bacterial lysis substance
Questão 14
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What is the main prerequisite for host colonisation?
Questão 15
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Which of these substances are extracellular polysaccharides produced by certain bacteria?
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Glucan
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Fructan
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Levan
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Dextran
Questão 16
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What species of bacteria predominates in fissures?
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Streptococci
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Lactobacilli
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Actinomyces
Questão 17
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Prevotella, Porphyromonas and Spirochaetes tend to colonise the
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Teeth
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Gingival crevice
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Buccal mucosa
Questão 18
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Strep and Actinomyces spp. tend to attach to the
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Teeth
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Gingival crevice
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Dorsum of the tongue
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Vestibule
Questão 19
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Anaerobic bacteria do not tend to appear until adolescence.
Questão 20
Questão
Loss of all the teeth (senility) leads to oral microflora similar to..
Questão 21
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Denture plaque is most similar to...
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Enamel plaque
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Crevicular plaque
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Mucosal plaque
Questão 22
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Dental plaque contains...
Questão 23
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Organic matrix makes up ___ of plaque
Questão 24
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Plaque is the result of mineralisation of calculus
Questão 25
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Glucose is a better intracellular store than glycogen for bacteria.
Questão 26
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The enzyme(s) involved in extracellular polysaccharide formation is/are...
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Fructosyltransferase
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Glucosyltransferase
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Hexokinase
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Fructokinase
Questão 27
Questão
Xylitol is fermented but very slowly
Questão 28
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Starch is less cariogenic than sucrose
Questão 29
Questão
Cooked starch and sucrose is more cariogenic than sucrose alone
Questão 30
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____________________ help bacteria to continue to produce acid after dietary sugar is exhausted
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Intracellular polysaccharides
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Extracellular polysaccharides
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Glucosyltransferase and fructokinase
Questão 31
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The most important acid resulting in caries is...
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Lactic acid
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Acetic acid
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Propionic acid
Questão 32
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Why can sucrose readily diffuse into plaque?
Questão 33
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Label the green question mark
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Invertase
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Glucosyltransferase
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Hexokinase
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Sucrase
Questão 34
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Label the red question mark
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Glucosyltransferase
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Fructosyltransferase
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Invertase
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Maltase
Questão 35
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Label the purple question mark
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Glycogen
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Glucose
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Glucan
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Dextran
Questão 36
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Label the blue question mark
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Dissolution
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Remineralisation
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Deposition
Questão 37
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Glucosyltransferase can break down sucrose.
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Fructosyltransferase can break down sucrose.
Questão 39
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Glucosyltransferase converts sucrose into fructans and glucans.
Questão 40
Questão
Label the diagram
Questão 41
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Irreversible short range interactions of plaque involve
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Adhesin receptors
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Van Der Waals forces
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Hydrogen bonding