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Question 1

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Grouping organisms into categories to show degrees of similarities is called?
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  • Systematics
  • Taxonomy
  • Hierarchy
  • Nomenclature

Question 2

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Which of the following statements describes the Domain Bacteria?
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  • They are multicellular
  • They have linear chromosomes
  • They have prokaryotic cells
  • That have eukaryotic cells

Question 3

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What process can be used to increase the amount of microbial DNA to levels that can be tested by gel electrophoresis?
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  • Phage typing
  • DNA fingerprinting
  • Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
  • Western blotting

Question 4

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Treating DNA from different bacteria with the same restriction enzymes followed by separation of the fragments by electrophoresis is known as
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  • DNA base composition
  • DNA fingerprinting
  • The nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT)
  • Ribotyping

Question 5

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Which of the following techniques can identify antibodies in a patient’s serum?
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  • Flow cytometry
  • Southern blotting
  • Western blotting
  • Phage typing

Question 6

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The test that involves a reaction between known antibodies and an unknown bacterium is known as
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  • ELISA
  • Phage typing
  • Flow cytometry
  • Southern blotting

Question 7

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Genetically related groups of eukaryotes that share a common ancestor are known as
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  • Species
  • Clones
  • Strains
  • Clades

Question 8

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Which one of the following do NOT apply to eukaryotic cells?
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  • Contain 80S ribosomes
  • Have histones
  • Have circular chromosomes
  • Exhibit growth via mitosis

Question 9

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Organisms that can form thin tubes called hyphae belong in the Kingdom
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  • Animalia
  • Fungi
  • Plantae
  • Protista

Question 10

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Historically, eukaryotic organisms that did NOT fit into other kingdoms were placed into which kingdom?
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  • Protista
  • Fungi
  • Plantae
  • Animalia

Question 11

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Fossil evidence indicates that prokaryotic cells first existed on Earth ___________years ago.
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  • 3.5 billion
  • 3.5 million
  • 350,000
  • 3500

Question 12

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In the scientific name Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus is the
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  • class
  • Genus
  • Species epithet
  • Family

Question 13

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A clone is
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  • The same as a species
  • A population of cells with similar characteristics
  • A freely interbreeding population
  • A population of cells derived from a single parent cell

Question 14

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The two domains of prokaryotes are
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  • Bacteria and Archaea
  • Bacteria and Fungi
  • Archaea and Fungi
  • Bacteria and Protista

Question 15

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Which of the following bacteria LACKS a cell wall?
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  • Borrelia
  • Clostridium
  • Mycoplasma
  • Mycobacterium

Question 16

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Which one of the following is NOT a category of Archaea?
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  • Halophiles
  • Pathogens
  • Thermophiles
  • Acidophiles

Question 17

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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria that infect the roots of leguminous plants are known as
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  • Nanobacteria
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Pseudomonads
  • Rhizobia

Question 18

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The largest bacterium discovered, found in sediments of the coastal waters off Namibia, belongs to the genus
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  • Mycobacterium
  • Pseudomonas
  • Thiomargarita
  • Staphylococcus

Question 19

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Alphaproteobacteria often have stalk-like or budlike protrusions known as
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  • Axial filaments
  • Myxospores
  • Prosthecae
  • Elementary bodies

Question 20

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Which of the following is NOT a member of the order Enterobacteriales?
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  • Pseudomonas
  • Escherichia
  • Salmonella
  • Shigella

Question 21

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The MOST common infectious genus in the world which ONLY lives inside the cells of insects is
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  • Coxiella
  • Brucella
  • Wolbachia
  • Bartonella

Question 22

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The phylogenetic relationship among proteobacteria is based on ________studies.
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  • rRNA
  • mRNA
  • DNA
  • tRNA

Question 23

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Which of the following causes syphilis?
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  • Treponema pallidum
  • Leptospira interrogans
  • Cytophaga spp.
  • Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 24

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Which of the following is NOT assigned to the phylum Firmicutes?
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  • Enterobacteriales
  • Clostridiales
  • Lactobacillales
  • Mycoplasmatales

Question 25

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Which genus of bacteria is responsible for more illnesses and diseases than any other group of bacteria?
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  • Streptococcus
  • Enterococcus
  • Staphylococcus
  • Bacillus

Question 26

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What is the common cause of yeast infections?
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  • Aspergillus fumigatus
  • Candida albicans
  • Histoplasma capsulatum
  • Penicillium chryosogenum

Question 27

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Which of the following is the MOST common life-threatening infection in AIDS patients?
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  • Aspergillus
  • Candida
  • Rhizopus
  • Pneumocystis

Question 28

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What term refers to fungal infections deep within the body?
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  • Systemic mycoses
  • Cutaneous mycoses
  • Subcutaneous mycoses
  • Superficial mycoses

Question 29

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Algae with complex cell walls made of pectin and a layer of silica are
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  • Diatoms
  • Green algae
  • Red algae
  • Dinoflagellates

Question 30

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Which type of algae can live at greater ocean depths than other algae?
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  • Blue algae
  • Red algae
  • Brown algae
  • Green algae

Question 31

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The body of a multicellular algae is called a
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  • Mycelium
  • Hypha
  • Pseudopod
  • Thallus

Question 32

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Paralytic shellfish poisoning is caused by dinoflagellates that secrete a neurotoxin known as
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  • Aflatoxin
  • Endotoxin
  • Exotoxin
  • Saxitoxin

Question 33

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The feeding or growing stage of a protozoan is called the
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  • Merozoite
  • Hypnozoite
  • Trophozoite
  • Sporozoite

Question 34

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Amebic dysentery is caused by which of the following human pathogens?
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  • Acanthamoeba
  • Naegleria
  • Entamoeba
  • Trichomonas

Question 35

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Which of the following pairs is mismatched?
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  • Mosquito-epidemic typhus
  • Flea-plague
  • Tick-Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  • Mosquito-malaria

Question 36

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The sexual reproduction of Plasmodium takes place in the gut of a
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  • Tick
  • Mosquito
  • Human
  • Flea

Question 37

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Which of the following is the vector of Lyme disease?
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  • Tick
  • Head louse
  • Mite
  • Mosquito

Question 38

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Arthropods that carry pathogenic microorganisms are called
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  • Vehicles
  • Vectors
  • Fomites
  • Reservoirs

Question 39

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Which of the following is TRUE regarding viruses?
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  • Virions contain both DNA and RNA
  • They multiply by binary fission
  • They are sensitive to antibiotics
  • They are not composed of cells

Question 40

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Which of the following is NOT a morphological type of virus?
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  • Helical
  • Polymorphic
  • Polyhedral
  • Enveloped

Question 41

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Viruses that infect bacteria are called
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  • Bacteriophages
  • Prions
  • Viroids
  • Antisense viruses

Question 42

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Capsids are composed of protein subunits known as
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  • Capsomeres
  • Spikes
  • Envelopes
  • Tail fibers

Question 43

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It is hypothesized that viroids evolved from
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  • Viruses
  • Exons
  • Introns
  • Prions

Question 44

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Prion diseases can be acquired via ALL of the following EXCEPT
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  • Ingestion
  • Inhalation
  • Contaminated surgical instruments
  • Transplanted nerve tissue

Question 45

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Scrapie is an example of a ________ disease found in sheep and caused by a prion.
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  • Neurological
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Respiratory
  • Cardiovascular

Question 46

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Viroids infect
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  • Animals
  • Protozoans
  • Plants
  • Bacteria

Question 47

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A viroid is a
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  • Provirus
  • Naked, infectious piece of RNA
  • Capsid without a nucleic acid
  • Complete, infectious virus particle

Question 48

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What percentage of cancers are known to be virus-induced?
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  • 10%
  • 25%
  • 50%
  • 100%

Question 49

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The ability of retroviruses to induce tumors is related to which enzyme?
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  • Reverse transcriptase
  • RNA polymerase
  • DNA polymerase
  • Protease

Question 50

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Cancer-causing alterations to cellular DNA affect parts of the genome called
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  • Introns
  • Oncogenes
  • Exons
  • Promoters

Question 51

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Which of the following is NOT an effect of transformation?
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  • T antigens appear in the nucleus of the cell
  • Cells lose their ability to divide
  • Cells tend to exhibit chromosomal abnormalities
  • Tumor-specific transplantation antigens appear on the cell surface.

Question 52

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Which of the following is an example of a latent viral infection in humans?
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  • Measles
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Shingles
  • Influenza
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