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Microorganisms MCQ's 2012

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Question 1

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Which of the following is a macronutrient?
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  • Manganese
  • Magnesium
  • Zinc
  • Cobalt

Question 2

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Denitrification is a process by which:
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  • Nitrogen gas is fixed by microorganisms
  • Nitrates are reduced to nitrogen gas
  • Nitrates are reduced to ammonia
  • Nitrogen is assimilated into cellular material

Question 3

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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?
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  • 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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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Addition of blood to a culture medium allows haemolytic bacteria to be picked out. This is an example of a:
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  • Selective medium
  • Differential medium
  • Synthetic medium
  • Defined medium

Question 6

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

Question 7

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Mutations are:
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  • Chemical modifications of DNA or RNA molecules
  • Any changes of bacterial genome as compared with a wild type
  • Events resulting from genetic exchange between bacterial plasmids
  • Sequencing errors

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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Virus particles:
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  • Are always smaller than bacterial cells
  • Can replicate independently of a host cell if provided with a nutrient medium
  • Can use some of the enzymes expressed in the host cell to aid their replication
  • Are always eliminated by the host immune system

Question 11

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The symptom ‘chlorosis’ which develops when some fungi infect plants is due to:
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  • Cell death
  • Nutrient imbalance
  • Impaired photosynthesis
  • Excess plant hormones

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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Pasteur is attributed with which one of the following discoveries?
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  • 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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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With respect to differences between members of the archaeal and bacterial domains/kingdoms, which is the CORRECT statement?
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  • 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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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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?
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  • 7.8 x 10(7)
  • 7.8 x 10(8)
  • 7.8 x 10(6)
  • 7.8 x 10(5)

Question 20

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Bacterial flagella bring about cell motion by which mechanism?
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  • 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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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Active transport is necessary when:
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  • Diffusion will not allow adequate amounts of a substance to enter the cell
  • Movement into the cell is against a concentration gradient
  • The level of nutrients in nature is very low
  • All of the above

Question 23

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The size of the most useful RNA molecule for prokaryotic evolutionary studies is:
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  • 5S
  • 16S
  • 18S
  • 23S

Question 24

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Siderophores:
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  • Act as a solvent for iron and transport iron into the cells
  • Are a key component of cytochromes
  • Help maintain osmotic balance in seawater microbes
  • Develop when errors in membrane synthesis occur

Question 25

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

Question 26

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MacConkey agar selects for:
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  • Gram-negative enteric bacteria
  • Gram-positive bacteria
  • Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria
  • Haemolytic microorganisms

Question 27

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

Question 28

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With regards to bacterial plasmids which statement is the CORRECT one?
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  • Plasmids are extra chromosomal DNA that encode only resistance to antibiotics
  • Plasmids are a part of the bacterial chromosome
  • Plasmids are single stranded DNA found in some bacteria
  • Plasmids are extra chromosomal DNA molecules

Question 29

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Which is the TRUE statement below:
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  • Viruses do not infect microorganisms
  • All viruses are enveloped
  • All viruses cause disease
  • All viruses are parasites

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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Zoophilic dermatophytes are:
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  • normally associated with animals and humans
  • normally only associated with humans
  • mainly associated with the soil
  • mainly associated with contaminated water

Question 33

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Which of the following is primarily a respiratory pathogen?
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  • Vibrio cholerae
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Salmonella typhi
  • Mycobacterium leprae

Question 34

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Which of the following is NOT an acquired mechanism of antibiotic resistance in bacteria?
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  • Beta-lactamase production
  • Efflux pump antibiotic export
  • Lack of peptidoglycan
  • RNA polymerase single nucleotide change

Question 35

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With regard to the differences between bacterial and eukaryotic cells which statement is the CORRECT one?
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  • 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

Question 36

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Koch’s postulates most correctly relate to which one of the following statements?
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  • The isolation of a bacterium in culture from a human alone indicates that it causes disease
  • Determination in a series of logical steps the agent that causes disease
  • The observation of bacterial cells in tissue from a human with disease indicates that the observed bacterium has caused the disease
  • Inoculation of a bacterium into an animal to cause disease alone indicates that it is the cause of the disease observed

Question 37

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Which statement is CORRECT with respect to Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)?
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  • 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

Question 38

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A culture of E. coli is diluted by a factor of 10-6 and, after plating out 100 μl on an agar plate, 94 colonies grew after incubation at 37oC overnight. The original culture therefore contained how many viable E. coli cells per ml?
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  • 9.4 x 10(7)
  • 9.4 x 10(8)
  • 9.4 x 10(6)
  • 9.4 x 10(5)

Question 39

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With respect to differences between members of the archaeal and bacterial domains/kingdoms, which is the CORRECT statement?
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  • 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

Question 40

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Which statement is CORRECT with respect to peptidoglycan?
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  • 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
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