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Grade 10 Microbiology

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Which structure of the virus is represented by the number 3?
Common Virus
  1. collar
  2. head
  3. tail fibers
  4. base plate
Grade 10 Microbiology
How many cells is a unicellular organism made of?
  1. one
  2. two or more
  3. three or more
  4. five
Grade 10 Microbiology
Bacteria show a great diversity in the processes they use to obtain energy.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Microbiology
What does the term anaerobic mean?
  1. pertaining to a bacteria that lives and grows in the absence of oxygen
  2. pertaining to a bacteria that needs oxygen to live and reproduce
Grade 10 Microbiology
Bacteria that are shaped like globes, or spheres, are called
  1. circular.
  2. spirillum.
  3. rods.
  4. coccus.
Grade 10 Microbiology
Why should surfaces that touch food be sanitized?
  1. to provide a place for bacteria to grow
  2. to destroy microorganisms
  3. to clean up moisture that harbors bacteria
  4. to remove food particles
Grade 10 Microbiology
All monerans are prokaryotic, meaning they contain no organized nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Microbiology
What is caused by a viral infection?
  1. common cold
  2. anthrax
  3. plague
  4. MRSA
  5. bacterial meningitis
Grade 10 Microbiology
There are four ways a bacterium can become resistant to antibiotics. What are they? Select all that apply.
  1. conjugation
  2. reproduction
  3. transformation
  4. transduction
  5. mutation
  6. elimination
Grade 10 Microbiology
Which viral life cycle occurs when virus genetic material is integrated with the cell’s info and the attacked cell expresses the viral genes that code for those proteins that make up the virus, thus reproducing itself?
  1. lysogenic
  2. lytic
  3. lysosome
Grade 10 Microbiology
The process by which one strain of bacteria is apparently changed into another strain is
  1. transcription.
  2. translation.
  3. transformation.
  4. replication.
Grade 10 Microbiology
HIV can be spread through which mode of transmission?
  1. air
  2. blood
  3. vector
  4. casual contact
Grade 10 Microbiology
The study of microorganisms is zoology.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Microbiology
The difference between the versions of plague is simply the location of the infection in the body: the bubonic plague is infection of the lymphatic system, the pneumonic plague is infection of the respiratory system, and the septicemic plague is infection in the bloodstream.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Microbiology
What describes the function of "bad bacteria"?
  1. cause formation of various foods
  2. present in our digestive system
  3. cause disease
Grade 10 Microbiology
What type of bacteria are not able to use oxygen to produce energy?
  1. chemoheterotrophs
  2. facultative anaerobes
  3. obligate aerobes
  4. aerotolerant anaerobes
Grade 10 Microbiology
What describes the function of "good bacteria"?
  1. cause formation of various foods
  2. present in our digestive system
  3. cause disease
Grade 10 Microbiology
Microorganisms require water if they are to be metabolically active.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Microbiology
Viruses reproduce by infecting cells.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Microbiology
Prokaryotic cells have many DNA molecules.
  1. True
  2. False
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