The bacterial spore is present in some bacteria especially those belonging to the Genus

Bacillus and Genus Clostridium. It is composed of:*

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Calcium dipicolinate

poly-D glutamic acid

peptidoglycan

polysaccharide

What do you call the specific process in which microbes are used in decomposing
industrial wastes?*

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Bioremediation

Biotechnology

Mineralization

Decomposition

Statement 1: Solid media are prepared by adding agar to liquid media and then pouring
the media into tubes or Petri dishes, where the media solidified. Statement 2:
Enrichment medium is a solid medium containing a rich supply of special nutrients that
promotes the growth of fastidious organisms.*

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ONLY statement 1 is correct

 ONLY statement 2 is correct

Both statements are incorrect

Both statements are correct

Choose the binomial name that is correctly written. <i-italicized>*

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Escherichia Coli <i>

Escherichia coli <i>

escherichia coli <i>

Escherichia coli

The type of pili that is responsible for attachment or adhesion to surfaces or body
parts.*

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Common pili

Sex pili

F pili

long conjugation pili

A laboratory analyst prepares 500 mL Blood Agar Plates in an Erlenmeyer flask for her
analyses on the following day. What will be the next step after completely dissolving and
heating the prepared agar?*

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 Dispense the agar in the Petri dishes and autoclave

Autoclave the pre-heated medium and dispense to the Petri dishes once it started to cool
down but not allowing the media to solidify

Store the flask with the agar in a temperature-controlled refrigerator and dispense on the day
of the analysis.

All of the above

Patient X ate hamburger yesterday. After 2 hours, she suffered diarrhea and vomiting.
The final diagnosis is staphylococcal food poisoning. What do you call this type of
disease?*

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Infectious disease

Microbial intoxication

Opportunistic disease

Microbial enemies

Statement 1: Indigenous microbiota are beneficial to human. Statement 2: Opportunistic

pathogens do not cause disease under ordinary conditions. *

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ONLY Statement 1 is correct.

ONLY Statement 2 is correct.

Both statements are correct

Both statements are incorrect.

All bacteria are prokaryote except:*

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Mycoplasma with sterols

Mycobacterium

Micrococcus

None of the above

Most algal cell walls contain:

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Peptidoglycan

Chitin

Lipoprotein

Cellulose

What do you call those bacteria that require the presence of oxygen?*

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aerobes

anaerobes

intracellular pathogens
 fastidious pathogens

There are 2 major categories of microbes. All are caused by acellular microbes,
EXCEPT:*

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COVID-19

Mad Cow disease

Anthrax

Hepatitis B disease

When testing for coagulase properties, staphylococcal isolates from 67-year-old male
diabetic patient showed a positive tube test (free coagulase). The organism should be
identified as:*

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Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus haemolyticus

Staphylococcus saprophyticus

Micrococcus luteus

All of the following genera are anaerobic cocci that stain gram positive except:*

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Peptococcus spp.
 Streptococcus spp.

Veillonella spp.

Peptostreptococcus

All of the following are true except:*

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Most protozoa are single-celled free-living microorganisms.

Parasitic protozoa break down and absorb nutrients from the body of the host in which they
live.

Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites

Bacteria motility is most often associated with cilia

Patient Z is diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. What is the causative agent of the
disease?*

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Schistosoma japonicum

Treponema pallidum

Yersinia pestis

All of the following are true except:

*
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Most protozoa are single-celled free-living microorganisms.

Parasitic protozoa break down and absorb nutrients from the body of the host in which they
live.

Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites

Bacteria motility is most often associated with cilia

Bacteria motility is most often associated with:*

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Cilia

Flagella

Tail

Both A and B

Gram staining procedure is developed by:*

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Hans Christian Graham

Alexander Graham Bell

Hans Christian Gram

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Which type of microscope uses a special condenser to direct light onto the specimen
from oblique angles only?*

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Dark-field microscope

Interference contrast

Phase-contrast microscope

Bright-field microscope

What do you call those liquid culture media placed on tubes?*

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Agar

Broth

Enriched media

All of the above

What is the ideal temperature of an incubator for the microbes to grow and replicate?*

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27°C

25°C

30°C
 36°C

One of the ways in which fungi reproduce is through?*

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Spore production

Assembly

Budding (Yeast)

Both A and C

A well-defined structure of polysaccharide to protect the bacteria from phagocytosis and

desiccation:*

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Cell Wall

Cell Membrane

Capsule

Periplasmic space

All of the following are true about viruses except:*

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Its genetic material contain either RNA or DNA

Viruses are considered Prokaryotes

Its called bacteriophage if they have bacterial hosts

 It contain no organelles or biosynthetic machines, except few enzymes.

What biological kingdom do bacteria belong to?*

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Kingdom Animalia

Kingdom Monera

Kingdom Plantae

Kingdom Fungi

Most prokaryotic cells reproduce by:*

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Binary Fission

Gamete production

Binary Fusion

Both A and C

Treponema pallidum is best examined using what microscope?*

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Light microscope

Dark-field microscope

Phase-contrast microscope
 Bright-field microscope

A fabric merchant known for his invention the "simple microscopes".*

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Rudolf Virchow

Louis Pasteur

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Robert Koch

Metabolic reactions are enhanced and regulated by:*

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Enzymes

Vitamins

Carbohydrates

Cofactors