QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Autoclaving uses ________ to sterilize - ✔✔steam and pressure
✔✔If an antimicrobial agent is bacteriocidal, - ✔✔complete killing of bacteria occurs with
its use
✔✔The sterilization of hospital waste before disposal is very expensive. So, hospital
personnel are required to judge whether a waste needs to be sterilized before being
disposed. Which would least likely need to be sterilized before disposal? - ✔✔torn blood
pressure cuffs
✔✔A sterilant - ✔✔kills mycobacteria
kills fungi
inactivates viruses
kills endospores
✔✔What are twiddles and runs - ✔✔twiddles - random direction
runs - going in one direction for sometime
✔✔what is an axial filament - ✔✔internal flagella
, ✔✔which bacteria has internal flagella - ✔✔spirochete
✔✔monotrichous - ✔✔
✔✔amphitrichous - ✔✔
✔✔lophotrichous - ✔✔
✔✔peritrichous - ✔✔
✔✔prokaryotic cell - cell membrane made out of - ✔✔polysaccharides
✔✔Father of the microbiology - ✔✔Leeuwenhook
✔✔Spontaneous generation - ✔✔Aristotle
living organisms came from non living material.
✔✔who defeated the spontaneous generation - ✔✔Pasteur
by creating flask that air can enter but no mircoorganisms can enter
✔✔Koch - ✔✔pure cultures
use of agar and petri dishes
✔✔Koch's postulation - ✔✔1) all the dead hosts should have he same microorganism
2) isolate the microorganism and grow in pure culture
3)inoculate the grown microorganism to a healthy host
4) when healthy host has symptoms similar to the dead host check the microorganism
5) check the microorganisms in culture and should have the similar microorganism to
the dead host
✔✔jenner - ✔✔chicken pox vaccination
✔✔fleming - ✔✔penicillin
began field of chemotheraphy
✔✔mycology - ✔✔study of fungi
: ring worm
: athlete foot
✔✔bacteriology - ✔✔study of bacteria
✔✔virology - ✔✔study of virus