MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Microorganism
Answer: Organism too small to see without magnification.
●● Prokaryote
Answer: Cell without nucleus or membrane-bound organelles.
●● Eukaryote
Answer: Cell with nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
●● Virus
Answer: Acellular particle made of nucleic acid and protein.
●● Pathogen
Answer: Microbe that causes disease.
●● Opportunistic Pathogen
Answer: Normally harmless microbe that causes disease under certain
conditions.
,●● Nonpathogen
Answer: Microbe that does not cause disease.
●● Infectious Disease
Answer: Disease caused by growth of a pathogen in the body.
●● Microbial Intoxication
Answer: Disease caused by microbial toxins.
●● Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Answer: Father of Microbiology; first to observe bacteria.
●● Louis Pasteur
Answer: Disproved spontaneous generation; developed pasteurization.
●● Robert Koch
Answer: Developed Koch's Postulates and Germ Theory.
●● Spontaneous Generation
Answer: Life arising from nonliving matter.
, ●● Biogenesis
Answer: Life comes from existing life.
●● Germ Theory
Answer: Microorganisms cause disease.
●● Taxonomy
Answer: Classification and naming of organisms.
●● Binomial Nomenclature
Answer: Two-part scientific naming system.
●● Genus
Answer: First part of scientific name.
●● Species
Answer: Second part of scientific name.
●● Domain
Answer: Highest classification level.
●● Archaea
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Microorganism
Answer: Organism too small to see without magnification.
●● Prokaryote
Answer: Cell without nucleus or membrane-bound organelles.
●● Eukaryote
Answer: Cell with nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
●● Virus
Answer: Acellular particle made of nucleic acid and protein.
●● Pathogen
Answer: Microbe that causes disease.
●● Opportunistic Pathogen
Answer: Normally harmless microbe that causes disease under certain
conditions.
,●● Nonpathogen
Answer: Microbe that does not cause disease.
●● Infectious Disease
Answer: Disease caused by growth of a pathogen in the body.
●● Microbial Intoxication
Answer: Disease caused by microbial toxins.
●● Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Answer: Father of Microbiology; first to observe bacteria.
●● Louis Pasteur
Answer: Disproved spontaneous generation; developed pasteurization.
●● Robert Koch
Answer: Developed Koch's Postulates and Germ Theory.
●● Spontaneous Generation
Answer: Life arising from nonliving matter.
, ●● Biogenesis
Answer: Life comes from existing life.
●● Germ Theory
Answer: Microorganisms cause disease.
●● Taxonomy
Answer: Classification and naming of organisms.
●● Binomial Nomenclature
Answer: Two-part scientific naming system.
●● Genus
Answer: First part of scientific name.
●● Species
Answer: Second part of scientific name.
●● Domain
Answer: Highest classification level.
●● Archaea