BIOS 242 FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BIOS 242 FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. What is Microbiology?: The study of microscopic organisms 2. Major group of microorganisms: Bacteria, Viruses, protozoa, helminths, and fungi. All these are cellular organisms except for the Viruses. 3. Viruses: Cause harm to the host cell they infect. 4. Medical Microbiology: this branch deals with microbes that cause diseases in humans and animals. researchers examine factors that make the microbes virulent and mechanisms for inhibiting them 5. Public Health Microbiology and Epidemiology: These branches monitor and control the spread of diseases in communities 6. Immunology: This branch studies the complex web of protective substances and cells produced in response to infection.
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