MICROBIOLOGY JERSEY COLLEGE CORE EXAMS SET
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A++
✔✔Salmonellosis - ✔✔All of the following are considered to be zoonotic disease except
✔✔Francisella tularensis - ✔✔"Rabbit fever" a zoonotic disease, is caused by
✔✔Rickettsia rickettsii - ✔✔Rocky Mountain spotted fever is caused by
✔✔5 - ✔✔Cytomegalovirus infections are caused by the human herpes virus
✔✔Protozoan - ✔✔Malaria is caused by a
✔✔Toxoplasmosis - ✔✔Which of the following is a disease caused by a protozoan?
✔✔Rabbit fever - ✔✔Tularemia is also referred to as
✔✔Vectors - ✔✔Animals that are capable of transmitting infectious disease are called
✔✔Plague - ✔✔The bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for causing what disease?
✔✔Pericarditis - ✔✔The term used to describe an inflammation of the sac-like
membrane surrounding the heart is
✔✔Rheumatic fever - ✔✔An inflammatory disease that can develop as a complication
following a group A streptococcal infection is
✔✔IgA - ✔✔The antibody found in body secretions is
✔✔A protein produced by plasma cells - ✔✔An antibody is
✔✔Plasma cells - ✔✔Which of the following cell types secretes antibodies?
✔✔Interferons - ✔✔Which of the following provide defense against viral infections?
✔✔Basophil - ✔✔Which of the following cells is a granulocyte?
✔✔Naturally acquired active immunity - ✔✔Immunity that is a result of an actual
infection is called
✔✔Pyrogen - ✔✔A substance capable of raising the body temperature is
, ✔✔Allograft - ✔✔When an organ or tissue is transplanted between genetically different
individuals it is called a(n)
✔✔Rheumatoid arthritis - ✔✔Which of the following is a systemic autoimmune disease?
✔✔pH of the skin - ✔✔Which of the following is not part of the second line of defense?
✔✔Interferons - ✔✔Cells infected with a virus produce glycoproteins that interfere with
viral replication and impede its spread; these glycoproteins are called
✔✔Skin - ✔✔The first line of defense that prevents microbes from entering the body
includes
✔✔Killer T cells, helper T cells, suppressor T cells, memory T cells - ✔✔T cells (T
lymphocytes) are divided into four categories:
✔✔IgM - ✔✔_______________ is a pentamer and the largest of the immunoglobulins.
✔✔IgA - ✔✔The category of immunoglobulins that can also be found in colostrum and
mother's milk is
✔✔Karl Ereky - ✔✔The term "biotechnology" was created in 1919 by
✔✔Stanley Cohen - ✔✔Which of the following scientists was instrumental in the
discovery of plasmids?
✔✔It involves modification of an organism's genome - ✔✔Which of the following is a
true statement about recombinant DNA technology?
✔✔Transformation - ✔✔The genetic recombination process that occurs when bacteria
acquire fragments of DNA from the local environment and then express the encoded
proteins is called
✔✔Conjugation - ✔✔A genetic recombination process that uses a cytoplasmic bridge
between the donor and the recipient is called
✔✔Restriction enzymes - ✔✔The term endonuclease refers to
✔✔Plasmids - ✔✔Small loops of DNA found in the cytoplasm of bacteria are
✔✔Translation - ✔✔All of the following are steps in the polymerase chain reaction
except
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A++
✔✔Salmonellosis - ✔✔All of the following are considered to be zoonotic disease except
✔✔Francisella tularensis - ✔✔"Rabbit fever" a zoonotic disease, is caused by
✔✔Rickettsia rickettsii - ✔✔Rocky Mountain spotted fever is caused by
✔✔5 - ✔✔Cytomegalovirus infections are caused by the human herpes virus
✔✔Protozoan - ✔✔Malaria is caused by a
✔✔Toxoplasmosis - ✔✔Which of the following is a disease caused by a protozoan?
✔✔Rabbit fever - ✔✔Tularemia is also referred to as
✔✔Vectors - ✔✔Animals that are capable of transmitting infectious disease are called
✔✔Plague - ✔✔The bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for causing what disease?
✔✔Pericarditis - ✔✔The term used to describe an inflammation of the sac-like
membrane surrounding the heart is
✔✔Rheumatic fever - ✔✔An inflammatory disease that can develop as a complication
following a group A streptococcal infection is
✔✔IgA - ✔✔The antibody found in body secretions is
✔✔A protein produced by plasma cells - ✔✔An antibody is
✔✔Plasma cells - ✔✔Which of the following cell types secretes antibodies?
✔✔Interferons - ✔✔Which of the following provide defense against viral infections?
✔✔Basophil - ✔✔Which of the following cells is a granulocyte?
✔✔Naturally acquired active immunity - ✔✔Immunity that is a result of an actual
infection is called
✔✔Pyrogen - ✔✔A substance capable of raising the body temperature is
, ✔✔Allograft - ✔✔When an organ or tissue is transplanted between genetically different
individuals it is called a(n)
✔✔Rheumatoid arthritis - ✔✔Which of the following is a systemic autoimmune disease?
✔✔pH of the skin - ✔✔Which of the following is not part of the second line of defense?
✔✔Interferons - ✔✔Cells infected with a virus produce glycoproteins that interfere with
viral replication and impede its spread; these glycoproteins are called
✔✔Skin - ✔✔The first line of defense that prevents microbes from entering the body
includes
✔✔Killer T cells, helper T cells, suppressor T cells, memory T cells - ✔✔T cells (T
lymphocytes) are divided into four categories:
✔✔IgM - ✔✔_______________ is a pentamer and the largest of the immunoglobulins.
✔✔IgA - ✔✔The category of immunoglobulins that can also be found in colostrum and
mother's milk is
✔✔Karl Ereky - ✔✔The term "biotechnology" was created in 1919 by
✔✔Stanley Cohen - ✔✔Which of the following scientists was instrumental in the
discovery of plasmids?
✔✔It involves modification of an organism's genome - ✔✔Which of the following is a
true statement about recombinant DNA technology?
✔✔Transformation - ✔✔The genetic recombination process that occurs when bacteria
acquire fragments of DNA from the local environment and then express the encoded
proteins is called
✔✔Conjugation - ✔✔A genetic recombination process that uses a cytoplasmic bridge
between the donor and the recipient is called
✔✔Restriction enzymes - ✔✔The term endonuclease refers to
✔✔Plasmids - ✔✔Small loops of DNA found in the cytoplasm of bacteria are
✔✔Translation - ✔✔All of the following are steps in the polymerase chain reaction
except
