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1. What type of microorganisms have both plant and animal characteristics?
Answer: Bacteria.
2. What microorganism can infect almost all plants and animals, including bacteria?
Answer: Viruses.
3. What type of organisms live on or in another living organism and draw nourishment from it?
Answer: Parasites.
4. What is the ability of the body to destroy and resist infection?
Answer: Immunity.
5. What is removing all visible dirt and debris from a surface called?
Answer: Sanitation.
6. What is the complete elimination of all microbial life, including spores, called?
Answer: Sterilization.
7. Who regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace?
Answer: OSHA.
,8. What is a document that provides information about hazardous ingredients, safe use and handling
procedures, precautions to reduce risk of harm, flammability, and proper disposal guidelines?
Answer: MSDS.
9. What agency licenses two types of disinfectants used in salons?
Answer: EPA.
10. What is the prohibition on selling antifungal products for finger and toenails without a medical
prescription?
Answer: FDA regulation.
11. What set of guidelines requires employers and employees to assume all human blood and body
fluids are infectious for bloodborne pathogens?
Answer: Universal Precautions.
12. What are the basic units of all living things, from bacteria to plants and animals?
Answer: Cells.
13. What is the colorless jelly-like substance in cells that contains food elements such as protein, fats,
carbohydrates, mineral salts, and water?
Answer: Protoplasm.
14. What is the dense, active protoplasm found in the center of a cell?
, Answer: Nucleus.
15. What is the term for all the protoplasm surrounding the nucleus in a cell?
Answer: Cytoplasm.
16. What is the thin, flexible barrier that surrounds all cells and regulates what enters and leaves the
cell?
Answer: Cell membrane.
17. What is the process by which cells divide into two identical cells called daughter cells?
Answer: Mitosis.
18. What is the set of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials
as it carries out its life processes?
Answer: Metabolism.
19. What is the process of building up complex materials from simple materials?
Answer: Anabolism.
20. What is the breakdown of complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy?
Answer: Catabolism.
1. What type of microorganisms have both plant and animal characteristics?
Answer: Bacteria.
2. What microorganism can infect almost all plants and animals, including bacteria?
Answer: Viruses.
3. What type of organisms live on or in another living organism and draw nourishment from it?
Answer: Parasites.
4. What is the ability of the body to destroy and resist infection?
Answer: Immunity.
5. What is removing all visible dirt and debris from a surface called?
Answer: Sanitation.
6. What is the complete elimination of all microbial life, including spores, called?
Answer: Sterilization.
7. Who regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace?
Answer: OSHA.
,8. What is a document that provides information about hazardous ingredients, safe use and handling
procedures, precautions to reduce risk of harm, flammability, and proper disposal guidelines?
Answer: MSDS.
9. What agency licenses two types of disinfectants used in salons?
Answer: EPA.
10. What is the prohibition on selling antifungal products for finger and toenails without a medical
prescription?
Answer: FDA regulation.
11. What set of guidelines requires employers and employees to assume all human blood and body
fluids are infectious for bloodborne pathogens?
Answer: Universal Precautions.
12. What are the basic units of all living things, from bacteria to plants and animals?
Answer: Cells.
13. What is the colorless jelly-like substance in cells that contains food elements such as protein, fats,
carbohydrates, mineral salts, and water?
Answer: Protoplasm.
14. What is the dense, active protoplasm found in the center of a cell?
, Answer: Nucleus.
15. What is the term for all the protoplasm surrounding the nucleus in a cell?
Answer: Cytoplasm.
16. What is the thin, flexible barrier that surrounds all cells and regulates what enters and leaves the
cell?
Answer: Cell membrane.
17. What is the process by which cells divide into two identical cells called daughter cells?
Answer: Mitosis.
18. What is the set of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials
as it carries out its life processes?
Answer: Metabolism.
19. What is the process of building up complex materials from simple materials?
Answer: Anabolism.
20. What is the breakdown of complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy?
Answer: Catabolism.
