Microbiology Exam 1 GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
3 types of transport protein - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅uniport
antiport
symport-coupled
Acid Fast Cell Walls: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- like gram positive cell walls
- waxy lipid (mycolic aid)
-mycobacterium
Nocardia: resist the decolorization with acid alcohol
Actinomycetes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅look like molds but their cells are prokaryotic
they have filamentous growth are some produce asexual spores
Genus streptomyces produces feosmin which gives soil its "fresh dirt smell"
also produces many different antibiotics
Agostino Bassi - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Believed that silk worm disease was caused by a fungus
Alexander Fleming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅• Discovered the 1st antibiotic
• It was penicillin and it was totally found by accident
Staphylacoccus agnues
algology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅study of algae
,Amphitrichous - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
anareobic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅don't require O2 for growth
Antiport - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅2 molecules in 2 different directions
Anton van Leeuwenhook - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅• 1st cells observed under the microscope
also made the original electron microscope : 10 mil X
archaea - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅♣ Can resist severe conditions
♣ Lack peptidoglycan
♣ Based off of Eukaraya
♣ Methanogens
• Anaerobic
o O2 is toxic
• Produce methane
♣ Extreme halophiles
• Require salt concentration of around 2.5%
o The normal human salt percentage is around .9%
♣ Hyperthermophiles
• Require growth temperature of around 80 degrees Celsius
Archaea - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅wall less or wall of pseudomurein
(lack NAM and D-amino acids)
Areobic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅requires O2 for growth
, arrangements - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅diplo: pairs
staphylo: clusters
strepto: chains
Autoclave specificiations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅121 degrees celsius
18 psi
30-60 minutes
Avain influenza A (H5N1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅influenza A virus
primarily in waterfowl and poultry
sustained human to human transmission has not yet occurred
zoonotic: virus transfered from animal to human
bacillus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Bacillus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅aerobic
gram positive
found in the soil
could survive dessication
Bacillus anthrasis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Anthrax (Wool's Disease)
CORRECT ANSWERS
3 types of transport protein - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅uniport
antiport
symport-coupled
Acid Fast Cell Walls: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- like gram positive cell walls
- waxy lipid (mycolic aid)
-mycobacterium
Nocardia: resist the decolorization with acid alcohol
Actinomycetes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅look like molds but their cells are prokaryotic
they have filamentous growth are some produce asexual spores
Genus streptomyces produces feosmin which gives soil its "fresh dirt smell"
also produces many different antibiotics
Agostino Bassi - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Believed that silk worm disease was caused by a fungus
Alexander Fleming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅• Discovered the 1st antibiotic
• It was penicillin and it was totally found by accident
Staphylacoccus agnues
algology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅study of algae
,Amphitrichous - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
anareobic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅don't require O2 for growth
Antiport - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅2 molecules in 2 different directions
Anton van Leeuwenhook - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅• 1st cells observed under the microscope
also made the original electron microscope : 10 mil X
archaea - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅♣ Can resist severe conditions
♣ Lack peptidoglycan
♣ Based off of Eukaraya
♣ Methanogens
• Anaerobic
o O2 is toxic
• Produce methane
♣ Extreme halophiles
• Require salt concentration of around 2.5%
o The normal human salt percentage is around .9%
♣ Hyperthermophiles
• Require growth temperature of around 80 degrees Celsius
Archaea - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅wall less or wall of pseudomurein
(lack NAM and D-amino acids)
Areobic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅requires O2 for growth
, arrangements - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅diplo: pairs
staphylo: clusters
strepto: chains
Autoclave specificiations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅121 degrees celsius
18 psi
30-60 minutes
Avain influenza A (H5N1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅influenza A virus
primarily in waterfowl and poultry
sustained human to human transmission has not yet occurred
zoonotic: virus transfered from animal to human
bacillus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Bacillus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅aerobic
gram positive
found in the soil
could survive dessication
Bacillus anthrasis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Anthrax (Wool's Disease)
