MICROBIOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS A CLINICAL APPROACH EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL SOLVED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS

MICROBIOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS A CLINICAL
APPROACH EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS

◉ What does pathogenic mean? Answer: something causes disease


◉ What is nomenclature? Answer: Naming of organisms.


◉ Who is the scientist that invented scientific nomenclature?
Answer: Carolus Linnaeus.


◉ How do you know something is written in binomial
nomenclature? Answer: The words are italicized and the first one
(genus) is capitalized.


◉ What is the specific epithet? Answer: Species name.


◉ What is the genus in Escherichia Coli? Answer: Escherichia


◉ What is a prokaryote? Answer: A species with no nucleus but
instead a nucleoid center.

, ◉ What is a eukaryote? Answer: A species that has a nucleus.


◉ How is the genus written in binomial nomenclature? Answer:
Italicized and capitalized


◉ How is the species written in binomial nomenclature? Answer:
Italicized and not capitalized.


◉ What does bacillus mean? Answer: Rod like


◉ What does coccus mean? Answer: Spherical or ovoid


◉ What does spiral mean? Answer: Corkscrew or curved.


◉ What protects bacteria from the outside world? Answer: Cell wall.


◉ What does bacteria cell walls contain? Answer: Peptidoglycan


◉ What does fungi cell walls contain? Answer: chitin


◉ What does plant cell wall contain? Answer: cellulose