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Microbiology practice exam answers. Practice exams were given in class as homework/extra credit and these are all of the answers to the bank.

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1.​ After attachment, what is the next step in a successful disease causing infection?
Colonization
2.​ After this process, what is the next step in the viral life cycle?




Replication
3.​ A large scale outbreak of a disease all over the world is called:
Pandemic
4.​ Adhesins:
Help bacteria attach
5.​ A mycelium is:
A mass of hyphae
6.​ Antibiotic resistance genes:
All of the above
7.​ Antibiotic resistance is a problem now mostly because of:
Selection
8.​ Antibiotics which do not kill bacteria are:
Bacteriostatic
9.​ A superantigen:
Activates T cells
10.​Attenuated strains of bacteria:
Are less able to cause disease than other bacteria
11.​ A virus with more than one piece of nucleic acid is:
Segmented
12.​Bacteria can become antibiotic resistant by
All of the above
13.​Bacteria which one acquires through drinking contaminated water are spreading by
Fecal oral transmission
14.​Beta-lactamases provide resistance against:
Penicillin
15.​Beta-lactamases:
Cleave penicillin
16.​Botulism toxin causes:
Flaccid paralysis
17.​Clostridium botulinum toxin is:
Neurotoxin
18.​Conjugation involves:
F plasmid
19.​D could be:

, More than one of the above
20.​Deuteromycetes
Are imperfect fungi
21.​Diarrhea helps a disease spread by:
Fecal oral spread
22.​Diseases acquired from animals are:
Zoonotic infections
23.​During a lysogenic cycle, viruses
Insert DNA into the host chromosome
24.​Endotoxin is:
A part of gram negative cell walls
25.​Entamoeba histolytica causes:
Amoebic dysentry
26.​Enteric organisms are usually found:
In the intestine
27.​Enveloped viruses can enter a cell by:
Membrane fusion
28.​Enveloped viruses leave host cells by:
Budding
29.​Exfoliative toxins, which are involved in scalded skin syndrome, are:
Proteases
30.​Fibronectin is found:
In the extracellular matrix
31.​Food poisoning from eating potato salad that has been out too long at a picnic is caused by:
An enterotoxin
32.​Fungi whose sexual reproduction method has not been observed used to be classified as:
Deuteromycetes
33.​Giardia:
Is a flagellate
34.​Giardia lamblia is a:
Flagellate
35.​Gram + bacteria cannot produce:
Endotoxin
36.​How do beta lactam antibiotics function?
Preventing addition of new peptidoglycan to the cell wall
37.​Inanimate objects which may harbor bacteria are:
Fomites
38.​Inanimate objects which may transmit disease are called

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