MICROBIOLOGY JERSEY COLLEGE EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A++
✔✔(7) Which organisms has the highest resistance to most physical control methods? -
✔✔Bacterial endospores, Protozoan cysts
✔✔(7) What is the simplest form of dry heat sterilization for metals? - ✔✔Direct flaming
✔✔(7) What is sanitation? - ✔✔Process that lowers microbial counts to safe public
health levels.Ex. cleaning glassware and tableware in restaurants .
✔✔(7) How long should you boil items in water to kill most vegetative bacteria and
viruses? - ✔✔10 - 15 minutes
✔✔(7) What is the technique that combines freezing and drying to preserve microbes
and other cells? - ✔✔Lyophilization
✔✔(7) Which of the following is not a form of ionizing radiation?
UV light, Gamma rays, Electron beams, X-rays. - ✔✔UV light
✔✔(7) Which procedure is the term "zone of inhibition" used? - ✔✔Disk diffusion test
✔✔(7) chlorine belongs to which chemical group from the periodic table? - ✔✔Halogens
✔✔(7) Is sterilization a method for food preservation? - ✔✔No
✔✔(7) What is the destruction of vegetative organisms by chemical or physical
methods? - ✔✔Disinfectantion
✔✔(7) What is the term used to describe an agent that causes microbial growth to come
to a standstill? - ✔✔Microbiostatic
✔✔(7) What is the lowest temperature at which all microorganisms in a particular liquid
will be killed within 10 minutes called? - ✔✔Thermal death point
✔✔(7) what are antimicrobial agents that are specifically designed to be used on living
tissues? - ✔✔Antiseptics
✔✔(7) what classification are agents that kill microbes? - ✔✔Microbicidal
✔✔(7) what is decontamination? - ✔✔Reduction or removal of chemical or biological
agents so that they no longer present a hazard.
, ✔✔(7) what are the 2 different types of pasteurization controlled by the US Department
of Agriculture? - ✔✔HIST and UHT
✔✔(19) Pyelonephritis - ✔✔kidney infection that can cause permanent damage to the
kidneys
✔✔(19) What is the bacterium that causes UTI? - ✔✔E. Coli
✔✔(19) How to diagnose a UTI? - ✔✔2 step process: Collect a urine sample then test
for antibiotic susceptibility of the organism.
✔✔(19) What are preventative measures for UTI's? - ✔✔Urinating soon after sex, taking
showers instead of baths, urination upon urge
✔✔(19) Group most susceptible to recurring UTI's? - ✔✔Women
✔✔(19) Define Cystitis? - ✔✔UTI involving infection of the urinary bladder
✔✔(19) How to treat a UTI? - ✔✔Antibiotic amoxicillin
✔✔(19) What are typical symptoms of a UTI? - ✔✔Painful and cloudy urine
✔✔(19) What anatomical features in women can increase the possibility of a UTI? -
✔✔Shorter urethra, close proximity of the anus to the urethral opening
✔✔(19) What is another name for glomerulonephritis? - ✔✔Brights disease
✔✔(19) What organisms are usually associated with a UTI? - ✔✔Chlymydia and
Mycoplasma from sexual activity
✔✔(20) what are some bacterial infections of the female reproductive system? -
✔✔Vaginitis, TSS, endometritis, salpingitis
✔✔(20) what are some bacteria that have been identified as frequently responsible for
non sexually transmitted infections of the reproductive system? - ✔✔E-coli, Gardnerella
vaginalis, staphylococcus Aurorus
✔✔(20) what is the most common bacterial non sexually transmitted infection of the
male reproductive system? - ✔✔Prostatitis
✔✔(20) what best characterizes the normal flora in a healthy male reproductive
system? - ✔✔Sterile, no normal flora
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A++
✔✔(7) Which organisms has the highest resistance to most physical control methods? -
✔✔Bacterial endospores, Protozoan cysts
✔✔(7) What is the simplest form of dry heat sterilization for metals? - ✔✔Direct flaming
✔✔(7) What is sanitation? - ✔✔Process that lowers microbial counts to safe public
health levels.Ex. cleaning glassware and tableware in restaurants .
✔✔(7) How long should you boil items in water to kill most vegetative bacteria and
viruses? - ✔✔10 - 15 minutes
✔✔(7) What is the technique that combines freezing and drying to preserve microbes
and other cells? - ✔✔Lyophilization
✔✔(7) Which of the following is not a form of ionizing radiation?
UV light, Gamma rays, Electron beams, X-rays. - ✔✔UV light
✔✔(7) Which procedure is the term "zone of inhibition" used? - ✔✔Disk diffusion test
✔✔(7) chlorine belongs to which chemical group from the periodic table? - ✔✔Halogens
✔✔(7) Is sterilization a method for food preservation? - ✔✔No
✔✔(7) What is the destruction of vegetative organisms by chemical or physical
methods? - ✔✔Disinfectantion
✔✔(7) What is the term used to describe an agent that causes microbial growth to come
to a standstill? - ✔✔Microbiostatic
✔✔(7) What is the lowest temperature at which all microorganisms in a particular liquid
will be killed within 10 minutes called? - ✔✔Thermal death point
✔✔(7) what are antimicrobial agents that are specifically designed to be used on living
tissues? - ✔✔Antiseptics
✔✔(7) what classification are agents that kill microbes? - ✔✔Microbicidal
✔✔(7) what is decontamination? - ✔✔Reduction or removal of chemical or biological
agents so that they no longer present a hazard.
, ✔✔(7) what are the 2 different types of pasteurization controlled by the US Department
of Agriculture? - ✔✔HIST and UHT
✔✔(19) Pyelonephritis - ✔✔kidney infection that can cause permanent damage to the
kidneys
✔✔(19) What is the bacterium that causes UTI? - ✔✔E. Coli
✔✔(19) How to diagnose a UTI? - ✔✔2 step process: Collect a urine sample then test
for antibiotic susceptibility of the organism.
✔✔(19) What are preventative measures for UTI's? - ✔✔Urinating soon after sex, taking
showers instead of baths, urination upon urge
✔✔(19) Group most susceptible to recurring UTI's? - ✔✔Women
✔✔(19) Define Cystitis? - ✔✔UTI involving infection of the urinary bladder
✔✔(19) How to treat a UTI? - ✔✔Antibiotic amoxicillin
✔✔(19) What are typical symptoms of a UTI? - ✔✔Painful and cloudy urine
✔✔(19) What anatomical features in women can increase the possibility of a UTI? -
✔✔Shorter urethra, close proximity of the anus to the urethral opening
✔✔(19) What is another name for glomerulonephritis? - ✔✔Brights disease
✔✔(19) What organisms are usually associated with a UTI? - ✔✔Chlymydia and
Mycoplasma from sexual activity
✔✔(20) what are some bacterial infections of the female reproductive system? -
✔✔Vaginitis, TSS, endometritis, salpingitis
✔✔(20) what are some bacteria that have been identified as frequently responsible for
non sexually transmitted infections of the reproductive system? - ✔✔E-coli, Gardnerella
vaginalis, staphylococcus Aurorus
✔✔(20) what is the most common bacterial non sexually transmitted infection of the
male reproductive system? - ✔✔Prostatitis
✔✔(20) what best characterizes the normal flora in a healthy male reproductive
system? - ✔✔Sterile, no normal flora
