MICROBIOLOGY JERSEY COLLEGE MAIN EXAMINATION
MANUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED
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✔✔The toxic condition caused by the multiplication of bacteria in the blood is referred to
as - ✔✔septicemia
✔✔When microorganisms enter the circulatory system through the lymphatic drainage
and cause an infection, the condition is called - ✔✔Microbemia
✔✔Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease and rare complication caused by -
✔✔Strep throat
✔✔examples of zoonotic diseases - ✔✔Tularemia, brucellosis, rabies, parasites,
ringworm, cat scratch fever
✔✔"Rabbit fever" is a zoonotic disease caused by - ✔✔Francisella tularensis
✔✔Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - ✔✔Rickettsia rickettsii
✔✔Cytomegalovirus infections are caused by the human herpesvirus - ✔✔5
✔✔Malaria is caused by - ✔✔protozoan
✔✔Toxoplasmosis is caused by - ✔✔protozoan
✔✔gangrene - ✔✔A common complication of necrosis, often related to wounds
✔✔Any infectious disease or infection that can be transmitted from vertebrate animals
to humans is classified as - ✔✔zoonotic
✔✔When bacteria are found in the blood, the condition is referred to as - ✔✔bacteremia
✔✔The toxic condition caused by the spread of bacteria or bacterial toxins from site of
infection is called - ✔✔sepsis
✔✔Chagas' disease is caused by - ✔✔Trypanosoma Cruzi
✔✔dry gangrene - ✔✔late stages of gangrene; affected area becomes dried,
blackened, and shriveled
, ✔✔wet gangrene - ✔✔an area of gangrene that becomes secondarily infected by pus-
producing bacteria
✔✔viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) - ✔✔A group of diseases caused by viruses that
include the Ebola, Rift Valley, and yellow fevers, among others. This group of viruses
causes the blood in the body to seep out from the tissues and blood vessels.
✔✔Systemic mycoses - ✔✔fungal infections of the internal organs of the body
✔✔One type of microscope that provides a three-dimensional image of a specimen is a:
- ✔✔scanning electron microscope
✔✔One type of microscope capable of observing living micro organisms is the -
✔✔Phase-contrast microscope
✔✔Which scientist is most responsible for ending the controversy about spontaneous
generation? - ✔✔Louis Pasteur
✔✔Fossils of prokaryotes go back __________ billion years - ✔✔3.5-4
✔✔Which of the following is not a microorganism? - ✔✔insect
✔✔The correct descending order of the taxonomic categories is - ✔✔Domain, Kingdom,
Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
✔✔Complex communities of micro organisms on surfaces are called - ✔✔biofilms
✔✔A relationship between organisms in which the waste product of one provides
nutrients for another is called - ✔✔commensalism
✔✔Which of the following sites of the human body does not have a normal flora? -
✔✔blood
✔✔Which of the following industries use(s) microorganisms? - ✔✔chemical, wine,
cheese
✔✔The atomic number equals the number of - ✔✔protons
✔✔A chemical bond in which electrons are equally share is a(n) - ✔✔Nonpolar covalent
bond
✔✔The bond between water molecules is called what? - ✔✔hydrogen bond
MANUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED
A++
✔✔The toxic condition caused by the multiplication of bacteria in the blood is referred to
as - ✔✔septicemia
✔✔When microorganisms enter the circulatory system through the lymphatic drainage
and cause an infection, the condition is called - ✔✔Microbemia
✔✔Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease and rare complication caused by -
✔✔Strep throat
✔✔examples of zoonotic diseases - ✔✔Tularemia, brucellosis, rabies, parasites,
ringworm, cat scratch fever
✔✔"Rabbit fever" is a zoonotic disease caused by - ✔✔Francisella tularensis
✔✔Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - ✔✔Rickettsia rickettsii
✔✔Cytomegalovirus infections are caused by the human herpesvirus - ✔✔5
✔✔Malaria is caused by - ✔✔protozoan
✔✔Toxoplasmosis is caused by - ✔✔protozoan
✔✔gangrene - ✔✔A common complication of necrosis, often related to wounds
✔✔Any infectious disease or infection that can be transmitted from vertebrate animals
to humans is classified as - ✔✔zoonotic
✔✔When bacteria are found in the blood, the condition is referred to as - ✔✔bacteremia
✔✔The toxic condition caused by the spread of bacteria or bacterial toxins from site of
infection is called - ✔✔sepsis
✔✔Chagas' disease is caused by - ✔✔Trypanosoma Cruzi
✔✔dry gangrene - ✔✔late stages of gangrene; affected area becomes dried,
blackened, and shriveled
, ✔✔wet gangrene - ✔✔an area of gangrene that becomes secondarily infected by pus-
producing bacteria
✔✔viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) - ✔✔A group of diseases caused by viruses that
include the Ebola, Rift Valley, and yellow fevers, among others. This group of viruses
causes the blood in the body to seep out from the tissues and blood vessels.
✔✔Systemic mycoses - ✔✔fungal infections of the internal organs of the body
✔✔One type of microscope that provides a three-dimensional image of a specimen is a:
- ✔✔scanning electron microscope
✔✔One type of microscope capable of observing living micro organisms is the -
✔✔Phase-contrast microscope
✔✔Which scientist is most responsible for ending the controversy about spontaneous
generation? - ✔✔Louis Pasteur
✔✔Fossils of prokaryotes go back __________ billion years - ✔✔3.5-4
✔✔Which of the following is not a microorganism? - ✔✔insect
✔✔The correct descending order of the taxonomic categories is - ✔✔Domain, Kingdom,
Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
✔✔Complex communities of micro organisms on surfaces are called - ✔✔biofilms
✔✔A relationship between organisms in which the waste product of one provides
nutrients for another is called - ✔✔commensalism
✔✔Which of the following sites of the human body does not have a normal flora? -
✔✔blood
✔✔Which of the following industries use(s) microorganisms? - ✔✔chemical, wine,
cheese
✔✔The atomic number equals the number of - ✔✔protons
✔✔A chemical bond in which electrons are equally share is a(n) - ✔✔Nonpolar covalent
bond
✔✔The bond between water molecules is called what? - ✔✔hydrogen bond
