MICROBIO 303 Exam queries and
answers graded A+
Why study microbiology? - ANS✅✅microbes are essential to human life
How many bacteria cells on/in human body? - ANS✅✅100 trillion
What do our normal microbiota do? - ANS✅✅- defend
- stimulate immune system
- protects from allergies and autoimmune disease
- detoxify
"old friend" hypothesis - ANS✅✅early exposure to certain microbes help body distinguish friendly
and harmful microbes
what hosts symbiotic microbes? - ANS✅✅all macroorganisms
infectious disease is caused by microbe but..... - ANS✅✅not all microbes cause disease
has the death rate of infectious diseases increased or decreased? why? - ANS✅✅decreased due to
health departments, sanitation, antibiotics, vaccines
what are some diseases that have been eradicated? - ANS✅✅polio and smallpox
the plague killed what portion of European population - ANS✅✅1/3
emerging infectious disease - ANS✅✅infectious disease that has become more common in last 35
years
what causes emerging disease - ANS✅✅- change in lifestyle
- decline in vaccinations
- pathogens become resistant
answers graded A+
Why study microbiology? - ANS✅✅microbes are essential to human life
How many bacteria cells on/in human body? - ANS✅✅100 trillion
What do our normal microbiota do? - ANS✅✅- defend
- stimulate immune system
- protects from allergies and autoimmune disease
- detoxify
"old friend" hypothesis - ANS✅✅early exposure to certain microbes help body distinguish friendly
and harmful microbes
what hosts symbiotic microbes? - ANS✅✅all macroorganisms
infectious disease is caused by microbe but..... - ANS✅✅not all microbes cause disease
has the death rate of infectious diseases increased or decreased? why? - ANS✅✅decreased due to
health departments, sanitation, antibiotics, vaccines
what are some diseases that have been eradicated? - ANS✅✅polio and smallpox
the plague killed what portion of European population - ANS✅✅1/3
emerging infectious disease - ANS✅✅infectious disease that has become more common in last 35
years
what causes emerging disease - ANS✅✅- change in lifestyle
- decline in vaccinations
- pathogens become resistant