SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ classifications of microorganisms. Answer: prokaryote, eukaryotes,
and viruses
◉ indigenous microflora (opportunistic pathogens). Answer: microbes
that live on the skin and inside the human body (bacteria, fungi, viruses,
protozoa)
◉ opportunistic pathogens. Answer: harmless under normal
circumstances until given opportunity to enter the body by
surgery/traumatic wound and become a pathogen
◉ human-microbe relationships. Answer: symbiosis, commensalism,
parasitism, and impact on humans
◉ symbiosis. Answer: interaction or relationship between human hosts
and indigenous microflora; relationship may be harmless, harmful, or
beneficial
, ◉ symbiont. Answer: refers to both organisms
◉ categories of symbiosis. Answer: mutualism, commensalism, and
parasitism
◉ mutualism. Answer: both organisms benefit from and depend on one
another to a certain extent
◉ organism. Answer: any contiguous living system, such as an animal,
plant, fungus, archaeon, or bacterium; all known types of organisms are
capable of some degree of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and
development and homeostasis
◉ microorganisms. Answer: includes nonpathogenic and parasitic life
forms; convert complex organic compounds into more simple forms
through the process of decay
◉ organic compounds. Answer: any molecules that are composed of the
element carbon
◉ commensalism. Answer: one organism benefits but second organism
neither benefits nor is harmed
◉ parasitism. Answer: one organism benefits and the host is harmed
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ classifications of microorganisms. Answer: prokaryote, eukaryotes,
and viruses
◉ indigenous microflora (opportunistic pathogens). Answer: microbes
that live on the skin and inside the human body (bacteria, fungi, viruses,
protozoa)
◉ opportunistic pathogens. Answer: harmless under normal
circumstances until given opportunity to enter the body by
surgery/traumatic wound and become a pathogen
◉ human-microbe relationships. Answer: symbiosis, commensalism,
parasitism, and impact on humans
◉ symbiosis. Answer: interaction or relationship between human hosts
and indigenous microflora; relationship may be harmless, harmful, or
beneficial
, ◉ symbiont. Answer: refers to both organisms
◉ categories of symbiosis. Answer: mutualism, commensalism, and
parasitism
◉ mutualism. Answer: both organisms benefit from and depend on one
another to a certain extent
◉ organism. Answer: any contiguous living system, such as an animal,
plant, fungus, archaeon, or bacterium; all known types of organisms are
capable of some degree of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and
development and homeostasis
◉ microorganisms. Answer: includes nonpathogenic and parasitic life
forms; convert complex organic compounds into more simple forms
through the process of decay
◉ organic compounds. Answer: any molecules that are composed of the
element carbon
◉ commensalism. Answer: one organism benefits but second organism
neither benefits nor is harmed
◉ parasitism. Answer: one organism benefits and the host is harmed
