Microbiology Chapter 13 Exam Study Guide
Use this guide to direct your attention toward the information to be covered by the test.
(Chapter 13 in textbook)
1. How do bacteria differ from viruses?
2. Which viral characteristic most separates
viruses from living organisms?
3. Why can viruses not be grown on culture
medium?
16. With health-care workers, what is most
likely the most common route of accidental
HIV infection?
17. What is the correct order for DNA-virus
replication?
18. What is the definition of a viral species?
4. Which of the following viral growth
methods involves viruses being grown in a
petri dish?
5. Which step of viral multiplication do animal
and bacterial viruses have the least
differences?
6. Which bacteriophage life cycle involves the
incorporation of viral DNA into the host’s
genome?
7. What is the term for an infectious piece of
RNA that infects plants?
19. Where do viruses get the needed catabolic
enzymes for reproduction?
20. Which type of viral infections can
sometimes not cause symptoms?
21. Which term describes the inserted DNA of a
latent virus into a host’s genome?
22. What is the third step of viral multiplication
for an enveloped virus such as herpes?
8. What is the definition of a complex virus?
23. Which term describes the exchange of
genetic material between bacteria via a
bacteriophage?
9. What are the building blocks of the protein
coats surrounding viruses?
24. Which viral life cycle results in the lysing of
the host cell?
10. On a lawn of bacteria infected with
bacteriophages, which term describes the
areas of dead bacterial cells?
11. Which term describes an infectious protein?
12. What is required for the reproduction of a
prion?
13. Which type of infection occurs over a long
period of time and is usually fatal?
14. During which stage of viral multiplication is
an envelope acquired?
15. What is an example of a latent viral
infection?
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