Microbiology
Intro. To Micro/ Virus Review
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What is microbiology?
What is Zacharias Janssen famous for?
What is Leeuwenhoek famous for? What did he call the organisms he was viewing?
What and when did Edward Jenner develop?
What theory did Louis Pasteur develop?
Mr. Lister is best known for what practice?
What did Robert Koch develop?
What vaccine did Louis Pasteur develop?
What occurred in 1929 that was a very big step in the fight against bacteria? Who was the person
that discovered this?
10. How many times can an electron microscope magnify an object or biological specimen?
11. 1953 was a very important year because of the discovery of what molecule’s structure?
12. Who are the two individuals credited with revealing this molecule’s structure?
13. Jonas Salk is best known for his work on a vaccine for what disease?
14. What is the usual size range for a virus?
15. What is the normal size range of bacteria?
16. The naked human eye can see an object how small?
17. What are the two types of microscopes and types of specimens can one view with each?
18. An incubator is used for what?
19. Why do we stain organisms?
20. When we grow a microbial culture, what is the common food source and where is it derived from?
21. What type of microscope can we NOT use to view a virus?
22. What are the two (2) structural parts of a virus?
23. What are the three (3) things that a virus does not possess?
24. Are antibiotics effective against viruses?
25. Can a virus have both DNA and RNA?
26. What information does the nucleic acid in a virus contain?
27. What does mutation do for a virus?
28. Virus is Latin (a long dead language) for what?
29. A virus can only replicate where?
30. A virus uses a host’s what to stay alive?
31. What is the viral envelope made up of?
32. What are the two life cycles of a virus?
33. How does each life cycle work (what are the steps in each)?
34. What are the seven (7) ways that a virus can harm a host?
35. List and describe the two types of viral infections.
36. Describe how a vaccine works.
37. What are two methods to prevent viral infections and how do they work?
38. What is a viroid? Give an example.
39. What is a prion? Give an example.