Jeopardy Pathogenesis
A. Toxic proteins secreted by bacterial cells. Botulism
toxin and Cholera toxin are an example what kind of toxin.
Or
A. A soluble protein excreted by a microorganism that can
cause damage to the host by destroying cells or disrupting
normal cellular metabolism.
Q. What is exotoxin?
A. Toxic component of the outer membranes of some gram
negative bacteria.
Examples are Salmonella typhi and other species of
Salmonella causing food poisoning.
Q. What is endotoxin?
A. Four criteria that are used to connect a pathogen with a
specific disease.
Q. What are Koch’s postulates
A. Organisms usually associated with individuals, which
become pathogens when the host’s immune system fails.
Q. What are opportunists?
A. A disease which is only caused by a certain bacteria
when it is carrying a bacteriophage.
Q. What is Diptheria?
A. The pathogen that causes tuberculosis
Q. Mycobacterium tuberculosi
A. The organism that causes anthrax.
Summer 2008 Workshop in Biology and Multimedia for High School
Teachers
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A. What is Bacillus anthracis?
Summer 2008 Workshop in Biology and Multimedia for High School
Teachers
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