Microbiology Quiz: Answer All Questions In Two Minutes To Win A Lollypop!

MICROBIOLOGY QUIZ A N S W E R A L L Q U E S T I O N S I N T WO M I N U T E S T O W I N A L O L LY P O P !

WHO IS THIS GREAT DISCOVERER? •

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

• Charles Darwin • Louis Pasteur • Francesco Redi

• Correct – he is considered the “Father of Microbiology” • Wrong – Charles Darwin gave the theory of evolution • Wrong – Pasteur created vaccine for rabies and anthrax • Wrong – Redi performed experiments to disprove spontaneous generation

HOW OLD IS OUR EARTH? • 4.5 million years • 1000 years • 4.5 billion years • Cannot be determined

• Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again • Correct • Wrong; try again

WHAT IS A BACTERIOPHAGE? • Fungus • Bacterium • Virus • Protozoan • Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again • Correct – it is a virus that eats bacterium • Wrong – try again

HOW DOES PENICILLIN KILL BACTERIA? • Bacterial peptidoglycan • Bacterial nucleus • Bacterial cytoplasm • Bacterial ribosome

• Correct • Bacteria do not have proper nucleus; try again • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again

LICHENS ARE A SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATION BETWEEN: • Fungi and Bacteria • Bacteria and Viruses • Bacteria and Algae • Fungi and Algae

• Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again • Correct

WHICH OF THE STATEMENTS IS WRONG: CYAANOBACTERIA ARE • phototrophic • photosynthetic • prokaryotic • Non-cellular

• Wrong; they are indeed phototrophic • Wrong; they are indeed photosynthetic • Wrong; they are indeed prokaryotic • You are right – They are not cellular

THIS IMAGE SHOWS THE LIFECYCLE OF • Leishmania • Mycobacterium • Plasmodium • Trypanosoma • This causes leishmaniasis

• This causes tuberculosis • Correct; This causes malaria • This causes sleeping sickness

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS IMAGE? • First culturing of pathogenic microbes • First Tuberculosis patient’s sample

• Definition of MRSA • Discovery of penicillin

• Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again

• Correct

ESCHERICHIA COLI , GROWS OPTIMALLY AT: • 37° C • 0° C • 65° C

• 26° C

• Correct – The same as human body temperature • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again

WHAT IS MMR COMBINED VACCINE FOR? • Measles-Meningitis-Rabies • Malaria-Mumps-Rotavirus • Measles-Mumps-Rubella

• Malaria-Mycobacterium-Rubella • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again – There is no vaccine available for malaria now

• Correct. Good going. • Wrong; try again – BCG is used for tuberculosis

RIBOSOMES CONSIST OF: • DNA and proteins • RNA and proteins • Proteins and chromatin

• Nucleus

• Wrong; try again

• Correct • Wrong; try again • Wrong; try again

CARRIER OF ZIKA VIRUS • Anopheles mosquito • Aedes mosquito • By touch • Airborne

• Wrong, try again • Correct, Well done! • Wrong; try again

• Wrong; try again