Microbes: The good, the bad, and the useful

Question 1

Which type of microbes are used to make cheese and yogurt?

Accepted Answer

bacteria

Question 2

What sort of microbes are shown in this picture?

Accepted Answer

bacteria

Question 3

What is the potential risk of taking too many antibiotics?

Accepted Answer

bacteria develop resistance against certain antibiotics

Question 4

Which gas produced by yeast makes bread rise?

Accepted Answer

carbon dioxide

Question 5

Which type of food preservation uses acid to kill microbes?

Accepted Answer

pickling

Question 6

What is a microbe?

Accepted Answer

a microorganism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye

Question 7

What is a pathogen?

Accepted Answer

any microbe that causes disease

Question 8

Where do most of the bacteria live in your body?

Accepted Answer

your large intestine

Question 9

In which organism did Alexander Fleming discover the first antibiotic, Penicillin?

Accepted Answer

fungi

Question 10

What do you call all the microbial cells that live in and on your body?

Accepted Answer

the human microbiome

Question 11

Microbes can be beneficial, harmful, or neutral.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Why do fungi produce antibiotics?

Accepted Answer

to prevent the growth of bacteria since they compete for nutrients

Question 13

Which microbes make bread rise?

Accepted Answer

yeast

Question 14

Humans consist of more microbial cells than body cells.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

When all microbes are killed, an object has been...

Accepted Answer

sterilized

Question 16

Every human has a unique microbiome.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

What type of microbe is shown here?

Accepted Answer

virus

Question 18

Why is yogurt considered a probiotic?

Accepted Answer

it contains live, healthy bacteria

Question 19

How do the bacteria living in your gut get their nutrients?

Accepted Answer

from the food you eat

Question 20

What sort of microorganism causes the common cold?

Accepted Answer

viruses

Question 21

Antibiotics are effective against a viral infection.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

How can microbes be beneficial to humans?

Accepted Answer

balanced gut bacteria influence mental health positively, they produce vitamins and boost the immune system, they detoxify harmful chemicals and outcompete harmful microbes

Microbes: The good, the bad, and the useful

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Microbes: The good, the bad, and the useful

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