Micro Exam 3 Review

inactivated toxin used in a vaccine

where do the majority of fungi get their nutrition?

Having alternate forms (depending on growth conditions)

The 5 groups in the domain bacteria are; Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Chlamydias, Spirochetes, and Gram + bacteria

what are plankton?

which infection; microbes enter the body and remain confined to a specific tissue

What kind of test is this?

Men and women with Neisseria gonorrhoeae can be asymptomatic.

In what ways are arthropods vectors?

What are some identification methods?

which infection; infection spreads to several sites & tissue fluids usually in the bloodstream / lymph

Intermediate host harbors the sexually mature adult (can occur in a vector, human, or other animal)

do microbes use actin or myosin to move inside the host cell

Antigenic variation is the ability to change their antigens

epidemic across continents

protozoans have cell walls

Which is a pathogenic ciliate and what does it cause?

the manner in which a disease develops

Mortality rate is the number of people afflicted with a certain disease

Actinomycetes, Streptomycetes, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Bacillus anthracis, MRSA is gram -

disease-causing microbe

which one is not a sexual spore?

A communicable disease is infectious

when occasional cases are reported at irregular intervals

The causative agent of infectious disease

What morphologies can exist?

Infection of the eye that causes blindness and what group does it originate from?

What is binomial nomenclature?

What are the two prokaryotic domains?

What are the phylums of helminthes

What are the three kinds of hyphae?

ways that microbes adhere to surfaces

What species does cyanobacteria include?

how do pathogens damage host cells

symptom is a change in a body that can be measured or observed

which is a pathogenic apicomplexan and what does it cause?

types of living human reservoirs include

protozoan in a dormant resting stage (when conditions are unfavorable)

a population of cells with similar characteristics; reproduce only asexually

taxa is the categories in which organisms are placed based on similarities

this kindom is multicellular, cellulose cell walls, usually photoautotrophic

this kindom is multicellular, no cell walls, chemoheterotrophic

branching filaments (make up fungal thallus)

Experimental steps to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease

the cause of a disease

What methods can genetics be used to identify organisms?

What are the groups of protozoan identification?

What is placing a known organism in a group of related species?

Prevalence measures the number of new cases over a certain time period

How do protozoa reproduce?

what are the portals of entry

which infection; when infectious agent breaks loose from a local infection and is carried to other specific tissues

A test that determines which phages a bacterium is susceptible to (can provide another basis for identifying)

a virulence factor is a characteristic or structure that contributes to the ability of a microbe to cause disease

What are the two fungal forms?

What does Rhizobium do for legume root nodules?

What are the types of transmissions

What species does proteobacteria include?

You can be contagious in all 5 stages.

Which one is the stages of infection in the correct order?

What are the three domains of life?

the body/structure of a fungus (yeast- or mold-like)

What can happen if a gonorrheal infection is left untreated?

Protozoan in motile feeding stage

this kindom is unicellular or multicellular, chitin cell walls, chemoheterotrophic, develop sporesor hyphal fragments

the scientific study of disease

how is virulence is expressed

Yeasts are multicellular

What species do spirochetes include? What illnesses do they cause?

transients are microbes that occupy the body for long periods of time

What is identifying an unknown organism by matching its characteristics with those of other known species.

is the liquid remaining after blood plasma is clotted; contains antibodies

An endogenous infection is opportunistic

exoenzymes that aid in virulence are...

fungi can reproduce sexually

this kindom is a catchall kingdom for eukaryotic organisms that don’t fit other kingdoms (includes algae & protozoans)

substance that contributes to pathogenicity

Reservoir is an individual or object from which an infection is actually acquired

Leukocytosis is the decrease in white blood cells

What kingdom are helminths part of?

what are 3 examples of antiphagocytic factors

Which is NOT a concern of pathology?

Which one is not a pathogenic flagellate?

infection is an abnormal state where part/all of the body is not functioning normally

algae contain chloroplasts.

a solution of specific antibodies

How can yeast cells reproduce?

You treat gonorrhea with antibiotics

Which is an ineffective ameoba and what does it cause?

Which one has the taxonomix hierarchy from largest group to smallest group?

mass of hyphae

generally defined as a group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves

disease that exhibits a relatively steady frequency over a long period of time in a particular geographic locale

What do dinoflagellates do?

invasins are surface proteins that microbes produce to penetrate host cell membrane

when prevalence of a disease is increasing beyond what is expected

what is the largest taxonomic group of bacteria

presence of toxin in host’s blood

virulence factors include

The fungal asexual reproduction methods are meiosis and fragmentation?