Microbiology Quiz Bowl

This bacterial structure resists phagocytosis by preventing adherence to phagocytes.

Developed porcelain bacterial filters to study tobacco mosaic disease.

A process in which a unicellular organism engulfs another cell, which lives w/in the host cell and becomes and organelle

Which of the following would not move freely across the cytoplasmic membrane?

In what way do bacteria reproduce?

Demonstrated that the great Potato Blight of Ireland was caused by a water mold.

The 1st to disprove spontaneous generation by using experimental theory (maggots not prod. if meat is covered)

These nucleotides are found in DNA, EXCEPT:

A high temperature is used to separate target dsDNA into single strands

Who disproved spontaneous generation by boiling open and closed flasks of broth.

Visible wavelengths of light are used to illuminate a specimen by all of the following microscopes.

Mannitol fermenter:

All of these bacteria belong to the Lancefield group, EXCEPT:

Electron transport phosphorylation only happens in which type of bacteria and how much energy does it yield?

What is the treatment of choice for MRSA?

A DNA fragment produced by amplification of a specific DNA sequence

A molecular method that can be used to detect RNA viruses.

The first person to observe and describe microorganism accurately.

A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from non living matter.

This is the temperature range in the Primer Annealing step in PCR

The peptide interbridge crosslinking between peptidoglycan layers is found only in the cell wall of?

What type of bacteria grows on CNA and PEA

These are short sequences of nucleotides that are complementary to a unique region of the target.

How much energy is produced in glycolysis?

Free coagulase is being detected in what method?

What bacteria grows at 42 degrees Celsius?

Proved that heat-resistant bacteria could produce endospores.

Developed the 1st rabies vaccine

What is the Biosafety Level of B. anthracis?

This enzyme adds nucleotides to the primers

In the Bacterial Growth curve, this phase is also known as the exponential phase

demonstrated that dust carries microorganism

Showed that a disease of silkworms was caused by a fungus

Term used to describe bacterial cells of one species that vary in size and shape

How do yeast stain on a Gram stain?

Showed that smut and rust fungi caused cereal crop diseases

This antibiotic inhibits cell wall synthesis

Which of the following is added as an inhibitor for gram-negative bacteria?

The time it takes a bacterial population to double in size.

These are labeled single-stranded sequence of DNA or RNA that are complementary to the sequence to be detected