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Microbiology Test 3

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A mature virus particle?   Viron  
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Viruses contain?   DNA or RNA  
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The protein coat surrounding the nucleic acid is called?   Capsid  
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The capsid is composed of a number of protein units called?   Capsomeres  
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Membrane derived from a host cell?   Envelope  
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Some viruses have _______ on the viral surface.   Spikes  
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Spikes are found only on _____ viruses.   Enveloped viruses  
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Spikes aid in?   Absorption  
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A naked piece of nucleic acid, like RNA, that can be infectious is?   Viroid  
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Viruses are classified by what 4 categories?   Size, nucleic acid, morphology, and number of capsomeres.  
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Viruses are grown in?   Lab animals, embryonated eggs, cell cultures, or bacterial cultures.  
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The ability of a virus to infect an organism is regulated by what 4 things?   Host species, type of cells, attachment sites, and cell factors.  
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A virus attaches to a cell membrane?   Absorption  
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The virus is engulfed into the cell?   Penetration  
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Once inside the cell, the virus looses its capsid?   Uncoating  
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The viral DNA/RNA replicates by using the host cell's DNA?   Biosynthesis  
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A new viral particle?   Progeny  
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New viruses appear in the nucleus or cytoplasm?   Maturation  
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New viruses are also called?   Inclusion bodies or elementary particles.  
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When the new viruses burst out of the host cell, they create what with pieces of the nuclear membrane?   Envelopes  
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A tadpole virus that infects bacteria?   Bacteriophage or just phage.  
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A disease process that occurs gradually over a long period of time?   Slow virus infection  
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A few slow virus infections are?   Rubella, scrapie, CJV, Kuru.  
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What kind of virus remains in the host dormant after a long period but can still produce disease?   Latent virus  
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An example of a latent virus is?   Herpes simplex  
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What virus causes warts?   Papovavirus  
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What virus causes the common cold?   Rhinovirus  
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What virus causes mononucleosis?   EBV or Epstein Batt virus  
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The AEDES mosquito spreads which virus?   Arbovirus or togavirus, which causes Yellow fever, Dengue fever, Breakbone fever.  
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What virus causes rabies?   Rhabdovirus  
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Inclusion bodies produced in the brain of the cerebellum are called?   Negri bodies  
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Hep. A is found in?   Contaminated food, it enters via the GI tract.  
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Hep. B is found in?   Contaminated needles, sexual contact, and body fluids.  
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A blue-green or yellow-green pigment?   Pyocyanin  
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Which gram negative rod bacteria has a grape like odor?   Pseudomonas aeruginosa  
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes?   Infection of the otitis (outer ear), UTIs, respiratory, and burns.  
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What bacteria is found in the intestines of humans, and is anaerobic gram negative rods?   Pseudomonas acne  
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List all 8 enterics or coli-forms:   Salmonella, shigella, E. coli, enterobacter, klebsiella, serratia, proteus, yersinia. (SSSEEKPY)  
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A bacterial infection spread from deer?   Lyme disease- Borrelia burgdorferi  
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What bacteria is the greatest cause of blindness?   C. trachomatis  
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What bacteria causes Parrot fever?   C. psittaci  
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What bacteria can you get from chickens, ducks, pigeons, and turkeys?   Ornithosis  
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What bacteria causes walking pneumonia or atypical pneumonia?   M. pneumoniae, PPLO (Pleural Pneumonia Like Organisms)  
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What bactera causes TB?   Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it's also an acid fast rod.  
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What two bacteria are in the Neisseria family?   N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis  
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The two gram positive cocci are?   Staph and Strept  
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The gram negative cocci is?   Neisseria  
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The two anaerobic wound infections are?   Bacteroids and Clostridium perfringenes  
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The study of fungi is called?   Mycology  
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Unicellular fungi are?   Yeasts  
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Multicellular fungi are?   Molds  
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Yeast reproduce by?   Budding  
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Molds produce thread-like filaments called?   Hyphae  
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Hyphae with cross walls are called?   Septate hyphae  
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Hyphae without cross walls are called?   Aseptate or nonseptate hyphae  
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A mass of hyphae is called?   Mycelium  
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Mycelium that obtain nutrients are called?   Vegetative mycelium (the roots)  
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Mycelium that produce spores are called?   Reproductive or aerial mycelium.  
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Spores do what for molds?   They are a means of reproduction.  
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What are the 5 asexual spores?   Arthrospores, blastospores, chlamydiospores, conidiospores, and sporangiospores.  
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What asexual spore is fragmented or rectangular?   Arthrospores  
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What asexual spore buds?   Blastospores  
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What asexual spore has thick walls, which are formed by segmentation of hyphae?   Chlamydiospore  
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Chlamydiospores have 3 kinds:   Terminal (at the end of the hyphae), intercalary (within the hyphae), and sessile (which are on the sides).  
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What asexual spore is produced in a chain?   Conidiospores  
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What are the various Conidiospore structures?   Microcondia (little hairs), and Macroconidia (in a pod). Then we have Conidiophore (the trunk), vesicles (the body), phialide (fingers or branches), and conidia (the attached spores, no more then 6).  
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Penicillin is shaped like a:   Goblet  
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Aspergillus is shaped like a:   Medusa with snakes!  
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What asexual spore forms at the end of a hyphae?   Sporangiospores  
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What are the 3 kinds of sexual spores?   Ascospores, basidiospores, and zygospores.  
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What sexual spore passes the nucleus of a male thru a bridge into a female cell and fuse?   Ascospores  
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The female sexual spore cell becomes an?   Ascus (sac like structure which contains 2-8 ascospores)  
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What sexual spore forms on a pedestal?   Basidiospores, the pedestal is called a Basidium.  
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What sexual spore is produced when two hyphae form an arm and extend to meet each other?   Zygospore or oospore.  
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A __________ is formed when two hyphae form a thick wall.   Zygosporangium  
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Some fungi have 2 forms of growth:   Dimorphic  
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Dimorphic fungi grow at ____ as a yeast, and at ____ as a mold.   37 degrees, and 25 degrees.  
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What are the two phylums of fungi?   Perfect fungi- non-pathogens, and Imperfect fungi- pathogenic in humans.  
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Imperfect fungi reproduce by?   Asexual reproduction  
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Ringworm is caused by:   Tinea  
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Ringworm of the nails:   Tinea unguium  
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Ringworm of the beard and neck:   Tinea barbae  
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Ringworm of the scalp:   Tinea capitis  
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Ringworm of the scalp has two kinds:   Ectothrix (outside the hair shaft) and Endothrix (inside the hair shaft)  
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Ringworm of the body:   Tinea corporis  
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Ringworm of the groin and anal region:   Tinea cruris  
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Ringworm of the foot:   Tinea pedis (Athlete's foot)  
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Ringworm that discolors areas of the skin:   Tinea vesicolor  
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A dimorphic fungi found in timber, rose thorns, and metal:   Sporothrix, causes "Rose fever"  
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A normal flora of the bowel, skin, vagina:   Candida albicans- diamorphic yeast  
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Candida albicans can cause the follow issues:   Oral thrush and vulvovaginities. It also affects the nails, lungs, urinary, intestinal, and brain and blood.  
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Candia albicans is identified by:   Grown at room temp., grows as a smooth white colony with a wine odor.  
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A __________ is a hyphae that proceeds from a bud.   Germ tubes  
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Aspergillus causes:   A fungus ball in the lungs!  
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What are the 4 classifications of medical mycosis-fungal diseases?   Superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous, and systemic.  
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What kind of fungal disease infects the outer layer of skin, nails, hair?   Superficial  
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What kind of fungal disease destroys the keratin of the skin, hair, nails?   Cutaneous  
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What kind of fungal disease infects the skin, muscles, and connective tissues?   Subcutaneous  
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What kind of fungal disease infects deep tissues and organs?   Systemic  
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A fungal disease that spreads throughout the body is said to:   Disseminate  
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What are the two categories of parasites?   Protozoans and helminths.  
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Protozoans reproduce:   Sexually and asexually.  
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What are the two kinds of Helminths?   Flatworms and Roundworms.  
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Which host harbors the adult stage helminth?   Definitive host  
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Which host harbors the larva stage helminth?   Intermediate host  
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Flatworms have both male and female parts:   They are hermaphroditic.  
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What are the 4 important kinds of flukes (flatworms)?   Intestinal, lung, liver, and blood.  
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The life cycle of a fluke includes:   Eggs --> miracidium (which hatch, enter a snail) --> produces Rediae --> which develop into Cercaria (which bore out of the snail) --> they penetrate crayfish and encyst as a Metacercaria --> Humans or a larger fish eat this and it develops into a fluke.  
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The head of a tapeworm is called?   Scolex  
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The sections or segments on a tapeworm are called?   Proglottids  
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Proglottids in the neck region are called?   Immature proglottids  
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Proglottids that contain reproductive organs are called?   Mature proglottids  
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The large proglottids at the end of the tapeworm that contain the eggs are called?   Gravid proglottids  
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Arthropods that transmit diseases by sucking human blood are:   Mites, ticks, lice, fleas, mosquitoes, assassin/kissing bugs.  
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