MCQS in Microbiology - Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions in Microbiology - Part 2.
These Multiple Choice Questions may facilitate your reading and to have better scores.
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1. Plague is caused by –
a) rat
b) Treponema pallidium
c) salmonella
d) yersinia pestis

2. Inside the schizont the parasites are known as –
a) sporozoites
b) cryptozoites
c) merozoites
d) amoeba

3. Sleeping sickness is caused by –
a) plasmodium
b) Trypanosoma gambiens
c) leishmania tropica
d) entamoeba

4. Pork tapeworm is an example for –
a) zoo anthroponoses
b) anthronponoses
c) zoonoses
d) vertebrates

5. The infective larvae of trematodes is –
a) miracidium
b) cercaria
c) nauplius
d) tadpole

6. The first antibiotic was discovered by
a) louis Pasteur
b) Alexander Flemming
c) Edward Jenner
d) Robert Koch

7. The incubation time of Rabies in human is –
a) 3 to 8 weeks
b) 6 to 8 weeks
c) 5 months
d) 6 months

8. Typhoid fever is caused by –
a) salmonella
b) trypanosome gambiense
c) leishmania
d) treponema pallidium

9. The approximate size of viruses is ranges from ______.
a) 20nm to 300 nm
b) 20mm to 30 mm
c) 10 to 20 mm
d) 2nm to 3 nm

10. ______________ symmetry is seen in Pox viruses, T-bacteriophages.
a) Isohedral
b) Complex or uncertain
c) helical
d) bilateral

11. Virions contain only a single copy of the nucleic acid. Hence they are called _____.
a) diploid virus
b) retro virus
c) haploid viruses
d) rhabdo virus

12. ____ viruses are the largest of all viruses and are brick shaped.
a) rabies
b) TMV
c) Hepatitis B
d) Pox

13. Hepatitis B is responsible for the cause of _____
a) Tuberculosis
b) Small pox
c) Jaundice and hepatic carcinoma
d) hernia

14. Black water fever is caused by the ________.
a) Plasmodium falciforum
b) plasmodium ovale
c) entamoeba
d) virus

15. Vomiting, profuse diarrhoeal stool (rice water stool) are symptoms for _____.
a) Malaria
b) Cholera
c) Plague
d) Hepatitis

           

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MCQs in Microbiology - Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions in Mcrobiology - Part 1.
These Multiple Choice Questions may facilitate your reading and to have better scores.
At the end of this MCQs you may find the answers for these questions

1. Who first developed vaccines for rabies in man ?
a) Robert Koch
b) Joseph Lister
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Stanley

2. Which one of the following field lead way for modern microbiology ?
a) development of vaccines
b) technique of new viral strains
c) discovery of new viral strains
d) development of pure technique.

3. Which one of the following statement is incorrect regarding the structure of viruses ?
a) nucleic materials are covered by a protein coat
b) the capsid is made up of capsomere
c) some animal viruses an additional envelope
d) additional envelope is made up of glycoprotein

4. Viruses contain only a single copy of nucleic acid, hence they are called –
a) incomplete viruses
b) haploid viruses
c) ploidy viruses
d) variola viruses

5. Tumour inducing viruses are called –
a) pathogenic viruses
b) oncogenic viruses
c) paraviruses
d) variola viruses

6. Which one of the following is a protozoan disease ?
a) African sleeping sickness
b) measles
c) cholera
d) taeniasis

7. Sexual reproduction of Plasmodium takes place in --
a) liver cells of man
b) RBCs of man
c) plasma of man
d) body of mosquito.

8. The Pathogenic form of Entamoeba histolytica -
a) encysted spores
b) vegetative trophozoite
c) merozoite
d) schizont

9. Which one of the following is a trematode worm –
a) schistosomes
b) wuchereria
c) taenia
d) ascaris

10. The more promising chemotherapeutic agent for treating viral diseases is –
a) tetracycline
b) amphicilin
c) interferon
d) anthramycin

11. Germ theory of diseases was formulated by
a) Robert Koch
b) Pasteur
c) lister
d) Jenner

12. New procedures for staining, visualizing and growing bacteria were introduced by
a) Robert Gallo
b) Robert brown
c) Pasteur
d) Robert Koch

13. Robert Koch was awarded Noble prize for his work on –
a) diphtheria bacteria
b) tetanus bacteria
c) leprosy bacteria
d) tuberculosis

14. The technique of Pure culture of bacteria was first adopted by –
a) Pasteur
b) Robert koch
c) Joseph lister
d) Robert brown

15. Who discovered the system for antiseptic surgery ?
a) Joseph Lister
b) Robert Koch
c) Malthas
d) Pasteur

16. The viral genome contains all genetic information in –
a) only DNA
b) only RNA
c) either DNA or RNA
d) capsid

17. Which of the following is a diploid virus ?
a) HIV virus
b) adenovirus
c) measles virus
d) retrovirus

18. Rabies virus belongs to the family –
a) Rhabdovirus
b) Sarcoma virus
c) Adenovirus
d) Oncovirus

19. The largest of all viruses is –
a) SV 40
b) Adenovirus
c) retrovirus
d) pox virus

20. Bacterial conjugation was discovered by –
a) Avery Macbod
b) Mc.Carthy
c) Pasteur
d) Griffith

           

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