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Microbiology Quiz with AnswersDr. Abhijeet ManeAssistant Professor,Department of MicrobiologyBVDUMC, Pune

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

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QUESTIONS


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1. Name 4 Nobel prize winners in Microbiology


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2. Who discovered the microscope?


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3. What is the other name of Corynebacterium diphtheriae ?


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4. Who discovered bacterium Escherichia coli?


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75. What is Filippo Pacini credited with?


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6. Identify. Give 2 contributions to Microbiology


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97. Who discovered Shigella dysentriae, bacillus causing dysentery?


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8. Give 2 contributions of this Stalwart to field of Microbiology


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9. Who invented Polymerase Chain Reaction?


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10. This man discovered malarial parasites in GI tract of mosquito thus proving malaria is transmitted by mosquito. Identify him.


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1311. Who identified the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae as causative agent of Leprosy?


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12. What is contribution of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis to Medical field?


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13. Name 4 Intestinal Nematodes


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14. Which family does Ebola virus belong to?


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15. Scientific name of Guinea worm?How does it enter human being?


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16. Where does Amoebiasis metastasize?


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17. Name 4 protozoal parasites.


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18. Name the different species of Plasmodium?


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19. Name 3 stages of asexual cycle of Plasmodium spp in man?


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20. Name causative agent and vector for Kala Azar?


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ANSWERS


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1. Name 4 Nobel prize winners in Microbiology Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - for discovering

acquired immunological tolerance Barry Marshal (1951-) & Robin Warren

(1937-)shared Nobel prize in Medicine (2005) for discovery of Helicobacter Pylori

Kary Mullis - Nobel prize in Chemistry (1993) for invention of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)


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2. Who discovered the microscope? Antony van Leeuwenhoek draper in Delft, Holland


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3. What is the other name of Corynebacterium diphtheriae ? Klebs Loefflers bacillus


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4. Who discovered bacterium Escherichia coli?

Theodor Escherich


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285. What is Filippo Pacini credited with?

First observed Vibrio cholerae


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6. Identify. Give 2 contributions to Microbiology

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Australian virologist & immunologist

Identified causative agent of Q fever

Gave Burnet’s clonal selection theory

Shared Nobel prize with Sir Peter Medawar (1960) for discovering acquired immunological tolerance


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307. Who discovered Shigella dysentriae, bacillus causing dysentery?

Kiyoshi Shiga


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8. Give 2 contributions of this Stalwart to field of Microbiology

Established that fermentation was a result of bacterial activity

Proved that all forms of life, even microbes, arose only from their like & not de novo

introduced techniques of sterilization, etc.


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9. Who invented Polymerase Chain Reaction? Kary Mullis


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10. This man discovered malarial parasites in GI tract of mosquito thus proving malaria is transmitted by mosquito. Identify him.

Sir Ronald Ross


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11. Who identified the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae as causative agent of Leprosy?

Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser


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12. What is contribution of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis to Medical field? Proposed the

practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in obstetrical clinics in 1847 to reduce incidence of puerperal fever


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13. Name 4 Intestinal Nematodes Trichuris trichiura Enterobius vermicularis Ancylostoma duodenale Necator americanus Strongyloides stercoralis Ascaris lumbricoides


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14. Which family does Ebola virus belong to? Filoviridae


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15. Scientific name of Guinea worm?How does it enter human being? Dracunculus medinensis Oral route – contaminated drinking

water


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16. Where does Amoebiasis metastasize? Lung abscess Cerebral abscess Splenic abscess Granuloma cutis Amoebic pericarditis


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17. Name 4 protozoal parasites. Entamoeba histolytica Naegleria fowleri Giardia lamblia Trichomonas vaginalis Leishmania donovani Trypanosoma spp


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18. Name the different species of Plasmodium? P. vivax P. falciparum P. malariae P. ovale P. knowlesi


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19. Name 3 stages of asexual cycle of Plasmodium spp in man? Pre – erythrocytic schizogony Erythrocytic schizogony Gametogony


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20. Name causative agent and vector for Kala Azar? Leishmania donovani Female Sand fly – Phlebotomus

argentipes


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