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Microbes Quiz


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Who discovered vaccine for smallpox?

A. Robert Koch

B. Edward Jenner

C. Louis Pasteur

D. Alexander Fleming


Microbes can be spread with air, animals, food, touch and in water.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE


Viruses are considered to be nonliving because they 

A. cannot multiply

B. use energy to grow 

C. are smaller than bacteria

D. do not show all the characteristics


Bacteria are

A. Prokaryotes

B. Non living things

C. Eukaryotes


Vaccines contain weakened or dead parts of antigens. 

A. TRUE

B. FALSE


Disease causing microbes are called

A. Pathogens

B. Protozoa

C. Parasites

D. Microbes


Which microbe is the image most likely to be?

A. Bacteria

B. Fungus

C. Virus

D. None of the above


The process of conversion of sugar into alcohol in the absence of oxygen is called

A. Pasteurization

B. Vaccination

C. Fermentation

D. Decomposition


Which disease is not caused by bacteria?

A. Strep throat

B. Pneumonia

C. Food poisoning

D. Rabies


Name the bacteria which promotes the formation of curd

A. Rhizobium

B. Cyanobacteria

C. Lactobacillus

D. Clostridium


The overuse of antibiotics has most likely resulted in the development of resistant strains of which organisms?

A. bacteria

B. fungi

C. protozoa

D. viruses


Microbes are called, microbes because?

A. You can hear them through a micro-scope.

B. They are very minute

C. They can only be seen using a micro-scope,

D. both 2 and 3


Carrier of malaria causing protozoan is

A. Female Anopheles mosquito

B. Cockroach

C. Housefly

D. Butterfly


The most common carrier of communicable diseases is

A. Ant

B. Housefly

C. Dragonfly

D. Spider


Which of the following is NOT a microbe?

A. Bacteria

B. Virus

C. Worm

D. Fungus


Cholera is caused by

A. Bacteria

B. Protozoa

C. Virus

D. Fungi


What are vaccines mainly made up of?

A. Dead Pathogens

B. Weak Pathogens

C. Both 1 and 2

D. Neither


Which microbe causes malaria?

A. virus

B. bacteria

C. fungi

D. parasite


Which microbe is the image most likely to be?

A. Bacteria

B. Fungus

C. Virus

D. None of the above




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