Medical Microbiology Unit 5 Exam Questions and Answers.

Medical Microbiology Unit 5 Exam Questions and
Answers
1. 1. Select the best answer.
How does a bacteriophage infect a cell? correct answers: It injects its genetic content
into the cell
2. 2. Select the best answer.
What can viruses infect? correct answers: all of
these- bacteria bacteria and animals
animals
plants
3. 3. Select the best answer.
Viruses are commonly measured in . correct answers: nanometers
4. 4. Select the best answer.
Bacteriophages have a(n) shape. correct answers: complex
5. 5. Select the best answer.
How are viruses often named? correct answers: by the disease they cause
6. 6. Select the best answer.
A(n) is an infectious particle that will reproduce its genetic
content in a host cell. correct answers: virus
7. 7. Select the best answer.
A virus can contain what type of genetic material? correct answers: only
DNA or only RNA
8. 8. Select the best answer.
Bacteria are infected by what types of viruses? correct answers:
bacteriophages
9. 9. Select the best answer.
A(n) is an encasing of lipids and proteins that surrounds a capsid.
correct answers: envelope
10. 10. Select the best answer.
A(n) is the protein coat within a virus where genetic material is
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