PLPA 2003 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Prokaryotes - Answers - no nucleus, small/simple structure, single cell, binary fission
Eukaryotes - Answers - nucleus, complex/large, mitosis & meiosis, multi-cell
Malaria - Answers - affects liver cells, bursts red blood cells, no animal reservoirs,
vectored by mosquitoes, recurrent fever, treatment: Cinchona Tree (quinine), livestock
distracts mosquitoes
Plasmodium falciparum - Answers - Other types vivax, ovale and malariae
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek - Answers - Father of microbiology, discovered red blood
cells, wrote to Royal Society of London, 17th century, used microscope to discover
microbes, draper from the Netherlands
Zaccharias Jensen - Answers - made compound microscope, objective and ocular lens,
only 9x magnification
Joe Jackson Lister - Answers - combined complimentary lenses to reduce aberration
effects 1826
Hippocrates - Answers - Father of medicine, diseases occur naturally, disease resulted
from deficiency or excess of the 4 humors, blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
Classical Medical treatments - Answers - phlebotomy (cutting veins), venesection (blood
letting), leech application, cupping
Miasmatic Theory of Disease - Answers - "bad air", poisonous vapors, sanitary reforms
made, middle ages, mid 1800s
Why can't microbes cause disease - Answers - no one knew about them, Theory of
Spontaneous Generation-microbes were result not cause
Germ Theory - Answers - late 1800s, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, microbes can cause
disease
Louis Pasteur - Answers - French chemist, Swan necked flask experiments, discovered
aspects of vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization
Robert Koch - Answers - German physician, discovered cause of Anthrax, worked with
TB and cholera, isolate microbe identify it, innoculate healthy host, observe same
symptoms
ANSWERS
Prokaryotes - Answers - no nucleus, small/simple structure, single cell, binary fission
Eukaryotes - Answers - nucleus, complex/large, mitosis & meiosis, multi-cell
Malaria - Answers - affects liver cells, bursts red blood cells, no animal reservoirs,
vectored by mosquitoes, recurrent fever, treatment: Cinchona Tree (quinine), livestock
distracts mosquitoes
Plasmodium falciparum - Answers - Other types vivax, ovale and malariae
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek - Answers - Father of microbiology, discovered red blood
cells, wrote to Royal Society of London, 17th century, used microscope to discover
microbes, draper from the Netherlands
Zaccharias Jensen - Answers - made compound microscope, objective and ocular lens,
only 9x magnification
Joe Jackson Lister - Answers - combined complimentary lenses to reduce aberration
effects 1826
Hippocrates - Answers - Father of medicine, diseases occur naturally, disease resulted
from deficiency or excess of the 4 humors, blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
Classical Medical treatments - Answers - phlebotomy (cutting veins), venesection (blood
letting), leech application, cupping
Miasmatic Theory of Disease - Answers - "bad air", poisonous vapors, sanitary reforms
made, middle ages, mid 1800s
Why can't microbes cause disease - Answers - no one knew about them, Theory of
Spontaneous Generation-microbes were result not cause
Germ Theory - Answers - late 1800s, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, microbes can cause
disease
Louis Pasteur - Answers - French chemist, Swan necked flask experiments, discovered
aspects of vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization
Robert Koch - Answers - German physician, discovered cause of Anthrax, worked with
TB and cholera, isolate microbe identify it, innoculate healthy host, observe same
symptoms
