MICROBIOLOGY CHAMBERLAIN
COLLEGE OF NURSING - WEEK 1.
EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Edward Jenner (1796) - ANS inoculated a person with cowpox virus, who was then protected
from smallpox
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - ANS 1670's ; first to observe living cells
Invented the Microscope
Microbes Classifications - ANS Bacteria
Archaea
Fungi
Protozoa
Algae
Small Multi-cellular Animals
Bacteria - ANS + Single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus
+ Prokaryotic
+ Cells wall composed of
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, Polysaccharide (Peptidoglycan)
+ Reproduces ASEXUALLY
+ Majority does not cause harm
+ Degrades dead plants and animals back into
the air, soil, and water to be used
Archaea - ANS + Cell walls lack peptidoglycan
+ Cell walls composed of other chemical
+ Reproduces ASEXUALLY
+ Smaller than eukaryotes cells
+ Found in extreme environments
+ Not know to cause human disease
Fungi - ANS + Eukaryotic
+ Cells contain a nucleus
+ Feeds from other organisms
+ Reproduces SEXUAL and ASEXUAL
+ Yeast and Mold
Penicillium chrysogenum - ANS + Mold that produces penicillin
+ Cottony growths on cheese, bread, and jams
+ Fungi group
Saccharomyces cerevisiae - ANS + Yeast
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+ Causes bread to rise
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, + Produces alcohol from sugar
Yeast - ANS + Unicellular
+ Oval and Round
+ Reproduces ASEXUAL by budding
+ Some produce SEXUAL spores
budding - ANS asexual reproduction - daughter cell grows off mother cell
Candida albicans - ANS yeast infection in most women
Protozoa - ANS + Single-celled eukaryotes
+ Reproduce ASEXUAL and SEXUAL
+ Similar to animals in nutritional need and
cellular structure
+ Most are capable of locomotion
+ Examples - pseudopods, cilia, flagella
+ Plasmodium - (malaria-causing) non-motile in
mature forms
+ Live freely in water
+ Some live in an animal host, where they cause
disease
Algae - ANS + Eukaryote
+ Uni-cellular or Multi-cellular
+ Photosynthetic
+ Make own food from Carbon Dioxide and Water
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using energy from the sun
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COLLEGE OF NURSING - WEEK 1.
EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Edward Jenner (1796) - ANS inoculated a person with cowpox virus, who was then protected
from smallpox
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - ANS 1670's ; first to observe living cells
Invented the Microscope
Microbes Classifications - ANS Bacteria
Archaea
Fungi
Protozoa
Algae
Small Multi-cellular Animals
Bacteria - ANS + Single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus
+ Prokaryotic
+ Cells wall composed of
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, Polysaccharide (Peptidoglycan)
+ Reproduces ASEXUALLY
+ Majority does not cause harm
+ Degrades dead plants and animals back into
the air, soil, and water to be used
Archaea - ANS + Cell walls lack peptidoglycan
+ Cell walls composed of other chemical
+ Reproduces ASEXUALLY
+ Smaller than eukaryotes cells
+ Found in extreme environments
+ Not know to cause human disease
Fungi - ANS + Eukaryotic
+ Cells contain a nucleus
+ Feeds from other organisms
+ Reproduces SEXUAL and ASEXUAL
+ Yeast and Mold
Penicillium chrysogenum - ANS + Mold that produces penicillin
+ Cottony growths on cheese, bread, and jams
+ Fungi group
Saccharomyces cerevisiae - ANS + Yeast
2
+ Causes bread to rise
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, + Produces alcohol from sugar
Yeast - ANS + Unicellular
+ Oval and Round
+ Reproduces ASEXUAL by budding
+ Some produce SEXUAL spores
budding - ANS asexual reproduction - daughter cell grows off mother cell
Candida albicans - ANS yeast infection in most women
Protozoa - ANS + Single-celled eukaryotes
+ Reproduce ASEXUAL and SEXUAL
+ Similar to animals in nutritional need and
cellular structure
+ Most are capable of locomotion
+ Examples - pseudopods, cilia, flagella
+ Plasmodium - (malaria-causing) non-motile in
mature forms
+ Live freely in water
+ Some live in an animal host, where they cause
disease
Algae - ANS + Eukaryote
+ Uni-cellular or Multi-cellular
+ Photosynthetic
+ Make own food from Carbon Dioxide and Water
3
using energy from the sun
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