UMKC, Microbiology, Exam 1 Guide
questions n answers 2025/2026
Microbiology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A specialized area of biology that deals with living things
ordinarily too small to be seen without magnification.
Microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Microbes or living things ordinarily too small to be
seen without magnification
Six Major groups of microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa,
and helminths. All above can be infected by viruses.
Bacteria Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔E. coli and streptococcus thermophilus
Colony - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A mound of cells that grew from a single bacterial cell
Bacterial Colony Description - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Color, shape, margin, texture, and size
Mold - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A type of fungi. Rhizopus contains sporangia or spore producing
structure that is asexual
Fungi Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Rhizopus and penicillium
Virus Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Herpes, green slide that looked like an over-easy egg
,Algae Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Diatoms; look like skeletons and used for pool filters
and cat liter
Bacteria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔All nonarchaea prokaryotes with peptidoglycan in their cell
walls and circular chromosome(s).
Fungi - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Macroscopic and microscopic heterotrophic (not photosynthetic)
eukaryotic organisms that can be uni-or multicellular. Fungi do not ingest their food, rather they
secrete exoenzymes that break down complex molecules, and then they absorb the smaller
compounds.
Algae - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Photosynthetic, plantlike eukaryotes that generally lack the
complex structure of plants; uni- or multicellular and inhabit diverse habitats.
Protozoa - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A group of single-celled, eukaryotic organisms. (not belong to
animals)
Helminths - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Parasitic invertebrate animals such as tapeworms. Animals
are multicellular eukaryotes with tissues that develop from embryonic layers (no cell wall),
heterotrophs that ingest their food. They are not microorganisms but are included in the study
of infectious disease. They are transmitted similarly to bacterial diseases. The human body
responds to them in the same way as it responds to bacterial diseases.
Protozoa Example - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Trypanosoma which causes sleeping sickness
Viruses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Are noncellular, parasitic, protein-coated genetic elements,
dependent on their infected host. Although viruses are not strictly speaking microorganisms-
namely, cellular beings- their evolutionary history and impact are intimately connected with the
evolution of microbes and their study is thus integrated in the science of microbiology.
,Microbes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Reproduce rapidly, large populations can be grown in the
laboratory. Can't be seen directly, must be analyzed through indirect methods in addition to
using microscopes.
Microbiologists study - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Cell structure and function, Growth and
physiology, Genetics, Taxonomy and evolutionary history, Interactions with living and nonliving
environment, Microbial ecology, Bioinformatics, Physical and chemical control, chemotherapy,
infection and diseases, immunology, environmental microbiology, applied and industrial
microbiology.
Medical Microbiology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Microbes that cause disease. Exam factors and
mechanisms to inhibit.
Public Health and Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Monitor and control spread of
diseases. USPHS and CDC.
Immunology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Protective substances and cells produced in response to
infection.
Industrial - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Safeguards food and water and includes technology, alcohol,
drugs, vitamins, etc..
Agricultural - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Microbes and domesticated plants and animals. Plant
diseases and fertility and animal diseases.
Environmental - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Effect of microbes on earth's habitats.
Pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Any agent that causes disease. Two thousand microbes can
cause disease.
, Diseases Affected by Microbes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Definitely: Influenza, pneumonia,
Diarrheal diseases, HIV, tuberslosis. Possibly: Heart disease, cancer, diabetes.
Trachoma - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Bacterial infection that causes blindness. Is endemic to cause
15% of worlds blindness, second after cataracts.
Endemic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A common disease
Malaria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Kills between 700,000; 1.2 million people every year.
Transmitted by mosquitoes. Prevention of infection is through the use of bed nets, which
although inexpensive, are too expensive for poor families.
Bacteria That Cause Human Disease - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Only a small fraction of bacteria
cause disease in humans. Bacterial infection can be prevented by killing bacteria with heat, as in
sterilization and pasteurization. Bacterial infection can be treated with antibiotics. However,
overuse of antibiotics has enabled the development of strains of bacteria that are resistant to
antibiotics, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Fungal infectious diseases of human - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Tinea unguium, a fungal infection
of the nail bed. athletes foot, most common human mycosis. Dermatophytic fungus
Epidermophyton floccosum, causative agent of athlete's foot, and tinea unguium. Aspergillosis,
blastomycosis, Candidiasis, Coccidioidomycosis, Cryptococcosis, Histoplasmosis, Tinea pedis,
Yeast Diaper Rash.
Aspergillosis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A "fungus ball" in an old tuberculosis cavity in the left
upper lung field. The "air-crescent sign" is the crescent shaped air space around fungus ball,
results from separation of a fragment of necrotic lung from adjacent viable parenchyma.
Double Stranded DNA Viruses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Adenovirus, papovavirus, herpesvirus,
poxvirus
questions n answers 2025/2026
Microbiology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A specialized area of biology that deals with living things
ordinarily too small to be seen without magnification.
Microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Microbes or living things ordinarily too small to be
seen without magnification
Six Major groups of microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa,
and helminths. All above can be infected by viruses.
Bacteria Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔E. coli and streptococcus thermophilus
Colony - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A mound of cells that grew from a single bacterial cell
Bacterial Colony Description - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Color, shape, margin, texture, and size
Mold - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A type of fungi. Rhizopus contains sporangia or spore producing
structure that is asexual
Fungi Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Rhizopus and penicillium
Virus Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Herpes, green slide that looked like an over-easy egg
,Algae Examples - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Diatoms; look like skeletons and used for pool filters
and cat liter
Bacteria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔All nonarchaea prokaryotes with peptidoglycan in their cell
walls and circular chromosome(s).
Fungi - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Macroscopic and microscopic heterotrophic (not photosynthetic)
eukaryotic organisms that can be uni-or multicellular. Fungi do not ingest their food, rather they
secrete exoenzymes that break down complex molecules, and then they absorb the smaller
compounds.
Algae - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Photosynthetic, plantlike eukaryotes that generally lack the
complex structure of plants; uni- or multicellular and inhabit diverse habitats.
Protozoa - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A group of single-celled, eukaryotic organisms. (not belong to
animals)
Helminths - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Parasitic invertebrate animals such as tapeworms. Animals
are multicellular eukaryotes with tissues that develop from embryonic layers (no cell wall),
heterotrophs that ingest their food. They are not microorganisms but are included in the study
of infectious disease. They are transmitted similarly to bacterial diseases. The human body
responds to them in the same way as it responds to bacterial diseases.
Protozoa Example - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Trypanosoma which causes sleeping sickness
Viruses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Are noncellular, parasitic, protein-coated genetic elements,
dependent on their infected host. Although viruses are not strictly speaking microorganisms-
namely, cellular beings- their evolutionary history and impact are intimately connected with the
evolution of microbes and their study is thus integrated in the science of microbiology.
,Microbes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Reproduce rapidly, large populations can be grown in the
laboratory. Can't be seen directly, must be analyzed through indirect methods in addition to
using microscopes.
Microbiologists study - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Cell structure and function, Growth and
physiology, Genetics, Taxonomy and evolutionary history, Interactions with living and nonliving
environment, Microbial ecology, Bioinformatics, Physical and chemical control, chemotherapy,
infection and diseases, immunology, environmental microbiology, applied and industrial
microbiology.
Medical Microbiology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Microbes that cause disease. Exam factors and
mechanisms to inhibit.
Public Health and Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Monitor and control spread of
diseases. USPHS and CDC.
Immunology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Protective substances and cells produced in response to
infection.
Industrial - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Safeguards food and water and includes technology, alcohol,
drugs, vitamins, etc..
Agricultural - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Microbes and domesticated plants and animals. Plant
diseases and fertility and animal diseases.
Environmental - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Effect of microbes on earth's habitats.
Pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Any agent that causes disease. Two thousand microbes can
cause disease.
, Diseases Affected by Microbes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Definitely: Influenza, pneumonia,
Diarrheal diseases, HIV, tuberslosis. Possibly: Heart disease, cancer, diabetes.
Trachoma - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Bacterial infection that causes blindness. Is endemic to cause
15% of worlds blindness, second after cataracts.
Endemic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A common disease
Malaria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Kills between 700,000; 1.2 million people every year.
Transmitted by mosquitoes. Prevention of infection is through the use of bed nets, which
although inexpensive, are too expensive for poor families.
Bacteria That Cause Human Disease - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Only a small fraction of bacteria
cause disease in humans. Bacterial infection can be prevented by killing bacteria with heat, as in
sterilization and pasteurization. Bacterial infection can be treated with antibiotics. However,
overuse of antibiotics has enabled the development of strains of bacteria that are resistant to
antibiotics, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Fungal infectious diseases of human - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Tinea unguium, a fungal infection
of the nail bed. athletes foot, most common human mycosis. Dermatophytic fungus
Epidermophyton floccosum, causative agent of athlete's foot, and tinea unguium. Aspergillosis,
blastomycosis, Candidiasis, Coccidioidomycosis, Cryptococcosis, Histoplasmosis, Tinea pedis,
Yeast Diaper Rash.
Aspergillosis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A "fungus ball" in an old tuberculosis cavity in the left
upper lung field. The "air-crescent sign" is the crescent shaped air space around fungus ball,
results from separation of a fragment of necrotic lung from adjacent viable parenchyma.
Double Stranded DNA Viruses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Adenovirus, papovavirus, herpesvirus,
poxvirus
