BARBER STATE BOARD FINAL PAPER PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS PACKAGE

BARBER STATE BOARD FINAL PAPER
PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS PACKAGE

●● What is the study of bacteria called?
Answer: bacteriology


●● What is nonpathogenic bacteria?
Answer: Non disease producing bacteria


●● What is a pathogenic bacteria?
Answer: bacteria that cause disease


●● What percent of bacteria lives in our skin?
Answer: Approx. 70%


●● What is a virus?
Answer: a tiny, nonliving, particle that enters and reproduces inside a
living cell (host)


●● HIV and HPV are examples of
Answer: Virus

,●● Treatment for viruses
Answer: vaccines


●● What is a parasite?
Answer: an organism that lives on or in a host and causes it harm


●● What is a parasitic fungi?
Answer: molds and yeasts that produce contagious diseases


●● Types of bacteria
Answer: cocci, bacilli, spirilla


●● What are the two ways that bacteria moves?
Answer: Flagella or cilia


●● How does flagella move?
Answer: Wave like motion


●● How does cilia move?
Answer: Rowing like motion

, ●● Description of cocci
Answer: Round shaped bacteria cells


●● Description of bacilli
Answer: Bar or rod shaped bacteria cells


●● Description of spirilla
Answer: Spiraled, coiled, corkscrew-shaped bacterial cells


●● example of cocci
1. Staphylococci
2. Streptococci
3. Diplococci
Answer: 1. Staphylococci- Present in boils, abscesses, and pustules
(grape like bunches or clusters)
2. Streptococci- Causes strep throat, rheumatic fever and other serious
infections (long chains)
3. Diplococci- Can cause pneumonia (grows in pairs)


●● Example of bacilli
Answer: E. coli
(produce a variety of diseases including tetanus, bacterial influenza,
tuberculosis)