MCB 102 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND

ANSWERS
Compiled by COMR. AFOLABI SAMUEL BAMIDELE
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1. What is Microbiology?
a) Study of molecules that are visible to human eyes
b) Study of animals and their family
c) Study of organisms that are not visible to naked eyes
d) Study of microscope
Answer - C

2. Who is known as the father of Microbiology?

a) Edwin John Butler
b) Ferdinand Cohn
c) Robert Koch
d) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Answer - D

3. Which microorganism(s) among the following perform photosynthesis by utilizing light?

a) Cyanobacteria, Fungi and Viruses
b) Viruses
c) Cyanobacteria
d) Fungi
Answer - C
4. Which part of the compound microscope helps in gathering and focusing light rays on the
specimen to be viewed?
a) Condenser lens
b) Magnifying lens
c) Objective lens
d) Eyepiece lens
Answer - A

5. Which of the following are produced by microorganisms?

a) Alcoholic beverages
b) Fermented dairy products
c) Breads
d) All of the mentioned
Answer - D

6. What is the approximate size of the bacterial cell?

a) 1mm in diameter
b) 0.5 to 1.0 micrometer in diameter
c) 2mm in diameter
d) 2 micrometer in diameter
Answer - B

7. The greatest resolution in light microscopy can be obtained with ___________

a) Shortest wavelength of visible light used
b) Longest wavelength of visible light used
c) An objective with minimum numerical aperture
d) Shortest wavelength of visible light used and an objective with the maximum numerical
aperture
Answer - D
8. Which of the following is used in electron microscope?
a) electron beams and magnetic fields
b) light waves
c) magnetic fields
d) electron beams
Answer - A

9. Which among the following are “Spirochetes”?

a) Streptomyces sp.
b) Treponema pallidum
c) Spirillum volutans
d) Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Answer - B

10. Bacteria having clusters of flagella at both poles of cells are known as?
a) Amphitrichous
b) Monotrichous
c) Peritrichous
d) Lophotrichous
Answer - A

11. The respiratory chain of bacteria is associated with the _____________

a) cytoplasmic membrane
b) cell wall
c) cytoplasm
d) mitochondrial membrane
Answer - A
12. Glycolysis can occur in ___________
a) anaerobic cells
b) aerobic cells
c) neither aerobic and anaerobic cells
d) both aerobic and anaerobic cells
Answer - D

13. Which of the following enzyme removes the RNA primer with its 5’-nuclease activity?
a) DNA polymerase III
b) RNA polymerase
c) DNA polymerase I
d) DNA polymerase II
Answer - C

14. Phosphorus is essential component of __________

a) phospholipids
b) teichoic acid
c) nucleotides
d) All of the mentioned
Answer - D

15. The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is which type of bacteria?

a) Mesophile
b) Mesophile and psychrophile
c) Psychrophile
d) Thermophile
Answer - A
16. Growth of bacteria or microorganisms refer to __________________
a) changes in the total population
b) an increase in number of cells
c) an increase in the size of an individual organism
d) an increase in the mass of an individual organism
Answer - B

17. Which of the following method can be used to determine the number of bacteria
quantitatively?
a) Spread-plate
b) Streak-plate
c) Pour-plate and spread plate
d) Pour plate
Answer - C

18. Which among the following are microaerophilic bacteria?

a) Treponema
b) Borrelia
c) Spirochaeta
d) Cristispira
Answer - B

19. Penicillin causes inhibition of Mycoplasmas.

a) False
b) True
Answer - A
20. What are the cell wall structural components of fungi?
a) peptidoglycan
b) cellulose
c) chitin
d) chitin, cellulose, or hemicellulose
Answer - D

21. Cryptococcosis is a disease of ________________

a) viral infection
b) mycotic infection
c) parasitic infection
d) bacterial infection
Answer - B

22. Which among the following is a pathogenic algae for humans?

a) Cephaleuros
b) Acanthopeltis
c) Chlorella
d) Prototheca
Answer - D

23. Chrysolaminarin is the reserved food of ______________

a) Bacillariophycophyta
b) Xanthophycophyta
c) Chlorophycophyta
d) Phaeophycophyta
Answer - B
24. Protozoa that eat other organisms are known as _______________
a) parasitic
b) mutualistic
c) holozoic
d) saprophytic
Answer - C

25. Plasmodium divides by which of the following method most commonly?

a) Regeneration
b) Budding
c) Binary fission
d) Multiple fission
Answer - D

26. Which of the following is a family of lambda phage viruses?

a) Styloviridae
b) Corticoviridae
c) Microviridae
d) Pedoviridae
Answer - A

27. What does a viral DNA becomes after being associated with the bacterial chromosome?
a) plasmid
b) plaque
c) prophage
d) gene
Answer - C
28. Vaccination was invented by ____________
a) Watson
b) Jenner
c) Crick
d) Pasteur
Answer - B

29. For which viral disease, vaccine has been recently developed through the use of tissue
culture?
a) S mallpox
b) Rabies
c) Mumps
d) Measles
Answer - D

30. Which of the following inhibits DNA replication?

a) x-rays
b) gamma rays
c) UV light
d) cathode rays
Answer - C

31. Which was the first disease for which a chemotherapeutic agent was used?
a) Small pox
b) Syphilis
c) AIDS
d) Malaria
Answer - B
32. Bacterial cells grown in a medium exposed to high osmotic pressure, changes shape from
rod-shaped to __________ shaped.
a) elongated
b) irregular
c) rod shaped
d) spherical
Answer - D

33. Tyrocidines are more effective against ______________

a) Gram-negative organisms
b) Gram-positive organisms
c) Spirochetes
d) Mycoplasmas
Answer - B

34. Which of the following is the most accurate method for microbial assay of antibiotics?
a) Chemical and biological assay
b) Biological assay
c) Chemical assay
d) Physical assay
Answer - C

35. Which among the following is not an ammonia-oxidizing bacteria?

a) Nitrospina gracilis
b) Nitrosococcus oceanus
c) Nitrosomonas europaea
d) Nitrosovibrio tenuis
Answer - A
36. Cellulose is degraded to cellobiose by the enzyme __________________
a) cellulose dehydrogenase
b) hexokinase
c) beta-glucosidase
d) cellulase
Answer - D

37. Sulphates are reduced to hydrogen sulphide by _____________

a) Thiobacillus thiooxidans
b) Rhodospirillum
c) Desulfotomaculum sp.
d) Photosynthetic sulfur bacteria
Answer - C

38. The microorganisms from lakes and rivers can grow at a salt concentration of _________
a) above 1 percent
b) below 1 percent
c) 2.5 to 4 percent
d) 5 percent
Answer - B

39. In regions of the estuary that are nutritionally poor, it is more likely to find which of the
following organisms?
a) viruses
b) coliforms
c) fecal streptococci
d) appendaged bacteria
Answer - D
40. In which of the following treatment involve oxidation of organic constituents of the
wastewater?
a) Final treatment
b) Advanced treatment
c) Secondary treatment
d) Primary treatment
Answer - C

41. Which among the following group of microorganisms are found in the ducts of cow’s
mammary glands?
a) Micrococci
b) Microbacteria
c) Lactobacilli
d) Coliforms
Answer - A

42. Which of the following microorganism is eliminated in canned foods?

a) Lactobacillus
b) Clostridium botulinum
c) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
d) Coxiella burnetii
Answer - B

43. Bacterial cell grown on hydrocarbon wastes from the petroleum industry are a source of
_____________
a) fats
b) vitamins
c) carbohydrates
d) proteins
Answer - D

44. Which of the following microorganism produces dextran?

a) Leuconostoc mesenteroides
b) Streptomyces olivaceus
c) Bacillus thuringiensis
d) Bacillus polymyxa
Answer - A

45. The principal microorganism for yogurt is __________

a) Leuconostoc citrovorum
b) Streptococcus lactis
c) Streptococcus thermophilus
d) Lactobacillus acidophilus
Answer - C

46. Which of the following yeast can be used to produce microbial protein?
a) Eremothecium ashbyi
b) Candida utilis
c) Saccharomyces cerevisiae
d) Candida milleri
Answer - B

47. Acridine orange is which type of mutagen?

a) chemical compounds
b) transposons
c) base analog
d) intercalating agents
Answer - D

48. Lipopolysaccharide in cell walls is characteristic of?

a) Algae
b) Fungi
c) Gram-negative bacteria
d) Gram-positive bacteria
Answer - C

49. Which of the following are present in teichoic acids?

a) glycerol residues
b) ribitol residues
c) ribitol or glycerol residues
d) glucose residues
Answer - C

50. Which of the following are true for cytoplasmic membrane?

a) site of generation of protonmotive force
b) hydrophilic barrier
c) hydrophobic barrier
d) hydrophobic barrier and site of generation of protonmotive force
Answer – D

51. All the bacteria fix nitrogen except

a) Rhizobium
b) E.coli
c) Azotobacter
d) cyanobacteria
Answer - B

52. Differential staining of bacteria on Gram staining is due to

a) difference in the cell wall layer components of Gram positive and Gram
negative bacteria
b) difference in the cell structure of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria
c) difference in the mode of nutrition of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria
d) none of the above
Answer – A

53. The iodine used in Gram staining serves as a

a) chelator
b) catalyst
c) mordant
d) cofactor
Answer - C

54. Which among the following is called as filamentous bacteria

a) Mycoplasmas
b) Spirochetes
c) Actinomycetes
d) Vibrios
Answer – C

55. Which of the following group of bacteria is considered as a link between

bacteria and virus
a) Mycoplasmas
b) Spirochaetes
c) Actinomycetes
d) Vibrios
Answer - A

56. Cork-screw shaped forms of bacteria are

a) bacilli
b) stalked bacteria
c) spirochaetes
d) actinomycetes
Answer - C

57. The ability of bacteria to change their morphological form frequently is termed
as
a) lysogeny
b) pleomorphism
c) alteromorphism
d) none of these
Answer – B

58. Bacterial cell wall is made up of

a) chitin
b) cellulose
c) dextran
d) peptidoglycan
Answer – D

59. Bacterial flagella is made up of

a) microtubules
b) tubulin
c) flagellin
d) spinin
Answer – C

60. Surface appendage of bacteria meant for cell-cell attachment during

conjugation is
a) pili
b) flagella
c) spinae
d) cilia
Answer – A

61. Spinae is rigid tubular appendages in

a) Gram positive bacteria
b) Gram negative bacteria
c) both a and b
d) actinomycetes
Answer – A

62. The region where bacterial genome resides is termed as

a) nucleus
b) cytoplasm
c) nucleoid
d) ribosome free region
Answer – C

63. Bacterial chromosome is

a) single stranded and circular
b) double stranded and circular
c) single stranded and linear
d) double stranded and linear
Answer – B

64. Extra chromosomal, circular, double stranded, self-replicating DNA molecule

in bacteria is called
a) cosmid
b) plasmid
c) phagemid
d) phasmid
Answer – B

65. Membraneous infolding in bacteria that initiate DNA replication is

a) mesosomes
b) carboxysome
c) magnetosome
d) nulcleosome
Answer – A
66. The permeability barrier of bacterial cell is galled
A)Flagella
B) Capsule
C) Cell wall
D) CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE
Answer - D

67. The structure that stabilizes mating bacteria during DNA transfer by
conjugation is
A) Fimbriae
B) Cell wall
C).SEX PILUS
D) S-layer
Answer - C

68. The cytoplasmic region of cell is composed Of the following except

A)Inclusions
B) Ribosomes
C) Cytoplasm
D) CAPSULE
Answer - D

69. The bacteria cell wall provides

A)Food
B) Structural support
C) Shape
D) B AND C
Answer - D

70. The structure that serve as protection against phagocytic engulfment of bacteria
is
A) Cilia
B) Flagella
C) CAPSULE
D) Cell membrane
Answer - C

71. Some bacteria cells communicate with each Other using structures called
A) Plasmid
B) NANOWIRES
C) Cell membrane
D) Ribosomes
Answer - B

72. Spherical Or ball shaped bacterium is called

A) COCCUS
B) Bacillus
C) Spirillum
D) Vibrio
Answer - A

73. Short and plump rod shaped bacterium is called

A) Spirochete
B) Vibrio
C) COCCOBACILLUS
D) None of the above
Answer - C

74. Methane producing Archaeans are called

A) Halophiles
B) METHANOGENS
C) Thermophiles
D) Mesophiles
Answer - B

76. Archaeans absorb sunlight using

A) Chlorophyll
B) BACTERIORHODOPSIN C) Carotenoids
D) All of the above
Answer - B

77. In general, eukaryotic microbial cells have

A) Golgi apparatus
B) Vacuoles
C) Mitochondria
D) ALL OF THE ABOVE
Answer - D
78. The outermost boundary Of eukaryotic cells in contact with the environment is
called
A) GLYCOCALYX
B) Cell wall
C) Cytoplasmic membrane D) Cilia
Answer - A

79. The power house of the eukaryotic cell is called

A) Ribosomes
B) Cytoplasm
C) Golgi body
D) MITOCHONDRIA
Answer - D

80. The dormant body formed within some bacterial that allows for survival in
adverse
conditions is called
A) Storage vacuole
B) Endoplasmic reticulum C) Endospore
D) Golgi
Answer – C

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