Microbiology Important questions ( one liners )-10 Pharmacy

April 17, 20234.3k views 15 Points By Diksha Bhatla

This post contains some one liners of Microbiology. These will help you to strengthen your basics in Microbiology.

Yellowish color of the skin and mucous membranes caused by excessive bilirubin caused by a failure of the liver to effectively process the breakdown of hemoglobin

jaundice

Name a method of acid-fast staining that does not use heat to infuse the primary stain, carbolfuchsin, into acid-fast cells

Kinyoun technique

An interval before exponential growth of a microbial population during which cells adjust to a new environment

lag phase

Region of the respiratory tract containing the vocal cords; also referred to as the voice box

larynx

A rare form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy endemic to Papua New Guinea

kuru

A polymer assembled from of individual units, monomers, that bind together like building blocks

macromolecule

Lipid-based chemical mediators produced by leukocytes and other tissue cells; promote inflammation and allergic responses

leukotrienes

White blood cells of various types, including granulocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes

leukocytes

Larger nucleus in ciliate protists that have two nuclei; polyploid with a reduced genome of metabolic genes and derived from the micronucleus

macronucleus

#10

Repair of the sugar-phosphate backbone of the DNA, making the DNA molecule continuous

ligation

#11

The power of a microscope (or lens) to produce an image that appears larger than the actual specimen, expressed as a factor of the actual size

magnification

#12

The granulocytes similar in origin and function to basophils, but residing in tissues

mast cells

#13

The shorter identical peptide chains of an antibody molecule (two per antibody monomer), composed of variable and constant region segments

light chains

#14

Assembly of viral components to produce a functional virus

maturation

#15

Process by which energy from sunlight is absorbed by pigment molecules in photosynthetic membranes and converted into stored chemical energy in the forms of ATP and NADPH

light-dependent reaction