Microbiology Important questions ( one liners )-13 Pharmacy

April 22, 2023568 views 15 Points By Diksha Bhatla

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

On a light microscope, the lenses closest to the specimen, typically located at the ends of turrets is called as

objective lenses

A form of microbial control using heat that is applied to foods; kills pathogens and reduces the number of spoilage-causing microbes while maintaining food quality

pasteurization

Microorganism that cannot synthesize its own ATP and, therefore, must rely on a host cell for energy; behaves like a parasite when inside a host cell,

obligate intracellular pathogen

An adaptive immune defenses received from another individual or animal

passive immunity

A a special objective lens on a microscope designed to be used with immersion oil to improve resolution

oil immersion lens

An individual capable of transmitting a pathogen to another individual without becoming infected

passive carrier

The short fragment of DNA made during lagging strand synthesis

Okazaki fragment

Name the most serious stage of pertussis (whooping cough), characterized by severe and prolonged coughing spells

paroxysmal stage

DNA sequence located between the promoter region and the first coding gene to which a repressor protein can bind

operator

#10

The means of entry by a pathogen through skin or mucous membranes when these barriers are breached

parenteral route

#11

Name the type of symbiosis in which one population benefits while harming the other parasitology the study of parasites

parasitism

#12

A group of genes with related functions often found clustered together within the prokaryotic chromosome and transcribed under the control of a single promoter and operator repression sequence

operon

#13

This refers to a cytokine signal released from a cell to a receptor on a nearby cell

paracrine function

#14

Inflammation of the conjunctiva in newborns caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmitted during childbirth

ophthalmia neonatorum

#15

Growth on the skin associated with infection by any of the human papilloma viruses (HPV); commonly known as a wart

papilloma