WGU C453 Clinical Microbiology: Questions With
Correct Answers
Contains Teichoic Acid? Right Ans - Gram Positive Bacteria
Contains Lipopolysaccharide? Right Ans - Gram Negative Bacteria
Contains Mycholic Acid? Right Ans - Acid Fast Bacteria
What lacks Mitochondria? Right Ans - Bacteria
Contains 10-20% Peptidoglycan? Right Ans - Gram Neg Bacteria
Which type of bacteria are impossible to gram stain? Right Ans - Wall
Deficient Bacteria
Which type of bacteria is slow-growing? Right Ans - Acid Fast Bacteria
Why are Acid Fast Bateria slow-growing? Right Ans - High Lipid content
Which bacteria contain sterols? Right Ans - Wall Deficient Bacteria
Which bacteria have a cell wall and an outer membrane? Right Ans - Gram
Neg. Bacteria
Found only in Gram Neg. Bacteria, causes fever and inflammation? Right
Ans - Lipopolysaccharide
The active area of cell metabolism only found in Gram Neg. Bacteria? Right
Ans - Periplasmic Space
Which microorganism lack mitochondria? Right Ans - Bacteria
Spherical shaped bacteria? Right Ans - Coccus
Allows bacteria to adhere to surfaces and each other? Right Ans - Capsule
Protects cell from bursting? Right Ans - Peptidoglycan
, Order of thickness of peptidoglycan? Right Ans - Gram Pos., Acid Fast, then
Gram Neg.
Regulates the movement of substances into and out of the cell? Right Ans -
Cell Membrane
Contains Adhesins, involved in conjugation, and increases the pathogenicity of
N. Gonorrhoeae? Right Ans - Pili
Resistant to heat and drying? Right Ans - Endospores
Clostridium is capable of producing? Right Ans - Endospores
Flagella facilitate? Right Ans - Chemotaxis
Reverse transcriptase belongs to what family? Right Ans - Retroviridae
Family
Intracellular pathogens that require a host cell to replicate? Right Ans -
Viruses
Contains an external membrane? Right Ans - Enveloped Virus
Does not contain an external membrane? Right Ans - Naked Virus
Which DNA virus is not in a viral group? Right Ans - Positive Sense DNA
Which family is composed of negative-sense single-stranded RNA with an
envelope and causes the flu? Right Ans - Orthomyxoviridae
Which type of infectious agent can be multicellular or single-celled and can
produce both sexually and asexually? Right Ans - Fungi
What kind of Fungi are Histoplasma? Right Ans - Dimorphic Fungi
What kind of Fungi can grow in yeast-like form or as a filamentous mycelium?
Right Ans - Dimorphic Fungi
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