Microbiology Demystified

What enables scientists to take nucleotide fragments from other DNA and reassemble fragments into a new nucleotide sequence? (a ...

Which of the following is not a type of RNA? (a) rRNA (b) uRNA (c) tRNA (d) mRNA An operon consists of structural DNA, regulato ...

An incubatory carrier is an individual who transmits the disease before becoming symptomatic. (a) True (b) False The number of ...

The sum of old and new cases of a disease is called (a) incidence (b) prevalence rate (c) morbidity rate (d) prevalence Convale ...

Pieces of the host cell's membrane make (a) the capsid (b) the envelope of a virus (c) the nuclei of the virus (d) the nuclei o ...

Which is not a layer of the body of helminths? (a) mesoderm (b) ectoderm (c) exoderm (d) endoderm Stipes support (a) blades (b) ...

A pneumatocyst is (a) a gas-filled bladder that enables algae to float (b) a way for protozoa to absorb nutrients (c) something ...

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271 A Acanthamoeba polyphaga, 176 Acetic acid, 97 Acetobacter, 156 Acid-fast microorganisms, 62 Acids, 37 Acquired immunity, 21 ...

Antigen-antibody complex, 217 Antigens, 212, 214, 217 Antihelminthic drugs, 245 Antimetabolites, 242 Antimicrobial drugs, 113–11 ...

Beta-oxidation, 97–98 Binary fission, 108 Binding, 214–216 Binominal nomenclature, 5 Biogenesis, Theory of, 11 Biosynthesis, 187 ...

Chrysophytes, 172 Cilia, 78–79, 177 Ciliates, 177 Class, 144–145 Classification of microorganisms natural classification, 146–14 ...

Electron carrier molecules, 88–89 Electron microscopes, 58–60 Electron transport chain, 95–96 Electrons, 25 Electrophoresis, 133 ...

Fission, 169, 174 Flagella, 70–71, 78–79, 172, 176 Flatworms, 179–180 Flaviviruses, 190 Fleming, Alexander, 16–18, 232 Flora, 3 ...