This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Virus And Bacteria – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Virus And Bacteria Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is the science of classifying. A) Genotype. B) Taxonomy. C) Biology. D) Binomial nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taxonomy. 2. A method that classifies organisms according to the order that they diverged from a common ancestor A) Cladistics. B) Dichotomous Key. C) Molecular Clock. D) Cladogram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cladistics. 3. A cell with no nucleus is called A) Endospore. B) Virus. C) Bacillus. D) Prokaryote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prokaryote. 4. A disease causing organism A) Lytic. B) Vaccine. C) Poison. D) Pathogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathogen. 5. Which of the following pathogens are prokaryotic? A) Bacteria. B) Fungus. C) Virus. D) Protists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 6. Which disease is caused by a virus, NOT bacteria? A) Tuberculosis. B) Pneumonia. C) Scarlet fever. D) Flu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flu. 7. An organism that lives in or on another organisms and benefits at the other organism's expense (for example, using the tissues or fluids of its host to survive). A) Parasite. B) Host Cell. C) Vaccine. D) Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasite. 8. How do viruses cause disease? A) By damaging or killing cells. B) By producing excess waste. C) By secreting toxins. D) By competing with healthy cells for nutrients. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By damaging or killing cells. 9. If you have a unicellular prokaryotic organism with a cell wall that does not have pepitdoglycan, could you tell which kingdom it belongs to? A) Archaea. B) Protista. C) Plantae. D) Eubacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archaea. 10. What is the protein coat called on a virus? A) Capsule. B) Capsid. C) Codon. D) Corpuscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capsid. 11. A virus that has taken control of the host cell and is replicating is ..... A) Harmless. B) Latent. C) Active. D) Beneficial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Active. 12. Bacteria reproduce through the process of? A) Host cells. B) Regeneration. C) Binary fission. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Binary fission. 13. Which is not considered to be a living organism? A) Parasite. B) Virus. C) Fungus. D) Bacterium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Virus. 14. Viruses are found in ..... A) Air. B) Water. C) Soil. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 15. Which of these is written correctly? A) Homo Sapiens. B) Homo Sapiens. C) Homo sapiens. D) Homo sapiens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo sapiens. 16. What do you need to be able to see bacteria and viruses? A) 3D Glasses. B) Microscope. C) Telescope. D) Sunglasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microscope. 17. Used to clean up industrial, agricultural, and municipal wastes A) Lactic-cid. B) Autotrophs. C) Binary fission. D) Bioremediation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bioremediation. 18. I am single celled, and I only have one parent. My cell does not have an organized nucleus. Sometimes I cause diseases. Other times I am a decomposer. A) Bacteria. B) Archaea. C) Animalia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 19. Does not contain a nucleus or membrane-bound organelles A) Viruses. B) Bacteria. C) Both viruses and bacteria. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both viruses and bacteria. 20. What shape is bacteria? A) Round. B) Straight. C) Twisted. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 21. What is the type of archaebacteria that lives in very salty environments, such as the Dead Sea. A) Halophile. B) Methanogen. C) Saltogen. D) Thermophile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Halophile. 22. A doctor prescribed an antibiotic to treat an illness. Which type of illness did the doctor most likely treat? A) Viral infection. B) Cancer. C) Bacterial infection. D) Heart disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bacterial infection. 23. What type of organism can be found in extreme environments such as the bottom of the ocean? A) Ebola. B) Eukaryotes. C) Viruses. D) Archaea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Archaea. 24. Which of the following is a unicellular fungus? A) Algae. B) Foraminifera. C) Yeast. D) Amoeba. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yeast. 25. Bacteria that grows in chains A) Coccus. B) Bacillus. C) Staph. D) Strep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strep. 26. Kingdom Protista includes species that are ..... A) Plant like and animal like. B) Unicellular and multicellular. C) Neither one of these answers. D) Plant-like, animal-like, unicellular, and multicelluar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plant-like, animal-like, unicellular, and multicelluar. 27. Viruses make a copy of itself by invading a host cell in a living organism. This is called ..... A) Natural immunity. B) Replication. C) Conjugation. D) Reproduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replication. 28. The shape of bacteria help them ..... A) Move. B) Eat. C) Protect themselves. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 29. All of the following are examples of fungi except one. Which of the following is NOT a type of fungus? A) Algae. B) Yeast. C) Mushroom. D) Mold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Algae. 30. What must you rely on if you get a viral infection? A) Antibiotics. B) Vaccines. C) Immune System. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immune System. 31. Which statement is true about viruses? A) Viruses can eat and metabolize food. B) Viruses can reproduce only using a host cell. C) Viruses can reproduce on their own at any time. D) Viruses contain DNA, so they are alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Viruses can reproduce only using a host cell. 32. What can you infer about protozoans from the fact they are single-celled organisms? A) They probably can't be seen without a microscope. B) They probably have no DNA in their cells. C) They are probably unable to make humans sick. D) They are probably poorly adapted to their environments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They probably can't be seen without a microscope. 33. Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes differ because: A) Prokaryotes are usually single celled. And eukaryotes are multicellular and single celled. B) Eukaryotes have a nucleas and membraine-bound organelles and prokaryotes don't. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 34. How do viruses differ from other disease-causing organisms? A) Viruses are made up of cells. B) Viruses multiply inside infected cells. C) Viruses can be treated with antibiotics. D) Viruses are transmitted though cough or sneezing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Viruses multiply inside infected cells. 35. Which of the following infectious organisms is the smallest? A) Paramecium. B) Virus. C) Bacteria. D) Prokaryote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Virus. 36. In which way are viruses and cells similar? A) Structures. B) Reproduction. C) Genetic Material. D) Life cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetic Material. 37. Which vector is associated with the West Nile Virus and malaria? A) Squirrels. B) Birds. C) Mosquitoes. D) Ticks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mosquitoes. 38. What does a virus have on the outside? A) Crispy skin. B) A fur coat. C) Membrane. D) A protein coat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A protein coat. 39. Which disease is caused by a fungus? A) Athlete's Foot. B) Measels. C) Tinitus. D) Lyme Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Athlete's Foot. 40. Diseases that can be transmitted between people are A) Environmental. B) Inherited. C) Congential. D) Infectious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Infectious. 41. A pathogen becoming stronger over time until it can no longer be treated by usual methods is known as A) Lysogenic cycle. B) Memory cell misfunction. C) Immunization. D) Antibiotic resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antibiotic resistance. 42. Which best describes how viruses affect many organisms? A) They reduce heat energy in the organisms. B) They cause disease in the organisms. C) They provide energy to the organisms. D) They increase reproduction in the organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They cause disease in the organisms. 43. What field of study names living things? A) Taxidermy. B) Namology. C) Taxi Driving. D) Taxonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taxonomy. 44. Bacteria that use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water to carbon compounds and oxygen as a way to obtain energy is ..... A) Phototrophic autotroph. B) Chemptrophic autotroph. C) Chemoheterophs. D) Photoheterotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phototrophic autotroph. 45. The correct steps of the lytic cycle are A) Lysis, Replication, Injection, Attatchment. B) Assembly, injection, lysis. C) Attachment, assembly, injection, replication, lysis. D) Attachment, injection, replication, assembly, lysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attachment, injection, replication, assembly, lysis. 46. Which of the following is TRUE about viruses? A) They do not contain genetic material. B) They can reproduce by themselves. C) They are alive. D) The are not made of cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The are not made of cells. 47. In the lytic cycle, the host cell A) Undergoes cell division. B) Destroys the virus. C) Becomes a virus. D) Is destroyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is destroyed. 48. The Archaea are known for living is environments that would kill other life. They are known as A) Extremophiles. B) Hydrophilic. C) Autotrophs. D) Heterotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extremophiles. 49. Consumer bacteria get their food through A) Chemotrophic processes. B) Photosynthesis. C) Mutualism. D) Consuming other organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consuming other organisms. 50. A tiny non-living particle that invades and then multiplies inside of a living cell is called a: A) Vaccine. B) Virus. C) Bacteriophage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Virus. 51. A collective mass of hyphae are referred to as ..... A) Fruiting. B) Spores. C) Mycelium. D) Parasitic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mycelium. 52. The substance that gives producer bacteria their green color is A) Chlorophyll. B) Chloroplasts. C) Cyanobacteria. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chlorophyll. 53. HIV is a ..... meaning that it is composed not of DNA but of RNA. A) Ebolavirus. B) Computer Virus. C) Retrovirus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Retrovirus. 54. Which of these organelles are not in a typical bacterial cell? A) Ribosome. B) Endoplasmic Reticulum. C) Cytoplasm. D) Cell wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endoplasmic Reticulum. 55. Any change in the genetic material of a cell or virus. A) Host. B) Parasite. C) Vector. D) Mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutation. 56. Bacteria cells have all of the following EXCEPT .....? A) Mitochondria. B) Ribosomes. C) Genetic material. D) Cell membrane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mitochondria. 57. Bacteria that live in places where there is a supply of oxygen are ..... A) Aerobic. B) Unique. C) Vaccinated. D) Anaerobic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aerobic. 58. A nonliving disease causing particle that contains genetic material A) Bacteria. B) Fungi. C) Virus. D) Protist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Virus. 59. Binary fission results in A) 2 genetically different cells. B) 4 genetically identical cells. C) 2 genetically identical cells. D) 4 genetically different cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 genetically identical cells. 60. What is gene therapy? A) When the virus acts as a messenger to carry DNA to a diseased cell. B) When a gene talks about its youth. C) Who's Gene?. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When the virus acts as a messenger to carry DNA to a diseased cell. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesVirus And Bacteria Quiz 1Virus And Bacteria Quiz 2Virus And Bacteria Quiz 3Virus And Bacteria Quiz 4Virus And Bacteria Quiz 5Virus And Bacteria Quiz 6Virus And Bacteria Quiz 7Virus And Bacteria Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books