Chapter 32 Microbial Interactions

Chapter 32 Microbial Interactions

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

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Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ arises when different microbes within a population or community try to acquire the same resource.
   A.Amensalism
   B. Competition
   C. Disruption
   D. Syntropism

ASM Objective: 05.04 Microorganisms, cellular and viral, can interact with both human and nonhuman hosts in beneficial, neutral or detrimental ways.
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Learning Outcome: 32.01.01 Compare and contrast different types of microbial interactions, including mutualism, cooperation, commensalism, predation, parasitism, amensalism, and competition
Section: 32.01
Topic: Symbiotic Relationships

2. From which of the following body sites would you expect to isolate Staphylococcus, Propionibacterium, Streptococcus and Corynebacterium as the primary colonizing microbiota?
   A. Skin
   B.  Deep gum regions
   C.  Small intestine
   D.  Stomach

ASM Objective: 05.01 Microorganisms are ubiquitous and live in diverse and dynamic ecosystems.
ASM Objective: 06.01 Microbes are essential for life as we know it and the processes that support life (e.g. in biogeochemical cycles and plant and / or animal microbiota).
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
Blooms Level: 4. Analyze
Learning Outcome: 32.03.01 Report the common culturable organisms associated with various body sites
Section: 32.03
Topic: Resident Microbiota

3. From which body region would you expect to isolate Clostridium, Bacteroides, Fusobacterium and other anaerobic genera?
   A. Large intestine
   B.  Skin
   C.  Nasopharynx
   D.  Stomach

ASM Objective: 05.01 Microorganisms are ubiquitous and live in diverse and dynamic ecosystems.
ASM Objective: 06.01 Microbes are essential for life as we know it and the processes that support life (e.g. in biogeochemical cycles and plant and / or animal microbiota).
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
Blooms Level: 4. Analyze
Learning Outcome: 32.03.01 Report the common culturable organisms associated with various body sites
Section: 32.03
Topic: Resident Microbiota

4. If the predominating microbiota of a particular human body site included Lactobacillus, Gardnerella, and Bacteroides, it would not be unusual to isolate which of the following genera as well?
   A. Candida
   B.  Neisseria
   C.  Bacillus
   D.  Hemophilus

ASM Objective: 05.01 Microorganisms are ubiquitous and live in diverse and dynamic ecosystems.
ASM Objective: 06.01 Microbes are essential for life as we know it and the processes that support life (e.g. in biogeochemical cycles and plant and / or animal microbiota).
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
Blooms Level: 5. Evaluate
Learning Outcome: 32.03.01 Report the common culturable organisms associated with various body sites
Section: 32.03
Topic: Resident Microbiota

5. Microbes such as Lactobacillus acidophilus colonize the human vagina by fermenting                .
   A.  glycogen
   B.  glucose
   C.  lactose
   D.  sucrose

ASM Objective: 05.01 Microorganisms are ubiquitous and live in diverse and dynamic ecosystems.
ASM Objective: 05.03 Microorganisms and their environment interact with and modify each other.
ASM Objective: 06.01 Microbes are essential for life as we know it and the processes that support life (e.g. in biogeochemical cycles and plant and / or animal microbiota).
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Learning Outcome: 32.03.02 Predict the environmental host conditions that favor the association of acidophilic, anaerobic, lactic acid fermenting, and halophilic bacteria
Section: 32.03
Topic: Resident Microbiota