Microorganisms
Q.1. What are microorganisms? What is the other name for microorganisms?
Q.2. Who is known as the father of bacteriology?
Q.3. Who gave the germ theory of diseases?
Q.4. Who designed several techniques of handling bacteria?
Q.5. What are the characteristics of microorganisms?
Q.6. What is the study of microorganisms called?
Q.7. Where is bacteria found?
Q.8. What is the size of a bacteria?
Q.9. Bacteria is classified into how many types on the basis of shapes?
Q.10. What is a fungi?
Q.11. Name a unicellular fungus?
Q.12. Name some multicellular fungi?
Q.13. How do fungi obtain food?
Q.14. How do fungi reproduce?
Q.15. What is algae?
Q.16. Name some unicellular algae?
Q.17. Name some multicellular algae?
Q.18. What is a protozoa?
Q.19. Name some common protozoans?
Q.20. How do protozoa move?
Q.21. What is a virus?
Q.22. Which diseases are caused by viruses?
Q.23. What are virions?
Q.24. How do viruses obtain their food?
Q.25. What are the uses of microorganisms?
Q.26. Which bacteria promotes the formation of curd?
Q.27. What are the uses of bacteria?
Q.28. What is the commercial use of microorganisms?
Q.29. What is fermentation?
Q.30. What are antibiotics?
Q.31. Name some antibiotics?
Q.32. Explain how a vaccine works?
Q.33. Which diseases can be prevented by vaccination?
Q.34. Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox?
Q.35. What are communicable diseases?
Q.36. Give examples of communicable diseases?
Q.37. How do carriers of disease causing microbes work?
Q.38. Which mosquito carries the parasite of malaria? What is the parasite called?
Q.39. Name some common human diseases caused by microorganisms? State which kind of microorganisms cause these diseases?
Q.40. State different diseases of microorganisms and their modes of transmission?
Q.41. What are the preventive measures for tuberculosis, measles, chicken pox and polio?
Q.42. What are the preventive measures for cholera and typhoid?
Q.43. What is the preventive measure for Hepatitis A?
Q.44. What is the preventive measure for malaria?
Q.45. What is anthrax?
Q.46. Name some common plant diseases and which microorganisms cause them?
Q.47. What is food poisoning?
Q.48. What is a mucor?
Q.49. Give some methods of food preservation?
Q.50. How is sun drying useful for food preservation?
Q.51. What is salting?
Q.52. Name three chemicals used for food preservation?
Q.53. What is pasteurization? Who discovered it?
