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  • Question
  • Which of the following genus belongs to family Spirochaetaceae?


  • Options
  • A. Treponema
  • B. Spirochaeta
  • C. Borrelia
  • D. All of these

  • Correct Answer
  • All of these 


  • More questions

    • 1. Which of the following defines an open reading frame (ORF)?

    • Options
    • A. A sequence of genome in bacteriophage
    • B. The sequence of a complete genome
    • C. A plasmid vector used in genome sequencing
    • D. A possible gene predicted by DNA sequencing
    • Discuss
    • 2. The bacterial sore throat is caused by

    • Options
    • A. Staphylococcus aureus
    • B. Haemophilus spp
    • C. Streptococcus pyogenes
    • D. Mycoplasma pneumoniae
    • Discuss
    • 3. The temperate phage possesses a gene that codes for a repressor protein which makes the cell resistant to lysis initiated by

    • Options
    • A. the prophage
    • B. lytic infection by other viruses
    • C. Both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. Because it can be used with a variety of media and allow a resuscitation step the __________ technique has become the common and often preferred method of evaluating the microbiological characteristics of water.

    • Options
    • A. most probable number
    • B. Winogradsky
    • C. MUG
    • D. membrane filtration
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following property(ies), shown by the organisms belong(s) to the family Enterobacteriaceae?

    • Options
    • A. They are catalase-positive
    • B. They are oxidase-negative
    • C. They ferment glucose
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. The hepadnaviruses such as hepatitis B virus are quite different from other DNA viruses with respect to genome replication. These replicate their DNA using

    • Options
    • A. DNA-dependent DNA polymerase
    • B. reverse transcriptase
    • C. Rnase H
    • D. DNA ligase
    • Discuss
    • 7. Which of the following disease is caused by Yersinia enterocolitica in man?

    • Options
    • A. Gastroenteritis
    • B. Mesenteric lymphadenitis
    • C. Septicaemia
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. Surface taint in butter which is blamed on Pseudomonas putrefaciens is also called as

    • Options
    • A. rabbito
    • B. putridity
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. The technique(s), used for the assay of heat-labile enterotoxin produced by Escherichia coli, is/are

    • Options
    • A. Steroid production in Yl mouse adrenal cell culture
    • B. Morphological changes in Chinese hamster ovary
    • C. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. The affinity of an enzyme for its substrate, when the enzyme has a Km of 0.50 M will be __________ than the affinity of an enzyme for its substrate when the enzyme has a Km of 0.05 M.

    • Options
    • A. greater
    • B. lesser
    • C. approximately equal
    • D. half
    • Discuss


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