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1. Foreign antigen are otherwise known as?

A. Autoantigen
B. Immunogen
C. Heteroantigen
D. Allergen
2. The mixture of MCOS that are regularly found at anatomical site of human body are
called?
A. Body organism
B. Bacteria
C. Normal flora
D. Microbiota
3. What causes enteric fever?
A. E. coli
B. S. aureus
C. S. typhi
D. C. botulinum
4. What are those organism that live in our body for a period then move on or die called?
A. Normal flora
B. Resident flora
C. Transient flora
D. Flora
5. The adaptive immunity is non-specific
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
6. A severe allergic reaction is called?
A. Hypersensitivity
B. Allergy
C. Anaphylaxis
D. Auto immune disorder
7. What are self-antigen called?
A. Autoallergen
B. Immunogen
C. Auto-antigen
D. Antibodies
8. Antigen-antibody complexes are formed when both bind through their respective what?
A. Cell wall
B. Nucleus
C. Receptor
D. Indicator
9. The lymphocytes belongs to which arm of immunity?
A. Lymphoid
B. Erythroid
C. Adaptive
D. Innate
10. The naïve T- Lymphocyte undergo training at which organ?
A. Bone marrow
B. Osteoblast
C. Thymus
D. Thyroid gland
11. Which infection does Salmonella paratyphii cause?
A. Fever
B. Headache
C. Enteric fever
D. Malaria
12. Normal flora do not contribute to immunity.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
13. MHC class 1 is expressed by
A. Self-antigen
B. B cells
C. Dendritic cell
D. T cells
14. Normal flora that is always present on our body are called?
A. Transient flora
B. Resident flora
C. Fauna
D. Biota
15. What are unicellular, prokaryotic microorganism?
A. Fungi
B. Bacteria
C. Parasite
D. Archea
16. What are the viruses that infest bacteria called?
A. Phage
B. Phagocytes
C. Parasitic virus
D. Virion
17. What is the name given to harmless antigen?
A. Immunogen
B. Antigen
C. Allergen
18. Which antibody is present in colostrum?
A. IgA
B. IgG
C. IgD
D. IgE
19. Which of the immunoglobulins mediate allergic reaction
A. IgA
B. IgD
C. IgE
D. IgG
20. When antigen naturally induce antibody production, it is said to be what?
A. Naturally active immunity
B. Naturally passive immunity
C. Artificially active immunity
D. Artificially passive immunity
21. When antigen are introduced via vaccine, it confers what type of immunity?
A. Naturally active immunity
B. Naturally passive immunity
C. Artificially active immunity
D. Artificially passive immunity
22. What is the other name for HLA
A. MHC
B. MBC
C. HLB
D. CPC
23. All nucleated cell in human being expresses what class of MHC
A. I
B. II
C. III
D. IV
24. What is termed as the professional APC?
A. Neutrophils
B. Basophils
C. Dendritic cells
D. Monocytes
25. Which infection Toxoplasma gondii causes?
A. Toxoplasmodium
B. Toxoplasmosis
C. Toxoplasmodiasis
D. Toxoplasmodialysis
26. ________ and _______ antibodies are involved in type II hypersensitivity.
A. IgE
B. IgM
C. IgG
D. A&C
27. Which of the following is an example of granulocyte?
A. Mast cell
B. T Cells
C. RBC
D. Platelets
28. What is programmed cell death called?
A. Necrosis
B. Apoptosis
C. Cytosis
D. Cytolysis
29. Mucin, agglutinin and antibody production are function of B-CELLS
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
30. Which of the following is an example of coliform?
A. E.coli
B. S. aureus
C. H. pylori
D. Toxoplasma gondii
31. What is primary stain in gram staining is
A. Crystal violet
B. Iodine solution
C. safrannin
D. methylene blue
E.
32. Which color do gram negative bacteria assume after gram staining procedure?
A. Red or pink
B. Blue
C. Purple
D. Yellow
33. What is introduction of microbes to the culture medium called?
A. Inoculation
B. Identification
C. Introduction
D. Transfer
34. What type of peptidoglycan cell wall does gram positive bacteria have?
A. Thick
B. Thin
C. Mucopeptide
D. Moderate
35. What are obligate parasite?
A. Viruses
B. Bacteria
C. Virus
D. Ricketssia
36. What are the two life cycles of viruses?
A. Lytic and lysogenic
B. Litic and lisogenic
C. Lityc and lysogenic
D. Lysogenic and terminal
37. Which of the following is not part of a bacterium organelles?
A. Nucleus
B. Mitochondrion
C. Golgi apparatus
D. Endoplasmic reticulum
38. Which of this is not part of a viral particle?
A. Mitochondria
B. Nucleic acid
C. Capsids
D. Spikes
39. What is use as a mordant in gram staining procedure?
A. Iodine
B. Methyl orange
C. Alcohol
D. Safrannin
40. What class of microorganism predominates human skin?
A. Fungus
B. Bacterium
C. Viruses
D. Amoeba
41. What is the precursor cell of all the immune cells?
A. HSC
B. CLP
C. CMP
D. CMEP
42. What group of microorganism is referred to as Lactose fermenter?
A. Bacteria
B. Coliforms
C. Fungi
D. Archae
43. What is the medium that provide all the essential nutrient for microbial growth called?
A. Broth
B. Culture media
C. Agar
D. Food
44. What is the name given to a liquid medium?
A. Water
B. Broth
C. Watery medium
D. Liquefied medium
45. What is used as decolorizing agent in gram staining?
A. Lugol
B. Acetone water
C. Water
D. Iodine
46. What is another name for pure culture?
A. Normal culture
B. Axenic culture
C. Arsenic culture
D. Best culture
47. Which of the following infection is not caused by a bacterium?
A. Salmonellosis
B. Ringworm
C. Syphilis
D. Cholera
48. The separation of a strain from a natural, mixed population of living microbes as
present in the environment is
A. Isolation
B. Innoculation
C. Incubation
D. Differentiation.
49. The microbiological specimen coming from the normal flora of an organism is
A. Endogenous
B. Exogenous
C. Hydrogenous
D. Homogenous
50. Viral culture sample are kept/preserved in ______________ while transporting from
site of collection to the virology laboratory
A. Ice-pack
B. Sample Bottle
C. EDTA Bottle
D. Cooler
51. One of the following must be processed within ONE hour of its collection
A. Stool
B. Urine
C. Soil
D. Sperm
52. The concept of serial dilution while preparing innoculum is
A. To reduce the microbial load
B. To increase microbial load
C. To eliminate the bacterial cells from the sample
D. To attain premium growth.
53. One of the following is not part of the several ways to prepare pure culture
A. the incubation method
B. the spread plate method
C. the streak plate method
D. the pour plate method sometimes.
54. The major group of microorganism that we test for in food, water and milk are the
A. Enterobacterioceae
B. Methanogenes
C. Salmonella
D. Yersinia
55. The group of Gram (-ve) bacteria that can ferment lactose with a production of gas are
A. Coliform
B. Enterobacter
C. Testing organism
D. Yeast.
56. The color of gram negative bacteria under microscopy is
A. Blue
B. Pink
C. Yellow
D. Green.
57. One of the major difference between the G+ and G- bacteria is
A. the cell membrane
B. cell wall
C. plasmid
D. Plasmolemma
58. The cellwall of gram positive and gram negative bacteria is made up of
A. Phospholipid
B. Murein
C. Protein
D. Carbohydrate
59. Peptidoglycan is composed of
A. N-acetyl muramic acid
B. A&C
C. N-acetyl glucosamine
D. Murein
60. Mould and yeast are example of
A. Bacteria
B. Fungi
C. Algae
D. Virus
61. One of the following is NOT a type of Immunoglobulins

A. Ig A
B. IgG
C. IgM
D. IgI
62. All antigen are immunogen
A. True
B. False
63. The process of production of cells of immune system in the bone marrow is called
A. Erythropoiesis
B. Leukopoiesis
C. Immunopoiesis
D. Hematopoiesis.
64. Which of the following is a content of the granules?
A. Hcl
B. Histamine
C. Sulfuric acid
D. Water
65. What is the name of the instrument used to view microbes?
A. Microbe viewer
B. Photoscope
C. Microscope
D. Test tube
67. What are the major bacteria found in food, water and milk?
A. The coliforms
B. The fungus
C. Aspergillus
D. Yeast
68. What immune cells does the HIV targets?
A. WBC
B. CD4
C.CD8
D. CD17
69. The chronic immune system disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus is

A. HIV

B. Anaphylaxis
C. Migraine
D. AIDS.
70. Antibodies are otherwise known as

A. Immunogen
B. Antigen
C. Lymphocytes
D. Immunoglobulins
ANSWER: D
71. What is an infectious particle that become pathogenic when it gains entry into a cellular
host?
A. Virus
B. Pathogen
C. Fungus
D. Bacteria
ANSWER: A
72. Which of the following has a cellulose cell wall?
A. Bacteria
B. Archae
C. Fungi
D. Actinomycetes
ANSWER: C
73. Which among the following is a normal flora?
A. E. coli
B. C. tetani
C. C. botulinum
D. W. bancrofti
ANSWER: A
74. One of the following is not among the common symptoms of hepatitis virus?
A. Fatigue
B. Dark Urine
C. Pale Stool
D. Malaria
ANSWER: D
75. Which of the following lymphocyte is not an APC?
A. Macrophage
B. Neutrophil
C. Dendritic Cell
D. B- Cells
ANSWER: D

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