VIRUSES lesson 3: History of discovery Quizellenj2021-10-01T23:31:57-04:00 Please sign up for the course before taking this quiz. 1. Tobacco Mosaic Virus was the first virus to be imaged with an electron microscope.1 True False 2. Who made the classification system for viruses?1 David Baltimore Martinus Beijerinck Jonas Salk Francis Crick Louis Pasteur 3. What does “in vitro” mean?1 in a cell able to reproduce living in an injection needle in a glass lab dish 4. SARS. MERS and Covid-19 are all coronaviruses.1 True False 5. PCR uses an enzyme called Taq polymerase. What is its unusal capability?1 It easy to extract. It can be used by viruses. It can survive for years in a lab dish. It can survive very high temperatures. It can split DNA. 6. What technique did Rosalind Franklin use to help Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?1 x-ray crystallography PCR electron microscope pictures hemagglutination filtration 7. For centuries, people had been using this procedure to prevent smallpox. Healthy people were exposed to small amounts of pus or scabs from someone with smallpox.1 immunization viration variolation vaccination 8. Who developed a vaccine for rabies?1 Jonas Salk Lady Montagu Louis Pasteur Edward Jenner Dmitri Ivanovsky 9. What do you call something that transfers disease from one organism to another?1 vector vaccine virion virus 10. The vaccinia virus is a very popular species for scientific research. From what original virus did it come?1 influenza adenovirus polio cowpox smallpox 11. This tool provided the first step toward the discovery of viruses.1 electron microscope filter x-ray machine test tube 12. Jonas Salk made a vaccine for what viral disease?1 influenza smallpox polio yellow fever anthrax 13. Who was the first person to isolate viruses using a Chamberland filter?1 Louis Pasteur Edward Jenner Dmitri Ivanovsky Felix d"Herelle 14. Which type of virus will grow in eggs?1 influenza Pandora bacteriophages HIV 15. As far as we know, smallpox has been eliminated.1 True False VIRUSES lesson 2: Size and prevalence VIRUSES lesson 4: Bacteriophages Back to: VIRUSES lesson 3: History of discovery