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