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