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