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