VIRUSES lesson 3: History of discovery Quizellenjmchenry2021-10-01T23:31:57-04:00 Please sign up for the course before taking this quiz. What do you call something that transfers disease from one organism to another?1 virus vector vaccine virion Who was the first person to isolate viruses using a Chamberland filter?1 Dmitri Ivanovsky Edward Jenner Louis Pasteur Felix d"Herelle Who developed a vaccine for rabies?1 Edward Jenner Jonas Salk Louis Pasteur Lady Montagu Dmitri Ivanovsky The vaccinia virus is a very popular species for scientific research. From what original virus did it come?1 influenza adenovirus cowpox smallpox polio What technique did Rosalind Franklin use to help Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?1 electron microscope pictures filtration PCR hemagglutination x-ray crystallography Which type of virus will grow in eggs?1 bacteriophages HIV Pandora influenza Who made the classification system for viruses?1 David Baltimore Jonas Salk Louis Pasteur Martinus Beijerinck Francis Crick As far as we know, smallpox has been eliminated.1 True False Tobacco Mosaic Virus was the first virus to be imaged with an electron microscope.1 True False Jonas Salk made a vaccine for what viral disease?1 anthrax smallpox yellow fever influenza polio This tool provided the first step toward the discovery of viruses.1 filter test tube x-ray machine electron microscope 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 for years in a lab dish. It can survive very high temperatures. What does “in vitro” mean?1 in a glass lab dish able to reproduce in an injection needle in a cell living SARS. MERS and Covid-19 are all coronaviruses.1 True False 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 VIRUSES lesson 2: Size and prevalence VIRUSES lesson 4: Bacteriophages Back to: VIRUSES lesson 3: History of discovery