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