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