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