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