Microbiology
Microbiology
2016
Part A
1
What do you mean by conjugation?
What do you mean by drug toxicity?
Set Name different types of staining method.
What is biogas?
(e) What is fermenter?
Write down the name of two microbial pesticides.
Define LD50
What is bacteriophage?
Define chemotherapeutic agents
What is drug resistance?
What are pathogenicity?
Define broad spectrum antibiotics with example
Part B
2. Define pathogenicity. Discuss mechanism of pathogenesis following
exposure to a pathogen.
3.(a) Discuss the different stages of HIV infection.
(b) What is cytopathic effect of virus.
4. What do you mean by negative staining? How will you stain a
capsule?
5. Write down the process of insulin production from a microorganism.
6.(a) Classify bacteria depending on its shape and size.
(b) Compair between pure culture and mixed culture
7. (a) What do you mean by biomass and biofilms?
(b) Define bioconversion and list its advantages
8. (a) Define the term cheese.
(b) How is milk prepared for curdling?
9. Write down the symbiosis process of agrobacterium.
Part C
10. (a) Describe Koch's Postulates in determining the causative agent of
bacterial disease. Write few exception to Koch's Postulate.
(b) What is Endotoxin? Write the mechanism enterotoxin causes
diarrhoea.
11. (a) Write the structural composition of peptidoglycan.
(b) Discuss the method for viable cell count of bacteria.
(c) Classify bacteria on the basis of O₂ requirement with specific
examples
12. (a) What is differential staining? Differentiate between gram (+ve)
and gram (-ve) bacteria.
(b) Discuss the principle and use of electron microscope. Write the
application of fluorescence microscope
(c) Fluorescence microscope
13. (a) Draw a typical bacterial cell and label it.
(b) Describe the structural composition and characteristics of bacterial
cell wall.
(c) Classify microbes on the basis of preferred temperature range
14. (a) Describe the physical and chemical structure of "Herpes Simplex
Virus".
(b) How nodules are formed in plant?
17. (a) Describe the life cycle of bacteriophage T4.
(b) What do you mean by temperate bacteriophage? Describe the
significance of lysogenic cycle.
2017
Part A
1
(a) Give examples of a gram positive and a gram
negative bacteria.
(b) What is antibiotic?
(c) What is viroids?
(d) What do you mean by "Minimum Inhibitory
Concentration"?
(e) What is bioremediation?
(f) Name different types of microscopes.
(g) What do you mean by "Lysogeny phage" of virus?
( h) What is bacterial chemotaxis
(i) What is a selective media?
(j) Mention two types of microbial food spoilage and
name the organisms responsible in each instances.
(k) What is toxoid?
(l) What is phagocytosis?
Part B
2.Give an idea about bacterial cell structure.
3. How to perform the acid fast staining and for which
purpose this staining is used?
4. Discuss the role of temperature and PH on microbial
growth.
5. Show with a diagram the entrance of a pathogen into a
host.
6. Define the following term: (i) Exotoxin; (ii) Endotoxin;
(iii) Enterotoxin; (iv) Neurotoxin.
7. Discuss on the "Koch's postulate" theory.
8. Give the properties of a phase-infected bacterial
culture.
9. What is meant by biogenesis and abiogenesis?
Part C
10. (a) How microbes can be used in biogas production?
(b) Give an idea about microbial pesticide.
(c) What is Bt toxin?
11. (a) Describe the isolation process of a pure culture
from natural source with example.
(b) Differentiate between virus and bacteria
12.(a) Give five examples of industrially important
microbes with their applications.
(b) Classify different types of bacterial pathogens.
13. (a) Discuss the principle and use of: (i) Light
microscope; (ii) Fluorescence microscope.
(b) What is the role of "Flemming" in the field of
Microbiology?
14. (a) To minimize "Drug resistance" what steps can be
taken?
(b) What is the function of an antibiotic? How they are
synthesized?
(c) What are the causes of "Drug toxicity"?
15 (a) Compare between fermentation and
pasteurization.
(b) Discuss the steps in the production of cheese.
(c) Define the term "Symbiosis”
16. (a) Describe the physical and chemical structure of "Herpes
Simplex Virus
(b) How nodules are formed in plant?
17. (a) Describe the life cycle of bacteriophage T4.
(b) What do you mean by temperate bacteriophage? Describe the
significance of lysogenic cycle.
2018
Part A
1