BIOD171 / BIOD 171 Module 6 (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Essential Microbiology with Lab | Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct - Portage Learning
Question:
While traveling abroad, should you be worried about coming into contact with either the Variola major or Variola minor viruses?
Answer:
No, both are variants of smallpox that has been eradicated.
Question:
What small (~30nm) single-stranded, non-enveloped RNA virus causes temporary or permanent paralysis by infiltrating (infecting) motor neurons within the spinal cord, brain stem or motor cortex?
Answer:
Polio
- / 3
Question:
Described the main underlining differences between the Salk and Sabin polio vaccine
Answer:
Salk: inactivated virus and injected vaccine.
Sabin: live attenuated form of virus and oral vaccine.
Question:
Which subtype of Influenza is the most virulent?
Answer:
Influenza A
Question:
A drug company is trying to develop a new drug that will inhibit the release of newly produced viral particles. Would the drug company target hemagglutin proteins or neuraminidase proteins? Why?
Answer:
Neuraminidase because it involves the budding and release of viral particles.
- / 3
Question:
Explain why the flu shot given each year may not be 100% effective at preventing the flu?
Answer:
Because you may become exposed to a viral strain that was not included in the vaccine.
Question:
True or False: The viral capsid of HIV is dumbbell shaped and contains ~2,000
copies of the viral protein p24
Answer:
False (cone shaped)
Question:
True or False: The viral capsid of HIV is cone shaped and contains ~2,000
copies of the viral protein p24
Answer:
true
- / 3