Microbiology MCQs (Quiz 19) Posted on June 11, 2026Author agropublishers 0 1. __________________ is the vector of malaria Female Housefly Female Anopheles mosquito Male Sandfly Male Anopheles mosquito 2. AIDS is abbreviation of ____________________ Acquired Infectious Disease Syndrome Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome Acute Immune Deficiency Syndrome 3. The primary target organ of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is _____________ Heart Lung Kidney Liver 4. The scientist who proposed that the infectious agent causing tobacco mosaic disease could pass through bacterial filters was _____________ Robert Koch Dmitri Ivanovsky Edward Jenner Louis Pasteur 5. __________________ are dormant and highly resistant bacterial structures Capsules Flagella Fimbriae Endospores 6. ____________ are the fungal root-like structures that anchor the organism Basidia Asci Rhizoids Conidia 7. ____________ virus is a major cause of liver cirrhosis HCV HIV Influenza virus Rabies virus 8. The genome of HIV consists of _______________________ Double-stranded DNA Two copies of single-stranded RNA Double-stranded RNA Single-stranded DNA 9. Malaria is caused by a microorganism _____________________ Virus Fungus Bacterium Plasmodium 10. The thread-like filaments of fungi are called ______________ Hyphae Flagella Capsomeres Pili Loading … Question 1 of 10
