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