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