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Recent Discoveries in Microbiology (GATE - XL)

Description: Microbiology
Number of Questions: 15
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In 2015, which virus was discovered by Amit Kapoor et al. in old samples of the blood that was found to reduce the pathogenesis of HIV?

  1. Crassphage virus

  2. Human pegivirus

  3. Human hepegivirus 1

  4. Torque teno mini virus (TTMV)


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Human hepegivirus 1 was discovered by Amit Kapoor, a virologist at Columbia University, in old blood samples. Later it was shown that HIV-infected people benefit from co-infection with hepegivirus, it reduces the pathogenesis of HIV.

A rod-shaped bacteria isolated from drinking water systems in 2016 belonged to the genus

  1. Ideonella

  2. Psychroflexus

  3. Serratia

  4. Bacillus


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The rod-shaped bacteria isolated from drinking water systems belonged to the genus Serratia. It was Serratia aquatilis.

Methylopila henanensis is a gram negative bacterium isolated from tribenuron methyl-contaminated wheat soil in 2015. As per flagellar arrangement it is

  1. lophotrichous

  2. peritrichous

  3. monotrichous

  4. atrichous


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Methylopila henanensis is a monotrichous bacteria. It has a single flagellum. It is capable of obtaining carbon and energy from methane.

In 2016, McLean and his colleagues discovered a new life form that was parasitic to other bacteria and linked it to human disease. From which sample this organism was discovered?

  1. Saliva

  2. Blood

  3. Semen

  4. Urine


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In 2016, McLean and his colleagues discovered a new life form from saliva and linked it to human disease. This parasite makes its host more harmful to humans.

Psychroflexus salis is a non-motile bacteria isolated from Lake Xiaochaidan in the Qinghai Province in China in 2016. Which type of bacteria it is?

  1. Gram negative anaerobic

  2. Gram negative aerobic

  3. Gram positive aerobic

  4. Gram positive anaerobic


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Psychroflexus salis is a gram negative, strictly aerobic and non-motile bacteria from the genus of Psychroflexus.

Burkholderia insulsa was isolated from the Ambitle Island on Papua New Guinea in January 2015. It exhibits extraordinary tolerance towards

  1. cadmium

  2. mercury

  3. arsenic

  4. lead


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Burkholderia insulsa isolated from the Ambitle Island on Papua New Guinea was arsenic tolerant.

Most of the Legionellas are pathogenic to amoeba. Which species of legionella was isolated from the biopurification systems of wood processing plants in 2015 that has no significant negative effect on growth or replication of the amoeba?

  1. Legionella pneumophila

  2. Legionella norrlandica

  3. Lactobacillus moravica

  4. Lactobacillus drancourtii


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Legionella norrlandica isolated in 2015 from the biopurification systems of wood processing plants that has no significant negative effect on the growth or replication of the amoeba.

Which bacteria was discovered in 2016 from the Jiangxi Province in China that has the ability to produce dimethyl cyanide?

  1. Massilia putida

  2. Ideonella sakaiensis

  3. Psychroflexus salis

  4. Serratia aquatilis


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Massilia putida discovered in 2016 from the Jiangxi Province in China that has the ability to produce dimethyl cyanide.

According to a study in 2014 by Borgdorff et al, which bacterial dominance in vaginal microbiota lowers the chance of HIV, HSV-2 or HPV infection?

  1. Lactobacillus salivarius

  2. Lactobacillus vaginalis

  3. Lactobacillus crispatus

  4. Lactobacillus coleohominis


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In 2014, it was found by Borgdorff et al. that lactobacillus crispatus is very good at trapping HIV, HSV or HPV particles and their dominance presents less chance of HIV, HSV or HPV infection.

Chryseobacterium arachidiradicis is a Gram-negative and rod-shaped bacteria isolated in Alabama, United States in 2015. What was the source used to isolate it?

  1. Moss polytrichastrum formosum

  2. Soil around peanut

  3. Deep sea sediments

  4. Maize field


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Chryseobacterium arachidiradicis is a Gram-negative and rod-shaped bacteria isolated from soil around peanut in Alabama, United States in 2015.

In 2015, W. C. Campbell and Saroshi Omura received the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine. Which of the following contributions did they make?

  1. Discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

  2. Novel therapy against Malaria

  3. Novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm

  4. Discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In 2015, W. C. Campbell and Saroshi Omura received the Nobel prize for novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm.

In 2014, discovery of which bacteria led to the discovery of a novel antibiotic called Teixobactin that was active against Gram positive bacteria?

  1. Elizabethkingia endophytica

  2. Eleftheria terrae

  3. Erythrobacter atlanticus

  4. Erythrobacter luteus


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In 2014, a novel antibiotic called Teixobactin was found in Eleftheria terrae. Teixobactin was the first new antibiotic discovered since the synthetic era of the 1980s, thus it was a major discovery.

Rhizobium bangladeshense was isolated from root nodules of the lentil lens culinaris in Khulna district, Bangladesh by M. Harun-or Rashid and others in 2015. This bacterium can grow in the presence of

  1. lincomycin

  2. troleandomycin

  3. nalidixic acid

  4. sodium butyrate


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Rhizobium bangladeshense can grow in the presence of lincomycin.

Which of the following organisms were isolated from Mosses in 2015?

a. Chryseobacterium takakiae b. Chryseobacterium polytrichastri c. Chryseobacterium arachidiradicis d. Chryseobacterium shandongense

  1. a,b,c and d

  2. a and b

  3. a and d

  4. a, c and d


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Bacteria a and b were isolated from moss in 2015. Chryseobacterium takakiae has been isolated from the moss takakia lepidozioides from the Gawalong glacier in Tibet in China and bacteria Chryseobacterium polytrichastri has been isolated from the moss polytrichastrum formosum from the Gawalong glacier from Tibet in China.

Following bacteria were discovered in 2016. Match them against the source from which they were isolated ||| |---|---| |Bacterium|Source| |1. Streptomyces alfalfae|a. Peat swamp forest| |2. Streptomyces actinomycinicus|b. Wolfram mine| |3. Psychroflexus planctonicus|c. Rhizophere soil| |4. Massilia putida|d. Lake Xiaochaidan|

  1. 1. Streptomyces alfalfae c. Rhizosphere soil
    2. Streptomyces actinomycinicus b. Wolfram mine
    3. Psychroflexus planctonicus a. Peat swamp forest
    4. Massilia putida d. Lake Xiaochaidan
  2. 1. Streptomyces alfalfae b. Wolfram mine
    2. Streptomyces actinomycinicus d. Lake Xiaochaidan
    3. Psychroflexus planctonicus c. Rhizosphere soil
    4. Massilia putida a. Peat swamp forest
  3. 1. Streptomyces alfalfae c. Rhizophere soil
    2. Streptomyces actinomycinicus a. Peat swamp forest
    3. Psychroflexus planctonicus d. Lake Xiaochaidan
    4. Massilia putida b. Wolfram mine
  4. 1. Streptomyces alfalfae d. Lake Xiachaidan
    2. Streptomyces actinomycinicus c. Rhizosphere soil
    3. Psychroflexus planctonicus a. Peat swamp forest
    4. Massilia putida b. Wolfram mine

Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct match Streptomyces alfalfae has been isolated from rhizosphere soil from an alfalfa field in Jingyang in China, Streptomyces actinomycinicus has been isolated from soil from a peat swamp forest in the Rayong Province in Thailand. Psychroflexus planctonicus has been isolated from the Lake Xiaochaidan in Qaidam Basin in the Qinghai Province in China. Massilia putida has been isolated from a wolfram mine in Dayu County in the Jiangxi Province in China.

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