Recent Discoveries in Microbiology (GATE - XL)
Description: Microbiology | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
Created by: Girish Goud | |
Tags: Discovery Microbiology Koch Pasteur Campbell GATE - XL Discovery of Microbial World |
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?
A rod-shaped bacteria isolated from drinking water systems in 2016 belonged to the genus
Methylopila henanensis is a gram negative bacterium isolated from tribenuron methyl-contaminated wheat soil in 2015. As per flagellar arrangement it is
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?
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?
Burkholderia insulsa was isolated from the Ambitle Island on Papua New Guinea in January 2015. It exhibits extraordinary tolerance towards
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?
Which bacteria was 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?
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?
In 2015, W. C. Campbell and Saroshi Omura received the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine. Which of the following contributions did they make?
In 2014, discovery of which bacteria led to the discovery of a novel antibiotic called Teixobactin that was active against Gram positive bacteria?
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
Which of the following organisms were isolated from Mosses in 2015?
a. Chryseobacterium takakiae b. Chryseobacterium polytrichastri c. Chryseobacterium arachidiradicis d. Chryseobacterium shandongense
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|