MCQ Bank
Select which are the primary components of LB broth?
- A) Maltose, tryptone, sodium chloride
- B) Sucrose, agar, beef extract
- C) Glucose, yeast extract, peptone
- D) Fructose, casein, potassium phosphate
Among the following methods, which technique is best suited for sterilizing oils, powders, and items intolerant to high temperatures?
- A) Ethylene oxide sterilization
- B) Autoclaving
- C) Dry heat sterilization
- D) Filtration
Name the part of microscope you have used to see magnified image during your microscope practical?
- A) Stage controls
- B) Condenser
- C) Objective lens
- D) Eyepiece lens
An instrument that is used as sterilizer to sterilize lab equipment at 121 Celsius using steam under pressure?
- A) Hot Air Oven
- B) Water Bath
- C) Autoclave
- D) Incubator
Which of the following is not a component of Luria broth (LB) nutrient-rich media?
- A) NaCl
- B) Tryptone
- C) Yeast Extract
- D) Agar
From the following given list, choose the correct order in which light passes through compound microscope.
- A) Mirror ➞ slide ➞ objective lens ➞ eyepiece
- B) Slide ➞ eyepiece ➞ objective lens ➞ mirror
- C) Mirror ➞ eyepiece ➞ objective lens ➞ slide
- D) Mirror ➞ objective lens ➞ eyepiece ➞ slide
What is the purpose of Agar in the solid media?
- A) To provide colour
- B) To enhace bacterial motility
- C) To provide nutrients
- D) Act as a solidifying agent
If the eyepiece of a microscope magnifies the image by 10, and the objective lens magnifies by 40, then what is the total magnification of the microscope?
- A) 40
- B) 400
- C) 10
- D) 100
Which sterilization method is more effective against bacterial endospores?
- A) Filtration
- B) Dry heat sterilization
- C) UV irradiation
- D) Autoclaving
What is bacterial innoculum?
- A) A substance that kills bacteria
- B) A method to detect bacterial infections
- C) Bacterial growth used to start a new culture
- D) The process of sterilizing bacterial cultures
Which factor is most critical in selecting a suitable liquid medium for bacterial growth?
- A) Nutrient components
- B) Its color
- C) Sterilization method
- D) Its texture
Select parts of a microscope that are involved to give a magnified view of a cell?
- A) Objective lens and eye piece
- B) Objective lens and condenser
- C) Objective lens and Nose piece
- D) Eyepiece and focus knob
Marburg Virus is life threatening agent. Choose a biosafety level that is more suitable to deal it with them?
- A) BSL-3
- B) BSL-4
- C) BSL-2
- D) BSL-1
Which of the following type of radiations are categorized as ionizing radiations?
- A) Radiofrequency (RF) radiation
- B) Gamma radiations
- C) Microwave
- D) Ultraviolet
Indicate instrument that is used to separate components of a microbial sample based on density?
- A) Hot Air Oven
- B) Autoclave
- C) Centrifuge
- D) Water Bath
Inoculating loop is used to transfer bacterial colony and sterilized repeatedly. Select a method which was used by you during lab for sterilization of Inoculating loop.
- A) Incineration
- B) Steam
- C) Flaming
- D) Hot air oven
Media with custard like consistency is named as?
- A) MacCkonkey agar
- B) Broth
- C) Semi-solid media
- D) Solid media
Test tube containing solidified culture medium at a slope for preparing cultures and preservation of pure cultures in the lab.Identify the type of prepared test tube is called as
- A) Agar Stab
- B) Agar Plate
- C) Agar Plate
- D) Agar Slant
Surgical scissors, scalpels and needles are preferentially sterilized using which of the following sterilization technique?
- A) Boiling
- B) Incineration
- C) Radiation
- D) Pasteurization
Select a sterilization technique that employs high-energy rays to eradicate microorganisms?
- A) Autoclaving
- B) Ionizing radiation
- C) Pasteurization
- D) Filtration