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Which protozoan parasite causes malaria and is responsible for the disease’s most severe cases?

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Plasmodium falciparum

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Which bacterium was used to discover streptomycin, the first effective antibiotic against tuberculosis?

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Streptomyces griseus

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Which microorganism ferments sugars to make bread rise and is also used in brewing?

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Which bacterium is famous for surviving doses of radiation that would kill most other organisms?

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Deinococcus radiodurans

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Which bacterium is associated with stomach ulcers and was identified by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren?

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Helicobacter pylori

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Which bacterium is the usual laboratory model for studying bacterial genetics and molecular biology?

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Escherichia coli

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Which bacterium causes Legionnaires’ disease and grows inside amoebae in natural water systems?

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Legionella pneumophila

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Which bacterium was the first genetically engineered organism, after Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen’s 1973 experiment?

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Escherichia coli

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Which bacterium causes cholera, the waterborne disease first linked to contaminated water by John Snow?

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Vibrio cholerae

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Which bacterium was the first organism whose complete genome was published, in 1995?

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Haemophilus influenzae

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What is the largest known bacterium by cell volume, discovered in a Caribbean mangrove in 2022?

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Thiomargarita magnifica

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Which bacterium causes tuberculosis, the infectious disease described by Robert Koch in 1882?

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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