Basics of Microbiology and Chapters One and Two Quiz Questions

Question 1

Match the types of microbes with the most appropriate description.
(Bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, prions, fungi, viruses, helminths

Answer 1

Question 2

True or False, microbes are usually measured in millimeters.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or False, microbes are not normally found in spring water.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or False, most bacteria cause disease.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Which of the following is a correctly written scientific name to describe a single type of microbe?

Answer 5

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a way that at least some microbes impact human life?

Answer 6

All of the above are ways microbes impact life.

Question 7

True or False, there are more microbial cells on/in a person than human cells that compose that person.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Staphylococcus epidermidis, living on human skin, is provided a place to live and nutrients. It does not harm people but doesn’t specifically help them either. This is an example of which type of relationship?

(Mutualism, parasitism, competition, commensalism)

Answer 8

Commensalism

Question 9

Which of the following helps support the growth of a healthy microbiome by feeding microbes, already present, nutrients that encourage their growth?
Dysbiosis, pathogenesis, asepsis, prebiotics, probiotics

Answer 9

Prebiotics

Question 10

Match the scientist to their discovery.
Hooke, Koche, Jenner, Lister, van Leeuwenhoek, Ehrlich, Pasteur

Answer 10

Question 11

Which of the following is TRUE?

Answer 11

A high surface area to volume ratio allows cells to maximize chemical exchange

Question 12

Based on scientific evidence, how long have microbes been estimated to be on Earth?

Answer 12

Four billion years

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the three domains of life?
Eukarya, Bacteria, Viruses, Archaea

Answer 13

Viruses

Question 14

You are examining bacteria using a compound light microscope in the microbiology lab, you observe chains of rods. How should you describe the arrangement and shape of these cells?

Answer 14

Streptobacilli