Chapter 1 - introduction

Question 1

Which of the following food is NOT made by fermentation?
a. beer
b. bread
c. cheese
d. orange juice

Answer 1

d. orange juice

Question 2

Who is considered the “father of western medicine?”
a. Marcus Terentius Varro
b. Thucydides
c. Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
d. Hippocrates

Answer 2

d. Hippocrates

Question 3

Who was the first to observe “animalcules” under the microscope?
a. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

b. Ötzi the Iceman

c. Marcus Terentius Varro

d. Robert Koch

Answer 3

a. Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

Question 4

Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see?
a. Thucydides

b. Marcus Terentius Varro

c. Hippocrates

d. Louis Pasteur

Answer 4

b. Marcus Terentius Varro

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus’s taxonomy?
a. animal

b. mineral

c. protist

d. plant

Answer 5

c. protist

Question 6

Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?

a. Homo Sapiens

b. homo sapiens

c. Homo sapiens

d. Homo Sapiens

Answer 6

c. Homo sapiens

Question 7

Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?

a. Carolus Linnaeus

b. Carl Woese

c. Robert Whittaker

d. Ernst Haeckel

Answer 7

d. Ernst Haeckel

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree?

a. Plantae

b. Bacteria

c. Archaea

d. Eukarya

Answer 8

a. Plantae

Question 9

Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?

a. Systema Naturae

b. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology

c. Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree

d. Haeckel’s General Morphology of Organisms

Answer 9

b. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology

Question 10

______________ are organisms without membrane-bound nuclei.

Answer 10

Prokaryotes

Question 11

______________ are microorganisms that are not included in phylogenetic trees because they are acellular.

Answer 11

Viruses

Question 12

Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?

a. yeast

b. virus

c. helminth

d. alga

Answer 12

d. alga

Question 13

Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?

a. helminth

b. protozoan

c. cyanobacterium

d. mold

Answer 13

c. cyanobacterium

Question 14

Which of the following is acellular?

a. virus

b. bacterium

c. fungus

d. protozoan

Answer 14

a. virus

Question 15

Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?

a. bacterium

b. protozoan

c. alga

d. yeast

Answer 15

d. yeast

Question 16

Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?

a. bacteriology

b. botany

c. clinical microbiology

d. virology

Answer 16

b. botany

Question 17

The cells of prokaryotic organisms lack a ______________.

Answer 17

nucleus or cellular nucleus

Question 18

process by which microbes turn grape juice into wine

Answer 18

fermentation

Question 19

_____ are organisms without membrane-bond nuclei.

Answer 19

prokaryotes

Question 20

_______ are microorganisms that are not included in phylogenetic trees because they are acellular

Answer 20

Viruses

Question 21

what types of microorganisms are photosynthetic

Answer 21

alga

Question 22

which is a prokaryotic microorganism
a. helminth
b. protozoan
c. cyanobacterium
d. mold

Answer 22

c. cyanobacterium

Question 23

which of the following is acellular?
a. virus
b. bacterium
c. fungus
d. protozoan

Answer 23

a. virus

Question 24

which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
a. bacterium
b. protozoan
c. alga
d. yeast

Answer 24

d. yeast

Question 25

which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology a. bacteriology b. botany c. click microbiology d. virology

Answer 25

b. botany

Question 26

calls of prokaryotic organisms lack a _____

Answer 26

nucleus

Question 27

animal like protists

Answer 27

protozoans

Question 28

plant like protists

Answer 28

algae

Question 29

difference between bacteria and archaea?

Answer 29

Their cell walls Bacteria - peptidoglycan Archala- psudomurein

Question 30

distinct feature of each kingdom based on cell wall?

Answer 30

Plants - Cellulose cell wall Animals - no cell wall Fungi - chitin protists -

Question 31

prokaryotes characteristics

Answer 31

no nucleus bacteria archaea unicellular DNA in nuclei

Question 32

4 kingdoms of eukaryotes

Answer 32

protists, fungi, plants, animals

Question 33

Carolus Linnaeus kingdoms

Answer 33

animal, plant, mineral

Question 34

3 domains

Answer 34

archaea, bacteria, eukarya

Question 35

binomial nomenclature oder: ______ then ______

Answer 35

genus, species

Question 36

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 36

Father of binomial nomenclature 3 kingdoms

Question 37

MICROINICINERATORS

Answer 37

used in lab

Question 38

Robert Koch

Answer 38

connection between single microbes discovered bacteria antrax, cholera, tuberculosis

Question 39

Louis Pasteur

Answer 39

father of microbiology fermentation pasteurization vaccinations (rabies)

Question 40

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 40

First to observe microorganisms "wee little beasties"

Question 41

Marcus Terentius Varro

Answer 41

disease came from minute creatures

Question 42

Thucydides

Answer 42

Athenian plague once infected you can't get infected again

Question 43

Hippocrates

Answer 43

"father to western medicine" disease caused by supernatural forces