Exam 1

Question 0

Marine and freshwater microbes form the basis of what?

Answer 0

Food chain in oceans, lakes, and rivers

Question 1

Microbes include what categories?

Answer 1

Bacteria
Fungi (yeast & molds)
Protozoa 
Algae
Viruses
Noncellular entities

Question 2

Humans need microbes in their intestines for what?

Answer 2

Digestion

Synthesis of vitamins ( b and k)

Question 3

What is nomenclature?

Answer 3

System for naming organisms

Question 4

What are the two terms used for nomenclature and their properties?

Answer 4

First word: genus (always caped)

Second : specific epithet (species name) (not capped)

Question 5

Prokaryotes include what and why?

*****

Answer 5

Bacteria (no membrane around genetic material)

Archaea (

Question 6

What is binary fission?

Answer 6

Process of reproducing by dividing into two equal cells

Question 7

What are the 3 subspecies of Archaea and their properties?

Answer 7

1. Methanogens (produce methane)
2. Extreme halophiles (salty environment)
3. Extreme thermophiles (live in hot sulfurous water)

Question 8

Archaea is not know to cause..?

Answer 8

Disease in humans

Question 9

What are the common shapes of bacteria?

Answer 9

1. Bacillus (rodlike)
2. Coccus (spherical or oval)
3. Spiral (corkscrew)

Question 10

Describe eukaryotes

Answer 10

Nucleus surrounded by protective envelope containing DNA

Question 11

What is mycelia?

Answer 11

Visible masses of molds

Question 12

How does fungi reproduce?

Answer 12

Sexually or asexually

Question 13

How do bacteria reproduce?

Answer 13

Binary fission

Question 14

Protozoa are what type of microbe?

Answer 14

Unicellular eukaryotic

Question 15

How do Protozoa move?

Answer 15

Pseudopods, flagella, and cilia

Question 16

How do Protozoa reproduce?

Answer 16

Sexually or asexually

Question 17

What type of microbe is algae?

What shape?

What cellular?

Answer 17

Photosynthetic eukaryotes

Wide variety of shapes

Unicellular

Question 18

How does algae reproduce

Answer 18

Sexually and asexually

Question 19

What is the cell wall of algae consist of?

Answer 19

A carbohydrate called cellulose

Question 20

What cellular is a virus?

Answer 20

acellular (not cellular)

Question 21

What cellular is fungi

Answer 21

Can be both unicellular or multicellular

Question 22

A virus has what as it’s core?

Answer 22

A core only made up of one type of nuclei acid either DNA or RNA

Question 23

What surrounds the nucleic acid in a virus?

Answer 23

protein which is sometimes encased by a lipid membrane

Question 24

Animal parasites are what cellular?

Answer 24

Multicellular

Question 25

Animal parasites are what kind of microbe?

Answer 25

Eukaryotes

Question 26

What are the two major groups of animal parasites?

Answer 26

Flat worm | Round worm

Question 27

What are both groups of the animal parasite collectively called?

Answer 27

Helminths

Question 28

taxonomy

Answer 28

Categorizing organisms

Question 29

Systematic or phylogeny

Answer 29

Study of the evolutionary history of organisms

Question 30

The 3 call types are based on what?

Answer 30

Ribosomes

Question 31

What are the three domains?

Answer 31

Bacteria Archaea Ekarya

Question 32

According to the endosymbiotic theory which cell type came first?

Answer 32

Prokaryotic

Question 33

Animals, Plants, And fungi are all part of what domain?

Answer 33

Eukarya

Question 34

What kind of cells are in the archaea domain?

Answer 34

Pro cells that lack peptidoglycan Methanogens Extreme halophiles Hyperthermophiles

Question 35

A group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves

Answer 35

Species

Question 36

A group of similar families

Answer 36

Order

Question 37

Related genera

Answer 37

Family

Question 38

Group of similar orders

Answer 38

Class

Question 39

Related classes

Answer 39

Phylum

Question 40

All phyla that are related

Answer 40

Kingdom

Question 41

All related kingdoms

Answer 41

Domain

Question 42

Morphological characteristics means what

Answer 42

Structural characteristics

Question 43

Serology

Answer 43

Studies serum and immune responses that are evident in the serum

Question 44

Slide agglutination test

Answer 44

Samples of an unknown bacterium are placed on a slide with a known antiserum then identification can be made to the bacteria that clumps