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1
Q

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

A

d. orange juice

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

A

d. Hippocrates

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3
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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

A

a. Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

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4
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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

A

b. Marcus Terentius Varro

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5
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Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus’s taxonomy?
a. animal

b. mineral

c. protist

d. plant

A

c. protist

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6
Q

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

a. Homo Sapiens

b. homo sapiens

c. Homo sapiens

d. Homo Sapiens

A

c. Homo sapiens

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7
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Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?

a. Carolus Linnaeus

b. Carl Woese

c. Robert Whittaker

d. Ernst Haeckel

A

d. Ernst Haeckel

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8
Q

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

a. Plantae

b. Bacteria

c. Archaea

d. Eukarya

A

a. Plantae

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9
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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

A

b. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology

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10
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______________ are organisms without membrane-bound nuclei.

A

Prokaryotes

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

A

Viruses

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12
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Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?

a. yeast

b. virus

c. helminth

d. alga

A

d. alga

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13
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Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?

a. helminth

b. protozoan

c. cyanobacterium

d. mold

A

c. cyanobacterium

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14
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Which of the following is acellular?

a. virus

b. bacterium

c. fungus

d. protozoan

A

a. virus

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15
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Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?

a. bacterium

b. protozoan

c. alga

d. yeast

A

d. yeast

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16
Q

Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?

a. bacteriology

b. botany

c. clinical microbiology

d. virology

A

b. botany

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17
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The cells of prokaryotic organisms lack a ______________.

A

nucleus or cellular nucleus

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18
Q

process by which microbes turn grape juice into wine

A

fermentation

19
Q

_____ are organisms without membrane-bond nuclei.

A

prokaryotes

20
Q

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

A

Viruses

21
Q

what types of microorganisms are photosynthetic

A

alga

22
Q

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

A

c. cyanobacterium

23
Q

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

A

a. virus

24
Q

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

A

d. yeast

25
Q

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

A

b. botany

26
Q

calls of prokaryotic organisms lack a _____

A

nucleus

27
Q

animal like protists

A

protozoans

28
Q

plant like protists

A

algae

29
Q

difference between bacteria and archaea?

A

Their cell walls
Bacteria - peptidoglycan
Archala- psudomurein

30
Q

distinct feature of each kingdom based on cell wall?

A

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

31
Q

prokaryotes characteristics

A

no nucleus
bacteria archaea
unicellular
DNA in nuclei

32
Q

4 kingdoms of eukaryotes

A

protists, fungi, plants, animals

33
Q

Carolus Linnaeus kingdoms

A

animal, plant, mineral

34
Q

3 domains

A

archaea, bacteria, eukarya

35
Q

binomial nomenclature oder: ______ then ______

A

genus, species

36
Q

Carolus Linnaeus

A

Father of binomial nomenclature
3 kingdoms

37
Q

MICROINICINERATORS

A

used in lab

38
Q

Robert Koch

A

connection between single microbes
discovered bacteria
antrax, cholera, tuberculosis

39
Q

Louis Pasteur

A

father of microbiology
fermentation
pasteurization
vaccinations (rabies)

40
Q

Leeuwenhoek

A

First to observe microorganisms
“wee little beasties”

41
Q

Marcus Terentius Varro

A

disease came from minute creatures

42
Q

Thucydides

A

Athenian plague
once infected you can’t get infected again

43
Q

Hippocrates

A

“father to western medicine”
disease caused by supernatural forces

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