Lecture Quiz 1 Flashcards
Who is considered the Father of Western Medicine?
A. Hippocrates
B. Marcus Terentius Varo
C. Thucydides
D. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
A. Hippocrates
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see?
A. Thucydides
B. Marcus Terentius Varro
C. Louis Pasteur
D. Hippocrates
B. Marcus Terenrius Varo
Disease-causing microorganisms are called
A. fermenters
B. eukaryotes
C. pathogens
D. prokaryotes
E. decomposers
C. Pathogens
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
A. Homo Sapiens
B. Homo sapiens
C. Homo sapiens
D. homo sapiens
C. Homo sapiens
Which of the following is a standard resource for identifying bacteria?
A. Systema Naturae
B. Haeckel’s General Morphology of Organisms
C. Woese and Fox’s Phylogenetic Tree
D. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
D. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
The microorganisms that do not have a nucleus in their cells are called
A. pathogens
B. prokaryotes
C. eukaryotes
D. fermenters
E. decomposers
B. prokaryotes
Where are you most likely to find bacteria belonging to the domain Archaea?
A. a beer production facility
B. a human’s large intestine
C. a pond
D. a sewage treatment plant
E. in a hot spring
E. in a hot spring
Which of the following is a unique characteristic of viruses that distinguishes them from the other major groups of microorganisms?
A. viruses lack cell structures
B. viruses contain genetic material
C. viruses cause human disease
D. viruses are composed of cells that lack nuclei
E. viruses cannot be seen without an electron microscope
A. viruses lack cell structure
The Dutch merhcant who made and used quality magnifing lenses to see and record microorganisms was
A. Robert Koch
B. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
C. Joseph Lister
D. Louis Pasteur
E. Francesco Redi
B. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Which of the following is a prokaryotic organsim?
A. cyanobacterium
B. mold
C. protozoan
D. helminth
A. cyanobacterium
the process by which yeast turns sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide is called
fermentation
in binomial nomenclature, an organism’s scientific name includes its ___ and species
genus
multicellular parasitic worms studied by microbiologists are called
helminths
name a type of eukaryotic microorganism that is photosynthetic
algae
who is known as the father of scientific history
Thucydides
