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MicBo Ch 1 Flashcards

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MicBo 1

In the latter part of the twentieth century, scientists became increasingly concerned about the threat of infectious diseases. Which of the following is not a reason why the incidence of infectious diseases has risen?

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Ineffective diagnoses of diseases

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What is the branch of microbiology that involves DNA manipulation in order to create new products and genetically modified organisms?

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Genetic engineering

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When looking for life on other planets, scientists first look for signs of microbial inhabitation. Which of the following is not a reason why?

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Microbes prevent the recycling of elements

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The majority of the oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere is derived from processes carried out by what group of microorganisms?

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Photosynthetic organisms

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In the process of bioremediation, biological agents perform what function?

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Degrade environmental pollutants

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What is the most effective method for preventing the acquisition of malaria worldwide?

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Sleep under a bed net

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Many non-infectious diseases have been shown to be associated with chronic infections with certain microorganisms. Which of the following is one of these diseases?

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Coronary artery disease

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Which of the following is not classified as an emerging disease?

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polio

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Which of the following statements is true of the prokaryotes?

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They do not contain a nucleus

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Which of the following statements does not describe viruses?

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They are more complex than prokaryotes and eukaryotes

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How do the majority of microorganisms exist in nature?

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As free-living and harmless organisms

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Who is known as the “Father of Bacteriology and Protozoology?”

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Early scientists explained natural phenomena using several methods. Which of the following is not one of the methods they used?

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Scientific method

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What is the primary aim of the scientific method?

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To formulate a hypothesis

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Proponents of spontaneous generation believed what?

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The theory of abiogenesis

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Whose experiments finally discounted the theory of abiogenesis?

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Louis Pasteur

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Which of the following statements defines a theory?

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A collection of statements, propositions, or concepts that explains or accounts for a natural event

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Joseph Lister’s concept of asepsis in the medical setting consisted primarily of what technique?

A

Handwashing

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Which of the following is the smallest in size?

A

Poliovirus

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Robert Koch used what microorganism (and disease it causes) to formulate Koch’s postulates?

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Bacillus anthracis/Anthrax

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What is the smallest and most specific of the levels of classification?

A

Species

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Which of the following is correct?

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Vibrio cholera

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What term refers to the degree of evolutionary relatedness between living organisms?

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Phylogeny

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Which of the following statements regarding evolution is incorrect?

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Changes that favor survival of an organism or group of organisms are lost

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The analysis of what component has led to the classification of organisms into three domains?

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rRNA

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Which of the following is not considered a microorganism?

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Mushroom

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An area of microbiology that is concerened with the occurrence of disease in human populations is

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epidemiology

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Which process involves the deliberate alteration of an organism’s genetic material?

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recombinant DNA

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A prominent difference between prokarytoic and eukaryotic cells is the

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presence of a nucleus in eukaryotes

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Which of the following parts was absent form Leeuwenhoek’s microscope?

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condenser

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Abiogenesis refers to the

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spontaneous generation of organisms from nonliving matter

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A hypothesis can be defined as

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a scientific explanation that is subject to testing

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33
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Which early microbiologist was most responsible for developing standard microbiology laboratory techniques?

A

Robert Koch

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Which scientist is most responsible for fianlly laying the theory of spontaneous generation to rest?

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Lous Pasteur

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When a hypothesis has been throughly supported by long-term study and data, it is considered

36
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Which is the correct order of the taxonomic catergories, going from most specific to most general?

A

species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain

37
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By defeintion, organisms in the same ________ are more closely related than are those in the same __________.

A

class, phylum

38
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Which of the following are prokaryotic?

A

bacteria and archaea

39
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MicBo 1

Which of the following is not an emerging infections disease?

A

common cold

40
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How would you classify a virus?

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neither prokaryotic or eukaryotic, not cellular & not alive

41
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MicBo 1

How old are the oldest organisms on earth said to be?

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3.5 billion years

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How old are prokaryotes?

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3.5 billion years

43
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How old are eukaryotes?

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1.8 billion years

44
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Photsynthetic microorganisms account for how much of the earth’s photosynthesis?

45
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What % of microbes live in and beneath earth’s crust and contribute to weathering, mineral extraction, and soil formation?

46
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MicBo 1

Ancient egyptians used what to treat wounds?

A

moldy bread

47
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Recombinant DNA:

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deliberate alteraion of DNA and switching DNA from one organism to another

48
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Bioremediation:

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introduciton of microbes into the environment to restore stability or to clean up toxic pollutants

49
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Pathogens are

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disease causing microbes

50
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How many microbes cause disease?

51
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MicBo 1

How many infections are there each year?

A

10 billion

52
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MicBo 1

Emerging infectious disease include:

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Ebola, AIDS, Zoonoses, & SARS

53
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Remerging infectious disease include:

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TB, Malaria, Cholera, Hepatitis B

54
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Emerging disease is

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a newly identified disease that is becoming more prominent

55
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Remerging disease is

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older disease, known for hundreds of years that are increasing in occurrence

56
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More mobile populations

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cause the spread of infectious disease

57
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Virus are not

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cells, so they are considered living

58
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Virus

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begave as infectious particles, and are dependent on host’s cell machinery for their activites

59
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Biogenesis:

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living things only arise from other living things of their kind

60
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Rise of scientific method helped to disprove

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abiogenesis

61
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Antonie vanLeeuwenhoek

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constructed the first useful microsoc

62
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MicBo 1

John Tyndall

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provided evidence that microbes have very high resistance and are very difficult to destroy

63
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Robert Koch

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clearly linked a specific microbe with a specific disease

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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observed that mothers giving birth at home were healtheir than those birthing in hospitals

65
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Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

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showed that women were becoming ill by physicans that came directly from autospy without washing

66
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MicBo 1

Joseph Lister

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introduced aseptic techniques in medical settings; involved disinfecting hands and air with strong antseptic chemicals (phenol) prior to surgery; later head was added to the sterilization process

67
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MicBo 1

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur

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are given credit for establishing the Germ Theory of Disease

68
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MicBo 1

Carl von Linne’

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laid down the basic rules for taxonic categories

69
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Taxonomy

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naming things

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Nomenclature

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process for assigning names

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Identification

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process of determining and recording traits

72
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Bionomical nomenclature

73
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Genus is

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always capitalized

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Species is

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always lower case

75
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Borth Genus and Species should be

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either underlined of italicized

76
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Phylogeny

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natural rlatedness between group

77
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Evolution

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gradual change over millions of years that result in structural and/or functional change: changes that favor survival

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Morphology

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Physiology

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Genetics

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inheritance

81
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All new species

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originate from preexisting species

82
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Microbes include:

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Bacteria, Fungi, Viruses, Protozoa, Algae, Helminths (parasitic worms)

83
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MicBo 1

Levels of Classification

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