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Chapter 1: An Invisible World

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Chapter 1: An Invisible World

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1-1 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
  1. a.
    beer
  2. b.
    bread
  3. c.
    cheese
  4. d.
    orange juice

Answer

D. orange juice

1-2 §1.MC source ↗

Who is considered the “father of Western medicine”?
  1. a.
    Marcus Terentius Varro
  2. b.
    Thucydides
  3. c.
    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  4. d.
    Hippocrates

Answer

D. Hippocrates

1-3 §1.MC source ↗

Who was the first to observe “animalcules” under the microscope?
  1. a.
    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  2. b.
    Ötzi the Iceman
  3. c.
    Marcus Terentius Varro
  4. d.
    Robert Koch

Answer

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

1-4 §1.MC source ↗

Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see?
  1. a.
    Thucydides
  2. b.
    Marcus Terentius Varro
  3. c.
    Hippocrates
  4. d.
    Louis Pasteur

Answer

B. Marcus Terentius Varro

1-5 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus’s taxonomy?
  1. a.
    animal
  2. b.
    mineral
  3. c.
    protist
  4. d.
    plant

Answer

C. protist

1-6 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
  1. a.
    Homo Sapiens
  2. b.
    homo sapiens
  3. c.
    Homo sapiens
  4. d.
    Homo Sapiens

Answer

C. Homo sapiens

1-7 §1.MC source ↗

Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
  1. a.
    Carolus Linnaeus
  2. b.
    Carl Woese
  3. c.
    Robert Whittaker
  4. d.
    Ernst Haeckel

Answer

D. Ernst Haeckel

1-8 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree?
  1. a.
    Plantae
  2. b.
    Bacteria
  3. c.
    Archaea
  4. d.
    Eukarya

Answer

A. Plantae

1-9 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
  1. a.
    Systema Naturae
  2. b.
    Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
  3. c.
    Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree
  4. d.
    Haeckel’s General Morphology of Organisms

Answer

B. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology

1-10 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
  1. a.
    yeast
  2. b.
    virus
  3. c.
    helminth
  4. d.
    alga

Answer

D. alga

1-11 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
  1. a.
    helminth
  2. b.
    protozoan
  3. c.
    cyanobacterium
  4. d.
    mold

Answer

C. cyanobacterium

1-12 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is acellular?
  1. a.
    virus
  2. b.
    bacterium
  3. c.
    fungus
  4. d.
    protozoan

Answer

A. virus

1-13 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
  1. a.
    bacterium
  2. b.
    protozoan
  3. c.
    alga
  4. d.
    yeast

Answer

D. yeast

1-14 §1.MC source ↗

Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
  1. a.
    bacteriology
  2. b.
    botany
  3. c.
    clinical microbiology
  4. d.
    virology

Answer

B. botany

1-15 §1.FITB source ↗

Thucydides is known as the father of _______________.

Answer

scientific history

1-16 §1.FITB source ↗

Researchers think that Ötzi the Iceman may have been infected with _____ disease.

Answer

Lyme

1-17 §1.FITB source ↗

The process by which microbes turn grape juice into wine is called _______________.

Answer

fermentation

1-18 §1.FITB source ↗

In binomial nomenclature, an organism’s scientific name includes its ________ and __________.

Answer

genus, species

1-19 §1.FITB source ↗

Haeckel proposed adding the kingdoms ________ and ________ to his phylogenetic tree.

Answer

Protista and Monera

1-20 §1.FITB source ↗

__________ are organisms without membrane-bound nuclei.

Answer

Prokaryotes

1-21 §1.FITB source ↗

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

Answer

Viruses

1-22 §1.FITB source ↗

A ________ is a disease-causing microorganism.

Answer

pathogen

1-23 §1.FITB source ↗

Multicellular parasitic worms studied by microbiologists are called ___________.

Answer

helminths

1-24 §1.FITB source ↗

The study of viruses is ___________.

Answer

virology

1-25 §1.FITB source ↗

The cells of prokaryotic organisms lack a _______.

Answer

nucleus

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