BIOL 2030 OPENSTAX MICROBIOLOGY
COMPREHENSIVE MICROBIAL STRUCTURE
AND FUNCTION REVIEW SHEET FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Thucydides
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Hippocrates
Answer: Hippocrates
●● Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Ötzi the Iceman
Marcus Terentius Varro
Robert Koch
Answer: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
●● Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing
animals too small to see?
Thucydides
,Marcus Terentius Varro
Hippocrates
Louis Pasteur
Answer: Marcus Terentius Varro
●● Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's
taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant
Answer: protist
●● Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens
Answer: Homo sapiens
●● Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Carolus Linnaeus
,Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel
Answer: Ernst Haeckel
●● Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's
phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya
Answer: Plantae
●● Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying
bacteria?
Systema Naturae
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms
Answer: Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
●● Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
yeast
, virus
helminth
alga
Answer: alga
●● Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold
Answer: cyanobacterium
●● Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
fungus
protozoan
Answer: virus
●● Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
bacterium
protozoan
COMPREHENSIVE MICROBIAL STRUCTURE
AND FUNCTION REVIEW SHEET FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Thucydides
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Hippocrates
Answer: Hippocrates
●● Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Ötzi the Iceman
Marcus Terentius Varro
Robert Koch
Answer: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
●● Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing
animals too small to see?
Thucydides
,Marcus Terentius Varro
Hippocrates
Louis Pasteur
Answer: Marcus Terentius Varro
●● Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's
taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant
Answer: protist
●● Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens
Answer: Homo sapiens
●● Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Carolus Linnaeus
,Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel
Answer: Ernst Haeckel
●● Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's
phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya
Answer: Plantae
●● Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying
bacteria?
Systema Naturae
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms
Answer: Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
●● Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
yeast
, virus
helminth
alga
Answer: alga
●● Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold
Answer: cyanobacterium
●● Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
fungus
protozoan
Answer: virus
●● Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
bacterium
protozoan