Westcott Microbiology Final Exam: Official
Topic Coverage
Original Practice Questions: Questions 1–300
History and Foundational Concepts (Chapter 1)
1. Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
A) Marcus Terentius Varro
B) Thucydides
C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D) Hippocrates
D) Hippocrates
Hippocrates established medicine as a discipline distinct from philosophy and
religion and is credited with the Hippocratic Oath .
2. Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
A) Robert Koch
B) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Marcus Terentius Varro
B) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
,Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms
("animalcules") using a simple microscope he designed .
3. Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
A) Beer
B) Bread
C) Cheese
D) Orange juice
D) Orange juice
Orange juice is produced by mechanical extraction and pasteurization. Beer,
bread, and cheese are all produced through microbial fermentation .
4. 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
B) Marcus Terentius Varro
Varro proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too
small to be seen with the naked eye .
,5. Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
A) Carolus Linnaeus
B) Carl Woese
C) Robert Whittaker
D) Ernst Haeckel
D) Ernst Haeckel
Haeckel proposed adding a kingdom for protists, recognizing that single-
celled organisms did not fit into the plant or animal kingdoms .
6. What 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
B) Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Bergey's Manual is the standard reference for identifying bacteria based on
phenotypic characteristics .
7. Which of the following is acellular?
, A) Virus
B) Bacterium
C) Fungus
D) Protozoan
A) Virus
Viruses are acellular infectious agents consisting of nucleic acid and protein
coat .
8. Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
A) Yeast
B) Virus
C) Helminth
D) Alga
D) Alga
Algae are photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms that can be unicellular or
multicellular .
9. Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
A) Helminth
B) Protozoan
C) Cyanobacterium
D) Mold
Topic Coverage
Original Practice Questions: Questions 1–300
History and Foundational Concepts (Chapter 1)
1. Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
A) Marcus Terentius Varro
B) Thucydides
C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D) Hippocrates
D) Hippocrates
Hippocrates established medicine as a discipline distinct from philosophy and
religion and is credited with the Hippocratic Oath .
2. Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
A) Robert Koch
B) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Marcus Terentius Varro
B) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
,Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms
("animalcules") using a simple microscope he designed .
3. Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
A) Beer
B) Bread
C) Cheese
D) Orange juice
D) Orange juice
Orange juice is produced by mechanical extraction and pasteurization. Beer,
bread, and cheese are all produced through microbial fermentation .
4. 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
B) Marcus Terentius Varro
Varro proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too
small to be seen with the naked eye .
,5. Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
A) Carolus Linnaeus
B) Carl Woese
C) Robert Whittaker
D) Ernst Haeckel
D) Ernst Haeckel
Haeckel proposed adding a kingdom for protists, recognizing that single-
celled organisms did not fit into the plant or animal kingdoms .
6. What 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
B) Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Bergey's Manual is the standard reference for identifying bacteria based on
phenotypic characteristics .
7. Which of the following is acellular?
, A) Virus
B) Bacterium
C) Fungus
D) Protozoan
A) Virus
Viruses are acellular infectious agents consisting of nucleic acid and protein
coat .
8. Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
A) Yeast
B) Virus
C) Helminth
D) Alga
D) Alga
Algae are photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms that can be unicellular or
multicellular .
9. Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
A) Helminth
B) Protozoan
C) Cyanobacterium
D) Mold
