BIO 225 Final Exam (Openstax) Questions and Answers
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Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
orange juice
Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Hippocrates
Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small
to see?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
protist
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo sapiens
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Ernst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
alga
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
cyanobacterium
Which of the following is acellular?
virus
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
yeast
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
botany
Which of the following individuals argued in favor of the theory of spontaneous
generation?
John Needham
Which of the following individuals is credited for definitively refuting the theory of
spontaneous generation using broth in swan-neck flask?
Louis Pasteur
Which of the following scientists experimented with raw meat, maggots, and flies
in an attempt to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?
Francesco Redi
Which of the following individuals did not contribute to the establishment of cell
theory?
Girolamo Fracastoro
, Whose proposal of the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondrial and chloroplast
origin was ultimately accepted by the greater scientific community?
Lynn Margulis
Which of the following developed a set of postulates for determining whether a
particular disease is caused by a particular pathogen?
Robert Koch
Which of the following terms refers to a prokaryotic cell that is comma shaped?
vibrio
Which bacterial structures are important for adherence to surfaces? (Select all
that apply.)
fimbriae and flagella
Which of the following cell wall components is unique to gram-negative cells?
lipopolysaccharide
Which of the following terms refers to a bacterial cell having a single tuft of
flagella at one end?
lophotrichous
Bacterial cell walls are primarily composed of which of the following?
peptidoglycan
Which of the following organelles is not part of the endomembrane system?
peroxisome
Which type of cytoskeletal fiber is important in the formation of the nuclear
lamina?
intermediate filaments
Sugar groups may be added to proteins in which of the following?
Golgi apparatus
Which of the following structures of a eukaryotic cell is not likely derived from
endosymbiotic bacterium?
outer membrane
Which type of nutrient uptake involves the engulfment of small dissolved
molecules into vesicles?
pinocytosis
Which of the following is not composed of microtubules?
desmosomes
Which genus includes the causative agent for malaria?
Plasmodium
Which protist is a concern because of its ability to contaminate water supplies
and cause diarrheal illness?
Giardia lamblia
A fluke is classified within which of the following?
Platyhelminthes
A nonsegmented worm is found during a routine colonoscopy of an individual
who reported having abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting. This worm is
likely which of the following?
nematode
A segmented worm has male and female reproductive organs in each segment.
Some use hooks to attach to the intestinal wall. Which type of worm is this?
with complete solution
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
orange juice
Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Hippocrates
Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small
to see?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
protist
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo sapiens
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Ernst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
alga
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
cyanobacterium
Which of the following is acellular?
virus
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
yeast
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
botany
Which of the following individuals argued in favor of the theory of spontaneous
generation?
John Needham
Which of the following individuals is credited for definitively refuting the theory of
spontaneous generation using broth in swan-neck flask?
Louis Pasteur
Which of the following scientists experimented with raw meat, maggots, and flies
in an attempt to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?
Francesco Redi
Which of the following individuals did not contribute to the establishment of cell
theory?
Girolamo Fracastoro
, Whose proposal of the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondrial and chloroplast
origin was ultimately accepted by the greater scientific community?
Lynn Margulis
Which of the following developed a set of postulates for determining whether a
particular disease is caused by a particular pathogen?
Robert Koch
Which of the following terms refers to a prokaryotic cell that is comma shaped?
vibrio
Which bacterial structures are important for adherence to surfaces? (Select all
that apply.)
fimbriae and flagella
Which of the following cell wall components is unique to gram-negative cells?
lipopolysaccharide
Which of the following terms refers to a bacterial cell having a single tuft of
flagella at one end?
lophotrichous
Bacterial cell walls are primarily composed of which of the following?
peptidoglycan
Which of the following organelles is not part of the endomembrane system?
peroxisome
Which type of cytoskeletal fiber is important in the formation of the nuclear
lamina?
intermediate filaments
Sugar groups may be added to proteins in which of the following?
Golgi apparatus
Which of the following structures of a eukaryotic cell is not likely derived from
endosymbiotic bacterium?
outer membrane
Which type of nutrient uptake involves the engulfment of small dissolved
molecules into vesicles?
pinocytosis
Which of the following is not composed of microtubules?
desmosomes
Which genus includes the causative agent for malaria?
Plasmodium
Which protist is a concern because of its ability to contaminate water supplies
and cause diarrheal illness?
Giardia lamblia
A fluke is classified within which of the following?
Platyhelminthes
A nonsegmented worm is found during a routine colonoscopy of an individual
who reported having abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting. This worm is
likely which of the following?
nematode
A segmented worm has male and female reproductive organs in each segment.
Some use hooks to attach to the intestinal wall. Which type of worm is this?
