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Uiowa Microbiology Exam 1 Questions &
100% Correct Answers
Pathogens are
✓ ~~> microbes that cause disease
Alexander Flemming discovered
✓ ~~> penicillin's activity (effective against all gram-positive bacteria)
Paul Ehrlich discovered
✓ ~~> antibiotics *aka "magic bullets"
Ignaz Semmelsweis
✓ ~~> hand washing
Joseph Lister
✓ ~~> aseptic technique
Edward Jenner
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✓ ~~> used cow pox virus to protect humans from small pox (first
vaccine)
Robert Koch
✓ ~~> Koch's postulates verified the germ theory
Louis Pasteur
✓ ~~> Pasteurization & disproved spontaneous generation with swan
neck flask experiment
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
✓ ~~> built a simpler microscope, first to observe human blood cells,
and discovered the yeast that makes bread rise was a single-celled
organism
Robert Hooke
✓ ~~> built the first microscope, coined the term CELL
Taxonomy is...
✓ ~~> classifying living things based on shared characteristics
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Taxonomy is the work of...
✓ ~~> Carl von Linne
Microbial Nomenclature is
✓ ~~> naming microorganisms
Nucleic acids are made of
✓ ~~> nucleotides
Proteins are made up of
✓ ~~> amino acids
Steroids
✓ ~~> ringed structure
A disaccaride is
✓ ~~> 2 monosaccarides
A polysaccharide is made up of
✓ ~~> chains of monosaccharides
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
Uiowa Microbiology Exam 1 Questions &
100% Correct Answers
Pathogens are
✓ ~~> microbes that cause disease
Alexander Flemming discovered
✓ ~~> penicillin's activity (effective against all gram-positive bacteria)
Paul Ehrlich discovered
✓ ~~> antibiotics *aka "magic bullets"
Ignaz Semmelsweis
✓ ~~> hand washing
Joseph Lister
✓ ~~> aseptic technique
Edward Jenner
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 2 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
✓ ~~> used cow pox virus to protect humans from small pox (first
vaccine)
Robert Koch
✓ ~~> Koch's postulates verified the germ theory
Louis Pasteur
✓ ~~> Pasteurization & disproved spontaneous generation with swan
neck flask experiment
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
✓ ~~> built a simpler microscope, first to observe human blood cells,
and discovered the yeast that makes bread rise was a single-celled
organism
Robert Hooke
✓ ~~> built the first microscope, coined the term CELL
Taxonomy is...
✓ ~~> classifying living things based on shared characteristics
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 3 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
Taxonomy is the work of...
✓ ~~> Carl von Linne
Microbial Nomenclature is
✓ ~~> naming microorganisms
Nucleic acids are made of
✓ ~~> nucleotides
Proteins are made up of
✓ ~~> amino acids
Steroids
✓ ~~> ringed structure
A disaccaride is
✓ ~~> 2 monosaccarides
A polysaccharide is made up of
✓ ~~> chains of monosaccharides
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
