FINAL Westcott micro bio
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
beer
bread
cheese
orange juice – answer orange juice
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 - answerMarcus Terentius Varro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant - answerprotist
6.
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens - answerHomo sapiens
.
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
,Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel - answerErnst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya - answerplantae
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 - answerBergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
yeast
virus
helminth
alga - answeralga
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold - answercyanobacterium
.
Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
fungus
protozoan - answervirus
.
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
bacterium
protozoan
alga
yeast - answeryeast
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
bacteriology
,botany
clinical microbiology
virology - answerbotany
.
Which of the following has the highest energy?
light with a long wavelength
light with an intermediate wavelength
light with a short wavelength
It is impossible to tell from the information given. - answerlight with a short wavelength
You place a specimen under the microscope and notice that parts of the specimen
begin to emit light immediately. These materials can be described as _____________.
fluorescent
phosphorescent
transparent
opaque - answerfluorescent
Who was the first to describe "cells" in dead cork tissue?
Hans Janssen
Zaccharias Janssen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke - answerrobert hooke
Who is the probable inventor of the compound microscope?
Girolamo Fracastoro
Zaccharias Janssen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke - answerZaccharias Janssen
Which would be the best choice for viewing internal structures of a living protist such as
a Paramecium?
a brightfield microscope with a stain
a brightfield microscope without a stain
a darkfield microscope
a transmission electron microscope - answerdarkfield microscope
Which type of microscope is especially useful for viewing thick structures such as
biofilms?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscopes
a phase-contrast microscope
a confocal scanning laser microscope
an atomic force microscope - answera confocal scanning laser microscope
.
, Which type of microscope would be the best choice for viewing very small surface
structures of a cell?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscope
a brightfield microscope
a darkfield microscope
a phase-contrast microscope - answera scanning electron microscope
What type of microscope uses an annular stop?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscope
a brightfield microscope
a darkfield microscope
a phase-contrast microscope - answera phase contrast microscrope
What mordant is used in Gram staining?
crystal violet
safranin
acid-alcohol
iodine - answeriodine
What is one difference between specimen preparation for a transmission electron
microscope (TEM) and preparation for a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
Only the TEM specimen requires sputter coating.
Only the SEM specimen requires sputter-coating.
Only the TEM specimen must be dehydrated.
Only the SEM specimen must be dehydrated. - answeronly sem specimen requires
sputter-coating
Which of the following individuals argued in favor of the theory of spontaneous
generation?
Francesco Redi
Louis Pasteur
John Needham
Lazzaro Spallanzani - answerjohn needman
Which of the following individuals is credited for definitively refuting the theory of
spontaneous generation using broth in swan-neck flask?
Aristotle
Jan Baptista van Helmont
John Needham
Louis Pasteur - answerlouis pasteur
Which of the following scientists experimented with raw meat, maggots, and flies in an
attempt to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?
Aristotle
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
beer
bread
cheese
orange juice – answer orange juice
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 - answerMarcus Terentius Varro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant - answerprotist
6.
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens - answerHomo sapiens
.
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
,Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel - answerErnst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya - answerplantae
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 - answerBergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
yeast
virus
helminth
alga - answeralga
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold - answercyanobacterium
.
Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
fungus
protozoan - answervirus
.
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
bacterium
protozoan
alga
yeast - answeryeast
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
bacteriology
,botany
clinical microbiology
virology - answerbotany
.
Which of the following has the highest energy?
light with a long wavelength
light with an intermediate wavelength
light with a short wavelength
It is impossible to tell from the information given. - answerlight with a short wavelength
You place a specimen under the microscope and notice that parts of the specimen
begin to emit light immediately. These materials can be described as _____________.
fluorescent
phosphorescent
transparent
opaque - answerfluorescent
Who was the first to describe "cells" in dead cork tissue?
Hans Janssen
Zaccharias Janssen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke - answerrobert hooke
Who is the probable inventor of the compound microscope?
Girolamo Fracastoro
Zaccharias Janssen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke - answerZaccharias Janssen
Which would be the best choice for viewing internal structures of a living protist such as
a Paramecium?
a brightfield microscope with a stain
a brightfield microscope without a stain
a darkfield microscope
a transmission electron microscope - answerdarkfield microscope
Which type of microscope is especially useful for viewing thick structures such as
biofilms?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscopes
a phase-contrast microscope
a confocal scanning laser microscope
an atomic force microscope - answera confocal scanning laser microscope
.
, Which type of microscope would be the best choice for viewing very small surface
structures of a cell?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscope
a brightfield microscope
a darkfield microscope
a phase-contrast microscope - answera scanning electron microscope
What type of microscope uses an annular stop?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscope
a brightfield microscope
a darkfield microscope
a phase-contrast microscope - answera phase contrast microscrope
What mordant is used in Gram staining?
crystal violet
safranin
acid-alcohol
iodine - answeriodine
What is one difference between specimen preparation for a transmission electron
microscope (TEM) and preparation for a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
Only the TEM specimen requires sputter coating.
Only the SEM specimen requires sputter-coating.
Only the TEM specimen must be dehydrated.
Only the SEM specimen must be dehydrated. - answeronly sem specimen requires
sputter-coating
Which of the following individuals argued in favor of the theory of spontaneous
generation?
Francesco Redi
Louis Pasteur
John Needham
Lazzaro Spallanzani - answerjohn needman
Which of the following individuals is credited for definitively refuting the theory of
spontaneous generation using broth in swan-neck flask?
Aristotle
Jan Baptista van Helmont
John Needham
Louis Pasteur - answerlouis pasteur
Which of the following scientists experimented with raw meat, maggots, and flies in an
attempt to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?
Aristotle
