OPENSTAX MICROBIO (CHAPTERS 1-3 and
7) MC REVIEW QUESTIONS -- EXAM 1 PREP
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
A. Beer
B. Bread
C. Cheese
D. Orange Juice - correct answer D
Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
A. Marcus Terentius Varro
B. Thucydides
C. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D. Hippocrates - correct answer D
Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
B. Ötzi the Iceman
C. Marcus Terentius Varro
D. Robert Koch - correct answer A
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 - correct answer B
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
A. animal
B. mineral
,OPENSTAX MICROBIO (CHAPTERS 1-3 and
7) MC REVIEW QUESTIONS -- EXAM 1 PREP
C. protist
D. plant - correct answer C
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature? *Imagine all answers are Italicized
except for A*
A. Homo Sapiens
B. homo sapiens
C. Homo sapiens
D. Homo Sapiens - correct answer C
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
A. Carolus Linnaeus
B. Carl Woese
C. Robert Whittaker
D. Ernst Haeckel - correct answer D
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
A. Plantae
B. Bacteria
C. Archaea
D. Eukarya - correct answer A
Which of the following 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 - correct answer B
, OPENSTAX MICROBIO (CHAPTERS 1-3 and
7) MC REVIEW QUESTIONS -- EXAM 1 PREP
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
A. yeast
B. virus
C. helminth
D. alga - correct answer D
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
A. helminth
B. protozoan
C. cyanobacterium
D. mold - correct answer C
Which of the following is acellular?
A. virus
B. bacterium
C. fungus
D. protozoan - correct answer A
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
A. bacterium
B. protozoan
C. alga
D. yeast - correct answer D
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
A. bacteriology
B. botany
7) MC REVIEW QUESTIONS -- EXAM 1 PREP
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
A. Beer
B. Bread
C. Cheese
D. Orange Juice - correct answer D
Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
A. Marcus Terentius Varro
B. Thucydides
C. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D. Hippocrates - correct answer D
Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
B. Ötzi the Iceman
C. Marcus Terentius Varro
D. Robert Koch - correct answer A
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 - correct answer B
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
A. animal
B. mineral
,OPENSTAX MICROBIO (CHAPTERS 1-3 and
7) MC REVIEW QUESTIONS -- EXAM 1 PREP
C. protist
D. plant - correct answer C
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature? *Imagine all answers are Italicized
except for A*
A. Homo Sapiens
B. homo sapiens
C. Homo sapiens
D. Homo Sapiens - correct answer C
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
A. Carolus Linnaeus
B. Carl Woese
C. Robert Whittaker
D. Ernst Haeckel - correct answer D
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
A. Plantae
B. Bacteria
C. Archaea
D. Eukarya - correct answer A
Which of the following 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 - correct answer B
, OPENSTAX MICROBIO (CHAPTERS 1-3 and
7) MC REVIEW QUESTIONS -- EXAM 1 PREP
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
A. yeast
B. virus
C. helminth
D. alga - correct answer D
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
A. helminth
B. protozoan
C. cyanobacterium
D. mold - correct answer C
Which of the following is acellular?
A. virus
B. bacterium
C. fungus
D. protozoan - correct answer A
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
A. bacterium
B. protozoan
C. alga
D. yeast - correct answer D
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
A. bacteriology
B. botany
