Microbiology Exam With 100% Correct
Answers
Why study microbiology? - correct answers ✔✔The treatment and prevention of the diseases
caused by microbes
What are some benefits of microbes? - correct answers ✔✔Some produce penicillin, and help
create vaccines
What are some of the problems microbes cause? - correct answers ✔✔cause infections such as
the flu and measles
What is life? - correct answers ✔✔composed of one or more cells, reproducing, growing,
functional activity
What is the binomial nomenclature system? - correct answers ✔✔Combines two names into
one to give all species unique scientific names
How do you write the correct name of an organism? - correct answers ✔✔Write both the genus
and species name in italics and capitalize only the genus name
Compare the 5 kingdom vs 3 domain systems of classification - correct answers ✔✔
Contrast the 5 kingdom vs 3 domain systems of classification - correct answers ✔✔
Criteria for 5 kingdom classification - correct answers ✔✔
, Criteria for 3 domain classification - correct answers ✔✔
What is Spontaneous generation? - correct answers ✔✔Organisms can appear from nothing
What is biogenesis? - correct answers ✔✔Idea that living things can only arise from other living
things
How was spontaneous generation finally rejected? - correct answers ✔✔Pasteur's swan neck
flasks rejected the idea by having one neck broken and one not
What is a spore former/bacterial endospore? - correct answers ✔✔dehydrated, metabolically
inactive
How did spores complicate the quest to disprove spontaneous generation? - correct answers
✔✔Spores complicated it by the spores resisting extreme environments to survive cleaning
processes
Who contributed to the field of Microbiology? - correct answers ✔✔
What were their contributes? - correct answers ✔✔
How does immunization work? - correct answers ✔✔The science that deals with the host's
response to microbial invasion. Led to vaccines
Why were antibiotics considered the wonder drugs? Are they still? - correct answers
✔✔because they helped increase life expectancy in the 1900s. No they aren't because bacteria
are becoming resistant
Answers
Why study microbiology? - correct answers ✔✔The treatment and prevention of the diseases
caused by microbes
What are some benefits of microbes? - correct answers ✔✔Some produce penicillin, and help
create vaccines
What are some of the problems microbes cause? - correct answers ✔✔cause infections such as
the flu and measles
What is life? - correct answers ✔✔composed of one or more cells, reproducing, growing,
functional activity
What is the binomial nomenclature system? - correct answers ✔✔Combines two names into
one to give all species unique scientific names
How do you write the correct name of an organism? - correct answers ✔✔Write both the genus
and species name in italics and capitalize only the genus name
Compare the 5 kingdom vs 3 domain systems of classification - correct answers ✔✔
Contrast the 5 kingdom vs 3 domain systems of classification - correct answers ✔✔
Criteria for 5 kingdom classification - correct answers ✔✔
, Criteria for 3 domain classification - correct answers ✔✔
What is Spontaneous generation? - correct answers ✔✔Organisms can appear from nothing
What is biogenesis? - correct answers ✔✔Idea that living things can only arise from other living
things
How was spontaneous generation finally rejected? - correct answers ✔✔Pasteur's swan neck
flasks rejected the idea by having one neck broken and one not
What is a spore former/bacterial endospore? - correct answers ✔✔dehydrated, metabolically
inactive
How did spores complicate the quest to disprove spontaneous generation? - correct answers
✔✔Spores complicated it by the spores resisting extreme environments to survive cleaning
processes
Who contributed to the field of Microbiology? - correct answers ✔✔
What were their contributes? - correct answers ✔✔
How does immunization work? - correct answers ✔✔The science that deals with the host's
response to microbial invasion. Led to vaccines
Why were antibiotics considered the wonder drugs? Are they still? - correct answers
✔✔because they helped increase life expectancy in the 1900s. No they aren't because bacteria
are becoming resistant
