BMS 127 Midterm #1 questions with
complete solutions A+ rated
what's the best way to study - correct answer ✔✔to teach the material to someone else
how much time should you budget to study - correct answer ✔✔3 hours of study and reading
time for ever 1 hour of lecture
how should you approach reading the material - correct answer ✔✔read once casually before
lecture, and carefully read relevant sections after
how should you approach taking notes - correct answer ✔✔take notes on post-lecture reading,
incorporate into lecture and rewrite all notes
what is the golden age of micorbiology - correct answer ✔✔1870 to 1910
an example of microbes role in agriculture? - correct answer ✔✔nitrogen-fixing bacteria are
formed/live in legume root modules
plant legumes so that NH4 will leach out into soil, use soil to plant other crops (crop-rotation)
an example of microbes role in bioremediation - correct answer ✔✔some bacteria eat oil and
this can help w oil spills
an example of microbes role in symbiosis - correct answer ✔✔Vibrio fischeri glow and are
under Hawaiian bobtail squids. This glow helps them hide from predators since they're
nocturnal
,symbiosis definition - correct answer ✔✔Any relationship in which two species live closely
together
pathogen - correct answer ✔✔disease-causing microbe
opportunistic pathogen - correct answer ✔✔causes disease only in the absence of normal host
resistance
true pathogen - correct answer ✔✔cause disease in any circumstance
sacrobe - correct answer ✔✔consume dead things
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer ✔✔invented 1st microscope and discovered
microorganisms
Robert Hooke - correct answer ✔✔used a compound microscope to discover that large
organisms were omposed of microscopic cells
Louis Pasteur - correct answer ✔✔1. make vaccine against rabies
2. invented pasteurization (food preservation technique)
3. disproved abiogenesis
alexander Flemming - correct answer ✔✔Discovered penicillin, first antibiotic
Edward Jenner - correct answer ✔✔Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796
Robert Koch - correct answer ✔✔1. identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
, 2. streak plate method to ID pathogens
3. father of microbio
Carolus Linnaeus - correct answer ✔✔1. developed binomial nomenclature
2. father of taxonomy
Joseph Lister - correct answer ✔✔discovered how antiseptics prevented infection, began using
during surgery
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔1. Established sanitary nursing care units.
2. Founder of modern nursing
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔hand-washing to prevent "childbed fever"
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔father of epidemiology
Mapped the occurrence of cholera
dehydration synthesis - correct answer ✔✔name of rxn that forms our molecules
hydrolysis - correct answer ✔✔name of rxn that breaks apart our molecules
what type of bond between carbohydrates - correct answer ✔✔covalent
A covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides by a dehydration reaction. - correct
answer ✔✔glycosidic linkage
complete solutions A+ rated
what's the best way to study - correct answer ✔✔to teach the material to someone else
how much time should you budget to study - correct answer ✔✔3 hours of study and reading
time for ever 1 hour of lecture
how should you approach reading the material - correct answer ✔✔read once casually before
lecture, and carefully read relevant sections after
how should you approach taking notes - correct answer ✔✔take notes on post-lecture reading,
incorporate into lecture and rewrite all notes
what is the golden age of micorbiology - correct answer ✔✔1870 to 1910
an example of microbes role in agriculture? - correct answer ✔✔nitrogen-fixing bacteria are
formed/live in legume root modules
plant legumes so that NH4 will leach out into soil, use soil to plant other crops (crop-rotation)
an example of microbes role in bioremediation - correct answer ✔✔some bacteria eat oil and
this can help w oil spills
an example of microbes role in symbiosis - correct answer ✔✔Vibrio fischeri glow and are
under Hawaiian bobtail squids. This glow helps them hide from predators since they're
nocturnal
,symbiosis definition - correct answer ✔✔Any relationship in which two species live closely
together
pathogen - correct answer ✔✔disease-causing microbe
opportunistic pathogen - correct answer ✔✔causes disease only in the absence of normal host
resistance
true pathogen - correct answer ✔✔cause disease in any circumstance
sacrobe - correct answer ✔✔consume dead things
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer ✔✔invented 1st microscope and discovered
microorganisms
Robert Hooke - correct answer ✔✔used a compound microscope to discover that large
organisms were omposed of microscopic cells
Louis Pasteur - correct answer ✔✔1. make vaccine against rabies
2. invented pasteurization (food preservation technique)
3. disproved abiogenesis
alexander Flemming - correct answer ✔✔Discovered penicillin, first antibiotic
Edward Jenner - correct answer ✔✔Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796
Robert Koch - correct answer ✔✔1. identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
, 2. streak plate method to ID pathogens
3. father of microbio
Carolus Linnaeus - correct answer ✔✔1. developed binomial nomenclature
2. father of taxonomy
Joseph Lister - correct answer ✔✔discovered how antiseptics prevented infection, began using
during surgery
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔1. Established sanitary nursing care units.
2. Founder of modern nursing
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔hand-washing to prevent "childbed fever"
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔father of epidemiology
Mapped the occurrence of cholera
dehydration synthesis - correct answer ✔✔name of rxn that forms our molecules
hydrolysis - correct answer ✔✔name of rxn that breaks apart our molecules
what type of bond between carbohydrates - correct answer ✔✔covalent
A covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides by a dehydration reaction. - correct
answer ✔✔glycosidic linkage
