MCB 2010 Test 1 (IRSC) Final Exam
Questions and All Actual Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
Who made the first microscope? - Answer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Who were the two scientists that disproved spontaneous generation? - Answer Redi and
Pasteur
Who developed postulates to demonstrate that microorganisms caused disease? - Answer
Koch
What are those postulates? - Answer criteria designed to have a relationship between a
microbe and a disease
Semmelweis - Answer infection control (hand-washing)
Pasteur - Answer industrial microbiology/pasteurization
Nightingale - Answer nursing
Lister - Answer antiseptic
Jenner - Answer field of immunology (vaccine)
Ehrlich - Answer chemotherapy (magic bullets)
Linnaeus - Answer taxonomy
Which domain has the molecule peptidoglycan as part of its cell wall structure? - Answer
bacteria
, biofilm - Answer mixed population of microbes growing together on surfaces
single-celled eukaryotes that feed on other organisms and have a cell wall are - Answer algae
molecular biology - Answer combines aspects of biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics to
explain cell function at the molecular level
Archaea - Answer prokaryotic, unicellular, cell wall, asexual
Bacteria - Answer prokaryotic, unicellular, cell wall, asexual
Protozoa - Answer eukaryotic, unicellular, no cell wall, both asexual and sexual
Fungi - Answer eukaryotic, unicellular and multicellular, cell wall, both asexual and sexual
(molds or yeasts)
Algae - Answer eukaryotic, unicellular and multicellular, cell wall, both asexual and sexual
virus - Answer very small, bacteriophage (attacks bacteria)
Glycocalyces - Answer purpose to protect cells from drying out
What are the two types of glycolcalyces? - Answer capsule and slime layer
capsule - Answer Firmly attached to cell surface
slime layer - Answer loosely attached to cell surface
What are the three basic shapes of bacteria? - Answer coccus, bacillus, and spiral
Describe the movement of bacterial flagella - Answer moves in response to stimuli, rotates to
propel through environment, and can be counter clockwise or clockwise
Questions and All Actual Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
Who made the first microscope? - Answer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Who were the two scientists that disproved spontaneous generation? - Answer Redi and
Pasteur
Who developed postulates to demonstrate that microorganisms caused disease? - Answer
Koch
What are those postulates? - Answer criteria designed to have a relationship between a
microbe and a disease
Semmelweis - Answer infection control (hand-washing)
Pasteur - Answer industrial microbiology/pasteurization
Nightingale - Answer nursing
Lister - Answer antiseptic
Jenner - Answer field of immunology (vaccine)
Ehrlich - Answer chemotherapy (magic bullets)
Linnaeus - Answer taxonomy
Which domain has the molecule peptidoglycan as part of its cell wall structure? - Answer
bacteria
, biofilm - Answer mixed population of microbes growing together on surfaces
single-celled eukaryotes that feed on other organisms and have a cell wall are - Answer algae
molecular biology - Answer combines aspects of biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics to
explain cell function at the molecular level
Archaea - Answer prokaryotic, unicellular, cell wall, asexual
Bacteria - Answer prokaryotic, unicellular, cell wall, asexual
Protozoa - Answer eukaryotic, unicellular, no cell wall, both asexual and sexual
Fungi - Answer eukaryotic, unicellular and multicellular, cell wall, both asexual and sexual
(molds or yeasts)
Algae - Answer eukaryotic, unicellular and multicellular, cell wall, both asexual and sexual
virus - Answer very small, bacteriophage (attacks bacteria)
Glycocalyces - Answer purpose to protect cells from drying out
What are the two types of glycolcalyces? - Answer capsule and slime layer
capsule - Answer Firmly attached to cell surface
slime layer - Answer loosely attached to cell surface
What are the three basic shapes of bacteria? - Answer coccus, bacillus, and spiral
Describe the movement of bacterial flagella - Answer moves in response to stimuli, rotates to
propel through environment, and can be counter clockwise or clockwise
