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FINAL westcott microbio Questions and
Correct Answers
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?

beer

bread

cheese

orange juice Ans: orange juice

Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?

Marcus Terentius Varro

Thucydides

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Hippocrates Ans: Hippocrates

Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Ötzi the Iceman



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Marcus Terentius Varro

Robert Koch Ans: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing
animals too small to see?

Thucydides

Marcus Terentius Varro

Hippocrates

Louis Pasteur Ans: Marcus Terentius Varro

Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's
taxonomy?

animal

mineral

protist

plant Ans: protist

6.

Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial
nomenclature?

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Homo Sapiens

homo sapiens

Homo sapiens

Homo Sapiens Ans: Homo sapiens

.

Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?

Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Woese

Robert Whittaker

Ernst Haeckel Ans: Ernst Haeckel

Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's
phylogenetic tree?

Plantae

Bacteria

Archaea

Eukarya Ans: plantae


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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 Ans: Bergey's Manual
of Determinative Bacteriology

Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?

yeast

virus

helminth

alga Ans: alga

Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?

helminth

protozoan

cyanobacterium



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