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WESTCOTT MICROBIO FINAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Which of the following foods is NOT made by
fermentation?
beer
bread
cheese
orange juice - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ orange juice
Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Thucydides
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Hippocrates - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-
causing animals too small to see?
Thucydides
Marcus Terentius Varro
Hippocrates
Louis Pasteur - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Marcus Terentius
Varro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's
taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ protist
6.
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial
nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
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homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Homo sapiens
.
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Ernst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and
Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ plantae
Which of the following is the standard resource for
identifying bacteria?
Systema Naturae
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
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Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms -
....ANSWER ....✔✔ Bergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology
Which of the following types of microorganisms is
photosynthetic?
yeast
virus
helminth
alga - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ alga
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ cyanobacterium
.
Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
WESTCOTT MICROBIO FINAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Which of the following foods is NOT made by
fermentation?
beer
bread
cheese
orange juice - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ orange juice
Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Thucydides
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Hippocrates - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-
causing animals too small to see?
Thucydides
Marcus Terentius Varro
Hippocrates
Louis Pasteur - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Marcus Terentius
Varro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's
taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ protist
6.
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial
nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
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homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Homo sapiens
.
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Ernst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and
Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ plantae
Which of the following is the standard resource for
identifying bacteria?
Systema Naturae
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
, 4|Page
Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms -
....ANSWER ....✔✔ Bergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology
Which of the following types of microorganisms is
photosynthetic?
yeast
virus
helminth
alga - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ alga
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ cyanobacterium
.
Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
