TEST BANK NESTER'S MICROBIOLOGY: A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE EXAM 10TH EDITION LATEST UPDATE BY Denise Anderson, Sarah Salm, Mira Beins, Eugene Nester and Deborah Allen

TEST BANK NESTER'S MICROBIOLOGY: A HUMAN
PERSPECTIVE EXAM 10TH EDITION LATEST UPDATE
BY Denise Anderson, Sarah Salm, Mira Beins, Eugene
Nester and Deborah Allen

,TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.




1) Spontaneous generation refers to the idea that organisms came from other organisms.
⊚ true
⊚ false




2) The human body only contains bacteria during illness.
⊚ true
⊚ false




3) Bacteria and eukarya both contain membrane-bound organelles.
⊚ true
⊚ false




4) The scientific name of an organism indicates its domain.
⊚ true
⊚ false




5) Viroids are naked (lacking a protein shell) pieces of RNA that infect plants.
⊚ true
⊚ false




6) Viruses simultaneously contain DNA, RNA, and protein.


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, ⊚ true
⊚ false




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, 7) Viruses, viroids, and prions are obligate intracellular agents.
⊚ true
⊚ false




8) Viruses and bacteria are both unicellular.
⊚ true
⊚ false




9) An organism is categorized in a domain according to its cell size.
⊚ true
⊚ false




10) Archaea are very similar to bacteria and have rigid cell walls made of peptidoglycan.
⊚ true
⊚ false




11) Thiomargarita namibiensis cannot be a eukaryote because it is only 1 mm in width.
⊚ true
⊚ false




MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
12) The scientist usually credited with seeing the first microorganisms, which he called
"animalcules", was .




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