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15) Which type of microscopy enhances and amplifies slight changes in the phase of transmitted
light?
A) Differential interference contrast microscopy
B) Digital video microscopy
C) Fluorescence microscopy
D) Phase-contrast microscopy
E) Both differential interference contrast microscopy and phase-contrast microscopy
Answer: E
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-PS
16) Which type of microscopy has the greatest resolving power?
A) Electron microscopy
B) Phase-contrast microscopy
C) Fluorescence microscopy
D) Digital video microscopy
E) Confocal scanning microscopy
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-PS
17) Which of the following can only be viewed by electron microscopy?
A) Frog eggs
B) DNA
C) Nuclei
D) Mitochondria
E) Prokaryotes
Answer: B
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-SF
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18) Which of the following types of light microscopy improves the resolution of thick specimens
by illuminating one plane of the specimen at a time?
A) Fluorescence microscopy
B) Phase-contrast microscopy
C) Confocal microscopy
D) Differential interference contrast microscopy
E) Brightfield microscopy
Answer: C
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-SF
19) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is especially suited to
A) observing living specimens.
B) examining internal cellular structure.
C) creating a sense of depth.
D) both observing living specimens and creating a sense of depth.
E) simultaneously observing living specimens, examining internal cellular structure, and creating
a sense of depth.
Answer: C
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G2
V&C LO: VC-SF
20) Melvin Calvin and his colleagues used which of the following to deduce the steps in the
Calvin cycle?
A) Negative staining
B) Drosophila melanogaster
C) Electron microscopy
D) Ultracentrifugation
E) Radioisotopes
Answer: E
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-PS
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21) The classic work of Friedrich Wöhler (1828) that united the fields of biology and chemistry
was based on the
A) discovery of yeast ferments.
B) production of urea in the laboratory.
C) discovery of ATP.
D) identification of nucleotide bases.
E) analysis of gene segregation.
Answer: B
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-SF
22) You wish to obtain a purified sample of mitochondria from lysed cells. The best way to
obtain this sample would be
A) centrifugation.
B) chromatography.
C) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
D) agarose gel electrophoresis.
E) both centrifugation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G2, G7
V&C LO: VC-PS
23) 1 mm = nm
A) 1,000,000
B) 1000
C) 10
D) 1/1000
E) 1/1,000,000
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-QR
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24) The outcome of the joining of cytology and biochemistry yielded a better understanding of
the cell by
A) identification of cellular structures.
B) identification of cellular biochemical pathways.
C) creating bioinformatics.
D) identification of cellular structures and biochemical pathways.
E) identification of biochemical pathways and creating bioinformatics.
Answer: D
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluating/Creating
Learning Outcome: 1.1
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-PS
25) Wöhler revolutionized biology through his demonstration that biological molecules are
governed by the ordinary laws of physics and chemistry. He demonstrated this principle by
A) synthesizing urea in the laboratory from ammonium cyanate.
B) developing techniques for isolating, purifying, and analyzing subcomponents of cells.
C) defining the laws of heredity.
D) discovering active agents in cell extracts that were specific biological catalysts that have since
come to be called enzymes.
E) inventing mass spectrometry which is commonly used to determine the size and composition
of individual proteins.
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-SF
26) Gregor Mendel was most influential in which field of biology?
A) Genetics
B) Chromatography
C) Biochemistry
D) Prokaryotic transformation
E) Cytology
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-SF
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15) Which type of microscopy enhances and amplifies slight changes in the phase of transmitted
light?
A) Differential interference contrast microscopy
B) Digital video microscopy
C) Fluorescence microscopy
D) Phase-contrast microscopy
E) Both differential interference contrast microscopy and phase-contrast microscopy
Answer: E
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-PS
16) Which type of microscopy has the greatest resolving power?
A) Electron microscopy
B) Phase-contrast microscopy
C) Fluorescence microscopy
D) Digital video microscopy
E) Confocal scanning microscopy
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-PS
17) Which of the following can only be viewed by electron microscopy?
A) Frog eggs
B) DNA
C) Nuclei
D) Mitochondria
E) Prokaryotes
Answer: B
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-SF
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18) Which of the following types of light microscopy improves the resolution of thick specimens
by illuminating one plane of the specimen at a time?
A) Fluorescence microscopy
B) Phase-contrast microscopy
C) Confocal microscopy
D) Differential interference contrast microscopy
E) Brightfield microscopy
Answer: C
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-SF
19) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is especially suited to
A) observing living specimens.
B) examining internal cellular structure.
C) creating a sense of depth.
D) both observing living specimens and creating a sense of depth.
E) simultaneously observing living specimens, examining internal cellular structure, and creating
a sense of depth.
Answer: C
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G2
V&C LO: VC-SF
20) Melvin Calvin and his colleagues used which of the following to deduce the steps in the
Calvin cycle?
A) Negative staining
B) Drosophila melanogaster
C) Electron microscopy
D) Ultracentrifugation
E) Radioisotopes
Answer: E
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-PS
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21) The classic work of Friedrich Wöhler (1828) that united the fields of biology and chemistry
was based on the
A) discovery of yeast ferments.
B) production of urea in the laboratory.
C) discovery of ATP.
D) identification of nucleotide bases.
E) analysis of gene segregation.
Answer: B
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-SF
22) You wish to obtain a purified sample of mitochondria from lysed cells. The best way to
obtain this sample would be
A) centrifugation.
B) chromatography.
C) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
D) agarose gel electrophoresis.
E) both centrifugation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G2, G7
V&C LO: VC-PS
23) 1 mm = nm
A) 1,000,000
B) 1000
C) 10
D) 1/1000
E) 1/1,000,000
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.2
Global LO: G4
V&C LO: VC-QR
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24) The outcome of the joining of cytology and biochemistry yielded a better understanding of
the cell by
A) identification of cellular structures.
B) identification of cellular biochemical pathways.
C) creating bioinformatics.
D) identification of cellular structures and biochemical pathways.
E) identification of biochemical pathways and creating bioinformatics.
Answer: D
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluating/Creating
Learning Outcome: 1.1
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-PS
25) Wöhler revolutionized biology through his demonstration that biological molecules are
governed by the ordinary laws of physics and chemistry. He demonstrated this principle by
A) synthesizing urea in the laboratory from ammonium cyanate.
B) developing techniques for isolating, purifying, and analyzing subcomponents of cells.
C) defining the laws of heredity.
D) discovering active agents in cell extracts that were specific biological catalysts that have since
come to be called enzymes.
E) inventing mass spectrometry which is commonly used to determine the size and composition
of individual proteins.
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-SF
26) Gregor Mendel was most influential in which field of biology?
A) Genetics
B) Chromatography
C) Biochemistry
D) Prokaryotic transformation
E) Cytology
Answer: A
Chapter Section: 1.2
Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding
Learning Outcome: 1.1
Global LO: G1
V&C LO: VC-SF
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