MICROBIOLOGY EXAM 1 CHAPTERS 1-4 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person in history to... - Answers - ...view
protozoa and bacteria called ANIMALCULES.
Who developed the technique of vaccination to prevent smallpox? - Answers - Edward
Jenner
Who advocated handwashing to prevent puerperal sepsis? - Answers - Ignaz
Semmelweis
Who is responsible for infection control and epidemiology? - Answers - John Snow
Who disproved spontaneous generation? - Answers - Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch was involved in research on all of the following topics except...
A) the cause of anthrax.
B) the cause of fermentation.
C) development of a method to prove the cause of an infectious disease.
D) the cause of tuberculosis.
E) techniques for isolating microbes in the laboratory. - Answers - ...the cause of
fermentation.
The microbial production of alcohol from sugar is known as? - Answers - Fermentation
Microorganisms characterized by the absence of a nucleus are called? - Answers -
Prokaryotes
The microbes commonly known as _____ are single-celled eukaryotes that possess no
cell wall and are generally motile. - Answers - Protozoa
Which of the following statements about fungi is false?
A) Fungi are eukaryotes.
B) Molds form hyphae.
C) Fungi have a cell wall.
D) Fungi are photosynthetic.
E) Yeasts are unicellular - Answers - Fungi are photosynthetic.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of protozoa?
AND ANSWERS
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person in history to... - Answers - ...view
protozoa and bacteria called ANIMALCULES.
Who developed the technique of vaccination to prevent smallpox? - Answers - Edward
Jenner
Who advocated handwashing to prevent puerperal sepsis? - Answers - Ignaz
Semmelweis
Who is responsible for infection control and epidemiology? - Answers - John Snow
Who disproved spontaneous generation? - Answers - Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch was involved in research on all of the following topics except...
A) the cause of anthrax.
B) the cause of fermentation.
C) development of a method to prove the cause of an infectious disease.
D) the cause of tuberculosis.
E) techniques for isolating microbes in the laboratory. - Answers - ...the cause of
fermentation.
The microbial production of alcohol from sugar is known as? - Answers - Fermentation
Microorganisms characterized by the absence of a nucleus are called? - Answers -
Prokaryotes
The microbes commonly known as _____ are single-celled eukaryotes that possess no
cell wall and are generally motile. - Answers - Protozoa
Which of the following statements about fungi is false?
A) Fungi are eukaryotes.
B) Molds form hyphae.
C) Fungi have a cell wall.
D) Fungi are photosynthetic.
E) Yeasts are unicellular - Answers - Fungi are photosynthetic.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of protozoa?
