OpenStax Microbiology Exam Prep – Confirmed Correct Answers | Practice Questions & Study Guide

OpenStax Microbiology Exam Prep: Answers Confirmed
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Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
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A. Beer
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B. Bread
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C. Cheese
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D. Orange Juice - ✔️✔️correct answers-D
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Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
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A. Marcus Terentius Varro
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B. Thucydides
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C. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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D. Hippocrates - ✔️✔️correct answers-D
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Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope?
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A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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B. Ötzi the Iceman
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C. Marcus Terentius Varro
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D. Robert Koch - ✔️✔️correct answers-A
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Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see?
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A. Thucydides
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B. Marcus Terentius Varro
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C. Hippocrates
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D. Louis Pasteur - ✔️✔️correct answers-B
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Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
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A. animal
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C. protist
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D. plant - ✔️✔️correct answers-C
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Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature? *Imagine all answers are
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Italicized except for A*
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A. Homo Sapiens
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B. homo sapiens
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C. Homo sapiens
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D. Homo Sapiens - ✔️✔️correct answers-C
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Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
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A. Carolus Linnaeus
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B. Carl Woese
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C. Robert Whittaker
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D. Ernst Haeckel - ✔️✔️correct answers-D
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Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree?
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A. Plantae
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B. Bacteria
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C. Archaea
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D. Eukarya - ✔️✔️correct answers-A
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Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
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A. Systema Naturae
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B. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
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C. Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
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D. Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms - ✔️✔️correct answers-B
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Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
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A. yeast
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B. virus
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C. helminth
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D. alga - ✔️✔️correct answers-D
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Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
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A. helminth
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B. protozoan
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C. cyanobacterium
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D. mold - ✔️✔️correct answers-C
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Which of the following is acellular?
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A. virus
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B. bacterium
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C. fungus
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