MICROBIOLOGY 2215 CSCC UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE

MICROBIOLOGY 2215 CSCC UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE

●● What are microorganisms (microbes)?
Answer: Organisms to small to be seen with the naked eye


●● What are the major groups of microorganisms?
Answer: 1. Bacteria
2. Algae
3. Protozoa
4. Helminths
5. Fungi
6. Viruses


●● Prokaryotes with peptidoglycan in their cell walls and circular
chromosomes are classified as ______.
Answer: Bacteria


●● Photosynthetic plant-like organisms are classified as ______.
Answer: Algae

,●● Single-celled eukaryotic organisms are classified as ______.
Answer: Protozoa


●● Parasitic inverterbrates(worms) are classified as ______.
Answer: Helminthes


●● Non-cellular, parasitic, protein-coated genetic elements that can
infect all living things including other microorganisms are classified as
______.
Answer: Viruses


●● What appeared first: prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
Answer: prokaryotes


●● What are the three domains of living things?
Answer: 1. Bacteria
2. Archaea
3. Eukarya


●● Bacteria and archaea are both classified as what type of cell?
Answer: prokaryote


●● Which types of cells utilize binary fission to replicate?

, Answer: Bacteria and archaea


●● What cell do we see prominent shapes such as rod-shaped, spherical
and spiral?
Answer: Bacteria


●● What types of cell are the most common type in human infection?
Answer: Bacteria


●● What features distinguish archaea from baceria?
Answer: -Chemical composition of cell wall


-Archaea are usually found in extreme environments (extremophiles)


●● What are key features of eucarya?
Answer: -Membrane bound nucleus
-Organelles
-Single and/or multicellular


●● What is the cellular organization of Algae?
Answer: Single or multicellular