Micro 2050 Exam 1 Frequently Tested Actual Questions With Correct Answers

MICRO 2050 Exam 1 FREQUENTLY TESTED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Question 1.
the study of small living things; "study of entities too small to be seen with the unaided human eye"

ANSWER
Microbiology



Question 2.
study of prokaryotes

ANSWER
Bacteriology



Question 3.
study of fungi

ANSWER
Mycology



Question 4.
study of algae

ANSWER
Phycology



Question 5.
study of protozoa

ANSWER
Protozoology






,Question 6.
study of viruses

ANSWER
Virology



Question 7.
study of the immune system

ANSWER
Immunology



Question 8.
living things originate from other living things

ANSWER
Biogenesis



Question 9.
life rapidly appears from non-living things; aka abiogenesis

ANSWER
Spontaneous Generation



Question 10.
the science of classifying things

ANSWER
Taxonomy



Question 11.
favored spontaneous generation

ANSWER
Aristotle






, Question 12.
may have been the first to see microorganisms; coined the word "cell" to describe what he saw while
viewing tree bark from a cork oak

ANSWER
Robert Hooke



Question 13.
first person to accurately describe living microbes; used a simple microscope; termed microbes
"animalcules"

ANSWER
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek



Question 14.
disproved spontaneous generation of maggots

ANSWER
Francesco Redi



Question 15.
used swan-neck flasks; "Father of Microbiology"; pasteurization

ANSWER
Louis Pasteur



Question 16.
described heat-resistant microbes (endospores) from hay infusions; discontinuous heat used to
sterilize

ANSWER
John Tyndall