Exam 1 UTA Microbiology/155
Questions with Answers
Microbiology - -The study of small organisms
- Hippocrates was known as ___? - -the father of western medicine
- What did Hippocrates believe? - -diseases were not caused by supernatural
reason
- Leeuwenhoek was known as __? - -the father of microbiology
- What did Pasteur discover and invent? - -discovered fermentation,
invented pasteurization, vaccines
- What did Koch create and develop? - -created a method for connecting
pathogens with a specific disease and developed vaccines
- Carlous Linnaeus was known as _? - -the father of taxonomy
- What did Carlous Linnaeus contribute to the tree of life? - -plant and animal
kingdoms
- What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to the tree of life? - -protists and monera
kingdoms
- What did Robert Whittaker contribute to the tree of life? - -fungi kingdom
- Who was the first to develop a molecular technique to phylogenetic
analysis? - -Woese and Fox
- How is nomenclature written? - -Genus Species
- Name the sub levels from least specific to most specific - -Kingdom,
phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, strain
- Name the types of prokaryotes - -Bacteria and Archaea
- Name the types of eukaryotes - -Algae, protozoa, fungi helminths
- Name some acellular microbes - -Viruses and prions
- Unicellular, Prokaryotic some have peptidoglycan cell walls and some are
photosynthetic - -Bacteria
, - Unicellular, prokaryotic pseudo-peptidoglycan wall - -Archaea
- Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose wall - -Algae
- Unicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall - -Protozoa
- Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, chitin wall - -Fungi
- Multicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall - -Helminths
- Define wavelengths - -The length between peaks
- Define amplitude - -Height of peaks or depths of troughs
- Define frequency - -The rate of peaks in time
- As wavelength ___: frequency ___ - -Increases, decreases
- When does reflection occur? - -When a wave bounces off a material
- When does absorbance occur? - -When a wave is captured and not as
much light is traveling through
- When does transmission occur? - -When a wave travels straight through a
transparent object
- When does interference occur? - -When a wave interacts with another
wave
- A wave can cancel/add to the effect of another wave? T/F - -True
- When does diffraction occur? - -When light is bend or scattered by an
object opening
- When does refraction occur? - -When light changes its direction or speed
- How can you describe the refractive index of water vs. that of glass? - -
- What is a refractive index? - -The degree of change in transmission speed
- a ___ lens will curve light to meet at a focal point - -Convex
- A ___ lens will refract light away from a focal point - -Concave
- What factors affect resolution? - -Wavelength and numerical aperture
Questions with Answers
Microbiology - -The study of small organisms
- Hippocrates was known as ___? - -the father of western medicine
- What did Hippocrates believe? - -diseases were not caused by supernatural
reason
- Leeuwenhoek was known as __? - -the father of microbiology
- What did Pasteur discover and invent? - -discovered fermentation,
invented pasteurization, vaccines
- What did Koch create and develop? - -created a method for connecting
pathogens with a specific disease and developed vaccines
- Carlous Linnaeus was known as _? - -the father of taxonomy
- What did Carlous Linnaeus contribute to the tree of life? - -plant and animal
kingdoms
- What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to the tree of life? - -protists and monera
kingdoms
- What did Robert Whittaker contribute to the tree of life? - -fungi kingdom
- Who was the first to develop a molecular technique to phylogenetic
analysis? - -Woese and Fox
- How is nomenclature written? - -Genus Species
- Name the sub levels from least specific to most specific - -Kingdom,
phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, strain
- Name the types of prokaryotes - -Bacteria and Archaea
- Name the types of eukaryotes - -Algae, protozoa, fungi helminths
- Name some acellular microbes - -Viruses and prions
- Unicellular, Prokaryotic some have peptidoglycan cell walls and some are
photosynthetic - -Bacteria
, - Unicellular, prokaryotic pseudo-peptidoglycan wall - -Archaea
- Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose wall - -Algae
- Unicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall - -Protozoa
- Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, chitin wall - -Fungi
- Multicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall - -Helminths
- Define wavelengths - -The length between peaks
- Define amplitude - -Height of peaks or depths of troughs
- Define frequency - -The rate of peaks in time
- As wavelength ___: frequency ___ - -Increases, decreases
- When does reflection occur? - -When a wave bounces off a material
- When does absorbance occur? - -When a wave is captured and not as
much light is traveling through
- When does transmission occur? - -When a wave travels straight through a
transparent object
- When does interference occur? - -When a wave interacts with another
wave
- A wave can cancel/add to the effect of another wave? T/F - -True
- When does diffraction occur? - -When light is bend or scattered by an
object opening
- When does refraction occur? - -When light changes its direction or speed
- How can you describe the refractive index of water vs. that of glass? - -
- What is a refractive index? - -The degree of change in transmission speed
- a ___ lens will curve light to meet at a focal point - -Convex
- A ___ lens will refract light away from a focal point - -Concave
- What factors affect resolution? - -Wavelength and numerical aperture
