IUPUI Microbiology Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - CORRECT ANSWER - Discovered bacteria with the
microscope/Innovated the first microscope
Leeuwenhoek Microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER - Fungi, Protozoa, Algae, Bacteria,
Archaea, Small multicellular animals
Carolus Linnaeus - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of taxonomy
Pasteur's experiment - CORRECT ANSWER - Development of scientific method
Francesco Reid's Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER - Meat sealed from flies, maggots never
developed. Meat exposed to flies was soon infested.
Ignaz Semmelweiss - CORRECT ANSWER - Hand washing
Robert Koch developed.. - CORRECT ANSWER - germ theory of disease
Koch's Postulates - CORRECT ANSWER - - Suspected causative agent must be found in
every case of the disease and be absent from healthy hosts
- Agent must be isolated and grown outside the host
- When agent is introduced into a healthy, susceptible host, the host must get the disease
- Same agent must be found in the diseased experimental host
Joseph Lister - CORRECT ANSWER - Antiseptic surgical technique
, Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - Nursing
John Snow - CORRECT ANSWER - infection control and epidemiology
Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER - Field of immunology
Serology - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of blood serum
Immunology - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of the body's defense against specific
pathogens
Alexander Fleming - CORRECT ANSWER - Discovered penicillin
Gerhard Domagk - CORRECT ANSWER - Discovered sulfa drugs
Bacteria - CORRECT ANSWER - Prokaryotic (mostly free living)
Fungi - CORRECT ANSWER - Eukaryotic (free living)
Protozoa - CORRECT ANSWER - Eukaryotic (mostly free living)
Viruses - CORRECT ANSWER - Strictly intracellular
Which class of organisms is characterized by its inability to neutralize superoxides? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Obligate anaerobes
Smallest unit of length - CORRECT ANSWER - Microns
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - CORRECT ANSWER - Discovered bacteria with the
microscope/Innovated the first microscope
Leeuwenhoek Microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER - Fungi, Protozoa, Algae, Bacteria,
Archaea, Small multicellular animals
Carolus Linnaeus - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of taxonomy
Pasteur's experiment - CORRECT ANSWER - Development of scientific method
Francesco Reid's Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER - Meat sealed from flies, maggots never
developed. Meat exposed to flies was soon infested.
Ignaz Semmelweiss - CORRECT ANSWER - Hand washing
Robert Koch developed.. - CORRECT ANSWER - germ theory of disease
Koch's Postulates - CORRECT ANSWER - - Suspected causative agent must be found in
every case of the disease and be absent from healthy hosts
- Agent must be isolated and grown outside the host
- When agent is introduced into a healthy, susceptible host, the host must get the disease
- Same agent must be found in the diseased experimental host
Joseph Lister - CORRECT ANSWER - Antiseptic surgical technique
, Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - Nursing
John Snow - CORRECT ANSWER - infection control and epidemiology
Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER - Field of immunology
Serology - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of blood serum
Immunology - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of the body's defense against specific
pathogens
Alexander Fleming - CORRECT ANSWER - Discovered penicillin
Gerhard Domagk - CORRECT ANSWER - Discovered sulfa drugs
Bacteria - CORRECT ANSWER - Prokaryotic (mostly free living)
Fungi - CORRECT ANSWER - Eukaryotic (free living)
Protozoa - CORRECT ANSWER - Eukaryotic (mostly free living)
Viruses - CORRECT ANSWER - Strictly intracellular
Which class of organisms is characterized by its inability to neutralize superoxides? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Obligate anaerobes
Smallest unit of length - CORRECT ANSWER - Microns
