UTA, DR. THOLEN Questions and
answers
Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
A) Beer
B) Bread
C) Cheese
D) Orange - answerD
Who is considered the ''Father of Western medicine''? - answerHippocrates
Who was the first to observe ''animalcules'' under the microscope? -
answerLeeuwenhoek
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to
see? - answerVarro
Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy?
A) Animal
B) Mineral
C) Protist
D) Plant - answerC
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
A) Homo Sapiens
B) homo sapiens
C) Homo sapiens
D) Homo Sapiens - answerC
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists? - answerHaeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogentic tree
A) Plantae
B) Bacteria
C) Archaea
D) Eukarya - answerA
Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
A) Yeast
B) Virus
C) Helminth
,D) Alga - answerD
Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
A) Helminth
B) Protozoan
C) Cyanobacterium
D) Mold - answerC
Which of the following is acellular?
A) Virus
B) Bacterium
C) Fungus
D) Protozoan - answerA
Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
A) Bacterium
B) Protozoan
C) Alga
D) Yeast - answerD
Thucydides is known as the father of? - answerScientific history
Researchers think that Ötzi the Iceman may have been infected with _____ disease -
answerLyme
The process by which microbes turn grape juice into wine is called? -
answerFermentation
In bionomial nomenclature, an organism's scientific name includes its _____ and
______ - answergenus and species
Whittaker proposed adding the kingdoms ________ and ________ to his phylogenetic
tree - answerprotista and monera
A ______ is a disease-causing microorganism - answerPathogen
Multicellular parasitic worms studied by microbiologists are called? - answerHelminths
The study of viruses is - answerVirology
The cells of prokaryotic organisms lack a _______ - answerNucleus
Which of the following has the highest energy?
A) Light with a long wavelength
B) Light with an intermediate wavelength
C) Light with a short wavelength
, D) It is impossible to tell from the information given - answerC
You place a specimen under the microscope and notice that parts of the specimen
begin to emit light immediately. These materials can be described as ____
A) Fluorescent
B) Phosphorescent
C) Transparent
D) Opaque - answerA
Who was the first to describe ''cells'' in a dead cork tissue?
A) Hans Janssen
B) Zaccharias Janssen
C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D) Robert Hooke - answerD
Who is the probable inventor of the compound microscope?
A) Girolamo Fracastoro
B) Zaccharias Janssen
C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D) Robert Hooke - answerB
Which would be the best choice for viewing internal structures of a living protist such as
a Paramecium?
A) A brightfield microscope with a stain
B) A brightfield microscope without a stain
C) A darkfield microscope
D) A trasmission electron microscope - answerC
Which type of microscope is especially useful for viewing thick structures such as
biofilms?
A) A transmission electron microscope
B) A scanning electron microscopes
C) A phase-contrast microscope
D) A confocal scanning laser microscope
E) An atomic force microscope - answerD
Which type of microscope would be the best choice for viewing very small surface
structures of a cell?
A) A transmission electron microscope
B) A scanning electron microscope
C) A brightfield microscope
D) A darkfield microscope
E) A phase-contrast microscope - answerB
What type of microscope uses an annular stop?
A) A transmission electron microscope