UTA MICROBIOLOGY 2460 PRACTICE EXAM
2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◉ Miasma Theory. Answer: Ancient Greeks blamed diseases on "bad
air"
◉ Hippocrates. Answer: Father of western medicine, said diseases was
not caused by supernatural forces, Hippocratic corpus and oath used
today
◉ Thucydides. Answer: Father of science history, Athenian plague, early
concept of immunity
◉ Marcus Terentius Varro. Answer: Proposed that things we cannot see
could cause disease, Res. Rusticae is his book over minute creatures in
water/air, animals minute (microbes)
◉ Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek. Answer: Used magnifying lens to observe
"animalcules" in rain drop, "father of microbiology"
◉ Who are the 2 Golden Age of Microbiology scientists? Answer: Louis
Pasteur and Robert Koch
,◉ Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. Answer: Made a lot of contributions
and developments which advanced microbiology, competition between
the 2 propelled the study of microbiology
◉ Louis Pasteur. Answer: Fermentation and spoilage caused by
microbes, pasteurization, vaccines (rabies)
◉ Robert Koch. Answer: German physician, establish method for
connecting pathogens with a
specific disease, Koch's postulates, anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis
◉ Carolus Linnaeus. Answer: Developed new way to categorize plants
and animals
◉ Ernst Haeckel. Answer: Wrote general morphology of organisms,
proposed 4 kingdoms (animals, plants, protists, and monera)
◉ Robert Whittaker. Answer: Proposed adding 5th kingdom of fungi
◉ Woese and Fix. Answer: Scientists who implemented molecular
techniques to phylogenetic analysis instead of just observable traits
◉ Prokaryotes. Answer: Bacteria and archaea
, ◉ Eukaryotes. Answer: Algae, fungi, protozoa, and helminths
◉ Acellular microbes. Answer: Viruses and prions
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Coccus. Answer: Spherical
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Bacillus. Answer: Rod shaped
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Vibrio. Answer: Slightly curved
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Coccobacillus. Answer: Part sphere, part
rod
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Spirillum. Answer: Curve/wave
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Spirichete. Answer: Twisted, spiral
◉ Archae. Answer: Unicellular, psuedopeptidoglycan cell wall, live in
extreme environments
◉ Protists: Algae + Protozoa. Answer: Unicellular eukaryotes with no
cell wall
2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◉ Miasma Theory. Answer: Ancient Greeks blamed diseases on "bad
air"
◉ Hippocrates. Answer: Father of western medicine, said diseases was
not caused by supernatural forces, Hippocratic corpus and oath used
today
◉ Thucydides. Answer: Father of science history, Athenian plague, early
concept of immunity
◉ Marcus Terentius Varro. Answer: Proposed that things we cannot see
could cause disease, Res. Rusticae is his book over minute creatures in
water/air, animals minute (microbes)
◉ Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek. Answer: Used magnifying lens to observe
"animalcules" in rain drop, "father of microbiology"
◉ Who are the 2 Golden Age of Microbiology scientists? Answer: Louis
Pasteur and Robert Koch
,◉ Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. Answer: Made a lot of contributions
and developments which advanced microbiology, competition between
the 2 propelled the study of microbiology
◉ Louis Pasteur. Answer: Fermentation and spoilage caused by
microbes, pasteurization, vaccines (rabies)
◉ Robert Koch. Answer: German physician, establish method for
connecting pathogens with a
specific disease, Koch's postulates, anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis
◉ Carolus Linnaeus. Answer: Developed new way to categorize plants
and animals
◉ Ernst Haeckel. Answer: Wrote general morphology of organisms,
proposed 4 kingdoms (animals, plants, protists, and monera)
◉ Robert Whittaker. Answer: Proposed adding 5th kingdom of fungi
◉ Woese and Fix. Answer: Scientists who implemented molecular
techniques to phylogenetic analysis instead of just observable traits
◉ Prokaryotes. Answer: Bacteria and archaea
, ◉ Eukaryotes. Answer: Algae, fungi, protozoa, and helminths
◉ Acellular microbes. Answer: Viruses and prions
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Coccus. Answer: Spherical
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Bacillus. Answer: Rod shaped
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Vibrio. Answer: Slightly curved
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Coccobacillus. Answer: Part sphere, part
rod
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Spirillum. Answer: Curve/wave
◉ Bacterial common shapes: Spirichete. Answer: Twisted, spiral
◉ Archae. Answer: Unicellular, psuedopeptidoglycan cell wall, live in
extreme environments
◉ Protists: Algae + Protozoa. Answer: Unicellular eukaryotes with no
cell wall
