IUPUI MICROBIOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE
TEST SCRIPT 1 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Animalcules.
Answer: little animals, fungi, algae, & single- cell protozoa
●● The 19th Century organisms were called...?.
Answer: Microorganisms
●● Nosomial infections.
Answer: spread threw medical personal such as in hospital
●● Prevention.
Answer: how you stop yourself from getting infected?
- Vaccination, hand washing
●● Virulence Factors and pathogenicity.
Answer: an environment in which a disease can grow.
●● microbial antagonism.
,Answer: how do you get rid of microbial infection.
●● enzymes.
Answer: molecules that function as biological catalysts, increasing the
rate of a reaction without being consumed by the reaction
●● Immune system.
Answer: hosts response to the microbial disease (fever)
●● aseptic technique.
Answer: prevent the patient from infecting yourself, or infect the patient
●● Leeuwenhoek 6 categories.
Answer: - Fungi
- protozoa
- Algae
- bacteria
- archaea
- small multicellular animals
●● Who made the Taxonomic system?.
Answer: Carolus Linnaeus, naming plants and animals and grouping
similar organisms together
, ●● What questions do scientists ask?.
Answer: - what causes disease?
- how can you prevent infection and disease?
- what causesfermentation?
- is spontaneous generation of microbial life possible?
●● Aristotle proposed what?.
Answer: that living things cannot arise from nonliving things.
●● Francesco Redi's experiment.
Answer: This picture explains that living things do not appear from
nothing, they have to have open air.
●● Louis pasteur.
Answer: A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill
bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer.
●● Scientific Method.
Answer: debate over spontaneous generation led in part to development
of this.
- observation leads to questions
- question generates hypothesis
TEST SCRIPT 1 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Animalcules.
Answer: little animals, fungi, algae, & single- cell protozoa
●● The 19th Century organisms were called...?.
Answer: Microorganisms
●● Nosomial infections.
Answer: spread threw medical personal such as in hospital
●● Prevention.
Answer: how you stop yourself from getting infected?
- Vaccination, hand washing
●● Virulence Factors and pathogenicity.
Answer: an environment in which a disease can grow.
●● microbial antagonism.
,Answer: how do you get rid of microbial infection.
●● enzymes.
Answer: molecules that function as biological catalysts, increasing the
rate of a reaction without being consumed by the reaction
●● Immune system.
Answer: hosts response to the microbial disease (fever)
●● aseptic technique.
Answer: prevent the patient from infecting yourself, or infect the patient
●● Leeuwenhoek 6 categories.
Answer: - Fungi
- protozoa
- Algae
- bacteria
- archaea
- small multicellular animals
●● Who made the Taxonomic system?.
Answer: Carolus Linnaeus, naming plants and animals and grouping
similar organisms together
, ●● What questions do scientists ask?.
Answer: - what causes disease?
- how can you prevent infection and disease?
- what causesfermentation?
- is spontaneous generation of microbial life possible?
●● Aristotle proposed what?.
Answer: that living things cannot arise from nonliving things.
●● Francesco Redi's experiment.
Answer: This picture explains that living things do not appear from
nothing, they have to have open air.
●● Louis pasteur.
Answer: A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill
bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer.
●● Scientific Method.
Answer: debate over spontaneous generation led in part to development
of this.
- observation leads to questions
- question generates hypothesis
