MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
Microorganism - CORRECT ANSWER -Living things that are ordinarily too small to be seen
without magnification
Examples of Microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER -Cyanobacteria, viruses, fungi, protizoa,
bacteria, algae
Micrometer - CORRECT ANSWER -1.0 x 10^-6
Nanometer - CORRECT ANSWER -1.0 x 10^-9 meter
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER -A tentative explanation for what has been observed or
measured. This explanation must be supported or discredited by experimentation.
Prokaryote - CORRECT ANSWER -Small microorganisms. Bacteria and Achea
Eukaryote - CORRECT ANSWER -Small Microorganisms. Fungi, Algae, Protizoa, Helminths
Biogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER -The theory that living things arose from other living things of
their same kind.
Abiogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER -The theory that living things arose from vital forces within
nonliving matter.
Louis Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWER -Disproved abiogenesis through food spoilage. microbes on
dust particles in air, land on the food, and cause it to spoil.
, Binomial Nomenclature - CORRECT ANSWER -The two-name naming system used by scientists
called taxonomy. It uses the genus and the species to categorize each organism into its unique
species.
Sterilization - CORRECT ANSWER -An aseptic technique in which there are no living organisms
on a surface
The 5 Is - CORRECT ANSWER -Sample
Innoculate
Incubate
Isolate
Inspect
Identify
Sample - CORRECT ANSWER -A small sample of an organism or species that will be incubated
and grown for observation through the 5 I's.
Could be tissue or fluid
Inoculate - CORRECT ANSWER -To put your sample into a growth environment.
growth medium - CORRECT ANSWER -can be liquid, solid, semi-solid and must contain all
nutrients for growth of a bacterial species.
Incubate - CORRECT ANSWER -Growth and isolation of the bacteria through. To set the
environment
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
Microorganism - CORRECT ANSWER -Living things that are ordinarily too small to be seen
without magnification
Examples of Microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER -Cyanobacteria, viruses, fungi, protizoa,
bacteria, algae
Micrometer - CORRECT ANSWER -1.0 x 10^-6
Nanometer - CORRECT ANSWER -1.0 x 10^-9 meter
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER -A tentative explanation for what has been observed or
measured. This explanation must be supported or discredited by experimentation.
Prokaryote - CORRECT ANSWER -Small microorganisms. Bacteria and Achea
Eukaryote - CORRECT ANSWER -Small Microorganisms. Fungi, Algae, Protizoa, Helminths
Biogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER -The theory that living things arose from other living things of
their same kind.
Abiogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER -The theory that living things arose from vital forces within
nonliving matter.
Louis Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWER -Disproved abiogenesis through food spoilage. microbes on
dust particles in air, land on the food, and cause it to spoil.
, Binomial Nomenclature - CORRECT ANSWER -The two-name naming system used by scientists
called taxonomy. It uses the genus and the species to categorize each organism into its unique
species.
Sterilization - CORRECT ANSWER -An aseptic technique in which there are no living organisms
on a surface
The 5 Is - CORRECT ANSWER -Sample
Innoculate
Incubate
Isolate
Inspect
Identify
Sample - CORRECT ANSWER -A small sample of an organism or species that will be incubated
and grown for observation through the 5 I's.
Could be tissue or fluid
Inoculate - CORRECT ANSWER -To put your sample into a growth environment.
growth medium - CORRECT ANSWER -can be liquid, solid, semi-solid and must contain all
nutrients for growth of a bacterial species.
Incubate - CORRECT ANSWER -Growth and isolation of the bacteria through. To set the
environment
