Straighterline Microbiology final
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 2025/2026
Spontaneous Generation - ✔✔Disproven hypothesis that that plants, animals, and people came
from an invisible life-giving force. In application it led to the notion that diseases were caused by
curses from God or miasmas in the air.
Taxonomy - ✔✔The science of classification of biological species used to organize all of the
forms of modern and extinct life and is based on how related the biological species are to each
other
Phylogeny - ✔✔the scheme that represents the natural relatedness between groups of living
beings; used to determine taxonomy
Recombinant DNA Technology - ✔✔a technology that deliberately modifies the genetic
structure of an organism to create novel products, microbes, animals, plants and viruses; aka
genetic engineering
Tree of life or Web of Life - ✔✔a representation of the phylogenetic relationships of all
organisms on the planet; presently consists of plants, fungi, animals, protozoa, and monera
Bioremediation - ✔✔the use of microbes or consortia of microbes to decompose harmful
chemicals/pollution; one form is biostimulation
Biostimulation - ✔✔the process by which microbes in an environment are encouraged to grow
by the addition of nutrients
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 2025/2026
Spontaneous Generation - ✔✔Disproven hypothesis that that plants, animals, and people came
from an invisible life-giving force. In application it led to the notion that diseases were caused by
curses from God or miasmas in the air.
Taxonomy - ✔✔The science of classification of biological species used to organize all of the
forms of modern and extinct life and is based on how related the biological species are to each
other
Phylogeny - ✔✔the scheme that represents the natural relatedness between groups of living
beings; used to determine taxonomy
Recombinant DNA Technology - ✔✔a technology that deliberately modifies the genetic
structure of an organism to create novel products, microbes, animals, plants and viruses; aka
genetic engineering
Tree of life or Web of Life - ✔✔a representation of the phylogenetic relationships of all
organisms on the planet; presently consists of plants, fungi, animals, protozoa, and monera
Bioremediation - ✔✔the use of microbes or consortia of microbes to decompose harmful
chemicals/pollution; one form is biostimulation
Biostimulation - ✔✔the process by which microbes in an environment are encouraged to grow
by the addition of nutrients
