UTA MICROBIOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED
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◉ Hippocrates was known as ___? Answer: the father of western
medicine
◉ What did Hippocrates believe? Answer: diseases were not caused by
supernatural reason
◉ Leeuwenhoek was known as __? Answer: the father of microbiology
◉ What did Pasteur discover and invent? Answer: discovered
fermentation, invented pasteurization, vaccines
◉ What did Koch create and develop? Answer: created a method for
connecting pathogens with a specific disease and developed vaccines
◉ Carlous Linnaeus was known as _? Answer: the father of taxonomy
◉ What did Carlous Linnaeus contribute to the tree of life? Answer:
plant and animal kingdoms
,◉ What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to the tree of life? Answer: protists
and monera kingdoms
◉ What did Robert Whittaker contribute to the tree of life? Answer:
fungi kingdom
◉ Who was the first to develop a molecular technique to phylogenetic
analysis? Answer: Woese and Fox
◉ How is nomenclature written? Answer: Genus Species
◉ Name the sub levels from least specific to most specific. Answer:
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, strain
◉ Name the types of prokaryotes. Answer: Bacteria and Archaea
◉ Name the types of eukaryotes. Answer: Algae, protozoa, fungi
helminths
◉ Name some acellular microbes. Answer: Viruses and prions
, ◉ Unicellular, Prokaryotic some have peptidoglycan cell walls and some
are photosynthetic. Answer: Bacteria
◉ Unicellular, prokaryotic pseudo-peptidoglycan wall. Answer: Archaea
◉ Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose wall. Answer: Algae
◉ Unicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall. Answer: Protozoa
◉ Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, chitin wall. Answer: Fungi
◉ Multicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall. Answer: Helminths
◉ Define wavelengths. Answer: The length between peaks
◉ Define amplitude. Answer: Height of peaks or depths of troughs
◉ Define frequency. Answer: The rate of peaks in time
◉ As wavelength ___: frequency ___. Answer: Increases, decreases
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
◉ Hippocrates was known as ___? Answer: the father of western
medicine
◉ What did Hippocrates believe? Answer: diseases were not caused by
supernatural reason
◉ Leeuwenhoek was known as __? Answer: the father of microbiology
◉ What did Pasteur discover and invent? Answer: discovered
fermentation, invented pasteurization, vaccines
◉ What did Koch create and develop? Answer: created a method for
connecting pathogens with a specific disease and developed vaccines
◉ Carlous Linnaeus was known as _? Answer: the father of taxonomy
◉ What did Carlous Linnaeus contribute to the tree of life? Answer:
plant and animal kingdoms
,◉ What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to the tree of life? Answer: protists
and monera kingdoms
◉ What did Robert Whittaker contribute to the tree of life? Answer:
fungi kingdom
◉ Who was the first to develop a molecular technique to phylogenetic
analysis? Answer: Woese and Fox
◉ How is nomenclature written? Answer: Genus Species
◉ Name the sub levels from least specific to most specific. Answer:
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, strain
◉ Name the types of prokaryotes. Answer: Bacteria and Archaea
◉ Name the types of eukaryotes. Answer: Algae, protozoa, fungi
helminths
◉ Name some acellular microbes. Answer: Viruses and prions
, ◉ Unicellular, Prokaryotic some have peptidoglycan cell walls and some
are photosynthetic. Answer: Bacteria
◉ Unicellular, prokaryotic pseudo-peptidoglycan wall. Answer: Archaea
◉ Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose wall. Answer: Algae
◉ Unicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall. Answer: Protozoa
◉ Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, chitin wall. Answer: Fungi
◉ Multicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall. Answer: Helminths
◉ Define wavelengths. Answer: The length between peaks
◉ Define amplitude. Answer: Height of peaks or depths of troughs
◉ Define frequency. Answer: The rate of peaks in time
◉ As wavelength ___: frequency ___. Answer: Increases, decreases
