BIOS242_FUNDAMENTALS_OF_MICROBIOLOGY_WITH_LAB_EXAM_2_PRACTICE_SOLUTION.

BIOS242 FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY
WITH LAB EXAM 2 PRACTICE SOLUTION PAPER
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

◉ Agricultural Microbiology. Answer: Study of microbes in crop and
livestock systems


◉ Public Health Microbiology & Epidemiology. Answer: Tracks
disease outbreaks and public health threats


◉ Immunology. Answer: Study of the immune system and responses
to infection


◉ Industrial Microbiology. Answer: Use of microbes in food, drugs,
and biotech


◉ Environmental Microbiology. Answer: Study of microbes in soil,
water, air, and extreme environments


◉ Louis Pasteur. Answer: Developed pasteurization, germ theory,
rabies vaccine, Swan Neck Flask experiment


◉ Robert Hooke. Answer: First person to observe microbes

, ◉ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Answer: Built microscope; observed
'animalcules' in water and teeth scrapings


◉ Robert Koch. Answer: Created postulates linking specific microbes
to diseases


◉ Ignaz Semmelweis. Answer: Linked handwashing to reduced
infections in maternity wards


◉ Joseph Lister. Answer: First to sterilize OR with antiseptics


◉ Carl von Linnaeus. Answer: Developed binomial naming system
(Genus species)


◉ Eukaryotic Cells. Answer: Have a nucleus; includes protozoa,
fungi, helminths


◉ Prokaryotic Cells. Answer: No nucleus; includes bacteria and
archaea


◉ Acellular Microbes. Answer: Viruses (DNA/RNA) and prions (no
genetic material)