Ace Your Exam: Westcott Microbiology Final Questions & Answers 2025 | Study Guide

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WESTCOTT MICROBIO FINAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025




Which of the following foods is NOT made by
fermentation?
beer
bread
cheese
orange juice - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ orange juice


Who is considered the "father of Western medicine"?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Thucydides
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Hippocrates - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Hippocrates


Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the
microscope?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Ötzi the Iceman

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Marcus Terentius Varro
Robert Koch - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek


Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-
causing animals too small to see?
Thucydides
Marcus Terentius Varro
Hippocrates
Louis Pasteur - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Marcus Terentius
Varro


Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's
taxonomy?
animal
mineral
protist
plant - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ protist


6.
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial
nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens

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homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Homo sapiens


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Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Ernst Haeckel


Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and
Fox's phylogenetic tree?
Plantae
Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ plantae


Which of the following is the standard resource for
identifying bacteria?
Systema Naturae
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology

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Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms -
....ANSWER ....✔✔ Bergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology


Which of the following types of microorganisms is
photosynthetic?
yeast
virus
helminth
alga - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ alga


Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ cyanobacterium


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Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium