Test Bank for Prescott's Principles of Microbiology (Updated Edition)
This Test Bank is designed to accompany Prescott's Principles of Microbiology, providing students with a comprehensive set of practice questions to reinforce their understanding of microbiology concepts. It includes multiple-cho...
1. Which of the following distinguish the field of microbiology from other fields of biology?
A. The size of the organism studied
B. The techniques used to study organisms regardless of their size
C. Both the size of the organism studied and the techniques employed in the study of organisms
D. Neither the size of the organism studied nor the techniques employed in the study of organisms
regardless of their size
2. Who of the following developed a set of criteria that could be used to establish a causative link
between a particular microorganism and a particular disease?
A. Fracastoro
B. Koch
C. Pasteur
D. Lister
3. Who of the following was the first to observe and accurately describe microorganisms?
, A. Pasteur
B. Lister
C. Van Leeuwenhoek
D. Tyndall
4. Who of the following provided the evidence needed to discredit the concept of spontaneous
generation?
A. Pasteur
B. Koch
C. Semmelweiss
D. Lister
5. The ribosomal RNA studies that led to the division of procaryotic organisms into the Bacteria and
the Archea were begun by
A. Pasteur
B. Woese
C. Needham
D. Watson
, 6. The concept that living organisms arise from nonliving material is called
A. Biogenesis
B. Cell theory
C. Spontaneous generation
D. Germ theory
7. Cells with a relatively simple cell morphology that do not have a true membrane-delimited nucleus
are called
A. Procaryotes
B. Eucaryotes
C. Urcaryotes
D. Nocaryotes
8. The concept that human and animal diseases are caused by microorganisms is called the
A. Cell theory
B. Germ theory
C. Causative theory
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