FINAL Westcott micro bio Questions and Answers 100% Accurate

FINAL Westcott micro bio

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
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 - answerMarcus Terentius Varro

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

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Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
Homo Sapiens
homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens - answerHomo sapiens

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Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?

,Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Woese
Robert Whittaker
Ernst Haeckel - answerErnst Haeckel

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

Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
Systema Naturae
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree
Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms - answerBergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology

Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
yeast
virus
helminth
alga - answeralga

Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
helminth
protozoan
cyanobacterium
mold - answercyanobacterium

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Which of the following is acellular?
virus
bacterium
fungus
protozoan - answervirus

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Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
bacterium
protozoan
alga
yeast - answeryeast

Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
bacteriology

,botany
clinical microbiology
virology - answerbotany

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Which of the following has the highest energy?
light with a long wavelength
light with an intermediate wavelength
light with a short wavelength
It is impossible to tell from the information given. - answerlight with a short wavelength

You place a specimen under the microscope and notice that parts of the specimen
begin to emit light immediately. These materials can be described as _____________.
fluorescent
phosphorescent
transparent
opaque - answerfluorescent

Who was the first to describe "cells" in dead cork tissue?
Hans Janssen
Zaccharias Janssen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke - answerrobert hooke

Who is the probable inventor of the compound microscope?
Girolamo Fracastoro
Zaccharias Janssen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke - answerZaccharias Janssen

Which would be the best choice for viewing internal structures of a living protist such as
a Paramecium?
a brightfield microscope with a stain
a brightfield microscope without a stain
a darkfield microscope
a transmission electron microscope - answerdarkfield microscope

Which type of microscope is especially useful for viewing thick structures such as
biofilms?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscopes
a phase-contrast microscope
a confocal scanning laser microscope
an atomic force microscope - answera confocal scanning laser microscope

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, Which type of microscope would be the best choice for viewing very small surface
structures of a cell?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscope
a brightfield microscope
a darkfield microscope
a phase-contrast microscope - answera scanning electron microscope

What type of microscope uses an annular stop?
a transmission electron microscope
a scanning electron microscope
a brightfield microscope
a darkfield microscope
a phase-contrast microscope - answera phase contrast microscrope

What mordant is used in Gram staining?
crystal violet
safranin
acid-alcohol
iodine - answeriodine

What is one difference between specimen preparation for a transmission electron
microscope (TEM) and preparation for a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
Only the TEM specimen requires sputter coating.
Only the SEM specimen requires sputter-coating.
Only the TEM specimen must be dehydrated.
Only the SEM specimen must be dehydrated. - answeronly sem specimen requires
sputter-coating

Which of the following individuals argued in favor of the theory of spontaneous
generation?
Francesco Redi
Louis Pasteur
John Needham
Lazzaro Spallanzani - answerjohn needman

Which of the following individuals is credited for definitively refuting the theory of
spontaneous generation using broth in swan-neck flask?
Aristotle
Jan Baptista van Helmont
John Needham
Louis Pasteur - answerlouis pasteur

Which of the following scientists experimented with raw meat, maggots, and flies in an
attempt to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?
Aristotle