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Test Bank For Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 16th Global Edition by Madigan, ISBN: 9781292404790, All 34 Chapters Covered, Verified Latest Edition 2024/2025 Update $20.49
Test Bank For Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 16th Global Edition by Madigan, ISBN: 9781292404790, All 34 Chapters Covered, Verified Latest Edition 2024/2025 Update
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1.1 Multiple Choice Questions aa aa
1) Which of the following statements is FALSE?
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A) Microbial cells can exist as single cells.
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B) Microbial cells carry out their life processes of growth independently.
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C) Microbial cells include both bacteria and viruses.
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D) Microbial cells are surrounded by a plasma membrane.
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2) Which of the following statements is correct?
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A) Microorganisms are significant contributors to the total biomass on Earth. aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
B) Microorganisms represent a much smaller amount of Earth’s biomass than plants.
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C) Microorganisms represent a much smaller amount of Earth’s biomass than animals.
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D) Microorganisms are significant in number, but not in overall biomass. aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
3) Differential selection and reproduction of phenotypes occurs during a process called
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A) cellular differentiation. aa
B) evolution.
C) growth.
D) transformation.
4) In what/which domain(s) of life is/are microorganisms represented?
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A) Archaea
B) Bacteria
C) Eukarya
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5) Biological catalysts involved in the acceleration of the rate of chemical reactions are called
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A) catalytic converters. aa
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D) enzymes.
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A) microbial life existed for billions of years before plant and animal life.
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B) microbial life existed long before animals but has been around for about the same amount of time as plants.
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C) microbial life, plant life, and animal life all appeared at about the same time.
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D) it is impossible to determine which type of life first appeared.
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,7) The person who described the “wee animalcules” was
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A) Robert Hooke. aa
B) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. aa aa
C) Louis Pasteur.aa
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8) Walther Hesse and aa aa pioneered the use of agar as a solidifying agent.
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9) Which of the following is/are characteristic of all cellular organisms?
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A) communication
B) evolution
C) motility
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10) Deduce why viruses are excluded from the ribosomal RNA—based tree of life.
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A) Some viruses contain multiple strands of RNA.
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B) Their genetic elements cannot be sequenced.
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C) They can infect other organisms, which complicates the genetic comparisons.
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D) They lack ribosomal RNA (rRNA).
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11) Louis Pasteur developed the vaccine(s) for
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12) The discovery of antibiotics and other important chemicals led to the field of
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A) industrial microbiology. aa
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C) marine microbiology. aa
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13) Microbial sterilization is used to aa aa aa aa
A) decrease the possibility of contaminants growing in a culture.
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B) kill bacteria but not necessarily viruses or other microbes.
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C) kill all microbes in or on objects.
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D) clean a work area.
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14) Transparent double-sided dishes used for growing microbes are most commonly called
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15) Microbes playing a role in nitrogen fixation in plants live in
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ofcertain herbivores live in
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16) Which of the following is NOT an accomplishment of Louis Pasteur?
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A) determined that the alcohol-making process was mediated by microbial fermentation and thus refuted the
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theory ofspontaneous generation
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C) developed heat sterilization techniques that involved the creation of a specialized swan-necked flask
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D) developed the first rabies vaccine and treated thousands of individuals
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17) The theory of spontaneous generation was refuted by the work of
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18) A Pasteur flask has a(n)
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A) swan neck to prevent particulate matter from getting into the main body of the flask.
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B) double neck so two substances may be added at the same time.
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D) inverted upper edge to prevent spillage while swirling.
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19) Predict how Pasteur’s conclusions on spontaneous generation with swan flasks would have changed if he worked with
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andmaintained the flasks in a sterile laminar flow hood.
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A) Sterilization of the swan flask solutions would not have been necessary to reject spontaneous generation. If he did
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sterilizethe flasks, the spontaneous generation hypothesis would have been supported.
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B) His incubation times would not have been sufficient to refute spontaneous generation.
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C) Pasteur’s flasks never would have putrefied, and the experiment would not have refuted spontaneous generation.
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D) Viruses would have still been present, and his conclusion would have been unchanged.
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