TEST BANK FOR MICROBIOLOGY WITH DISEASES
BY BODY SYSTEM 5TH EDITION BY BAUMAN,
CHAPTERS 1 - 26 COVERED
1. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person in history to:
A) Use a magnifying glass
B) Develop a taxonomic system
C) View microorganisms and record these observations
D) Disprove spontaneous generation
E) Use the germ theory of disease
Answer: C) View microorganisms and record these observations
2. The microbes commonly known if ____________ are single-celled eukaryotes that are
generally motile.
A) Archaea
B) Bacteria
C) Fungi
D) Protozoa
E) Viruses
Answer: D) Protozoa
3. Which of the following are considered prokaryotes?
A) Algae
B) Molds
C) Protozoa
D) Archaea
E) Worms
Answer: D) Archaea
4. Louis Pasteur demonstrated that fermentation to produce alcohol is caused by:
A) Aerobes
B) Facultative anaerobes
C) Obligate parasites
D) Archaea
E) Prokaryotes
Answer: B) Facultative anaerobes
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5. Which of the following scientists provided evidence supporting the concept of
spontaneous generation?
A) Pasteur
B) Needham
C) Redi
D) Buchner
E) Spallanzani
Answer: B) Needham
6. Pasteur's experiments on fermentation laid the foundation for which field?
A) Industrial microbiology
B) Epidemiology
C) Immunology
D) Abiogenesis
E) Antisepsis
Answer: A) Industrial microbiology
7. Which of the following statements about fungi is FALSE?
A) Fungi are eukaryotes
B) Molds are multicellular
C) Fungi have a cell wall
D) Fungi are photosynthetic
E) Yeasts are unicellular
Answer: D) Fungi are photosynthetic
8. Which of the following contributed to the successful application of Koch's postulates?
A) Development of the compound microscope
B) Theory of abiogenesis
C) Ability to photograph bacteria
D) Development of simple bacterial staining techniques
E) Techniques for sterile transfer of bacteria
Answer: E) Techniques for sterile transfer of bacteria
9. Which individual pioneered the use of chemicals to reduce the incidence of infections
during surgery?
A) Florence Nightingale
B) John Snow
C) Paul Ehrlich
D) Joseph Lister
E) Ignaz Semmelweis
Answer: D) Joseph Lister
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10. The technique developed by Hans Christian Gram is essential for bacterial:
A) Etiology
B) Identification
C) Classification
D) Isolation
E) Epidemiology
Answer: B) Identification
11. The use of chemical agents to harm or kill microbes is called:
A) Immunology
B) Chemotherapy
C) Epidemiology
D) Serology
E) Biotechnology
Answer: B) Chemotherapy
12. Parasitic worms, even long tapeworms, are studied in microbiology because:
A) They are parasites
B) Diagnosis usually involves microscopic examination of patient samples
C) The Gram stain can be used to identify them
D) Leeuwenhoek first discovered them
E) No one else wants to study them
Answer: B) Diagnosis usually involves microscopic examination of patient samples
13. Which of the following areas is considered a major driver of modern microbiology
research?
A) Microbial classification
B) Industrial microbiology
C) The study of infectious diseases (etiology)
D) Genetics
E) Food preparation
Answer: D) Genetics
14. Work by ____________ laid the foundation of immunology through vaccine
development.
A) Redi and Spallanzani
B) Koch and Pasteur
C) Jenner and Pasteur
D) Lister and Semmelweis
E) Pauling and Woese
Answer: C) Jenner and Pasteur
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15. According to Kluyver and van Niel, which statement about basic biochemical reactions
is TRUE?
A) They vary widely among living organisms
B) There are an unlimited number of them
C) They all require energy input
D) They primarily involve the transfer of electrons and hydrogen ions
E) They primarily involve transfers of chemical groups
Answer: D) They primarily involve the transfer of electrons and hydrogen ions
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application
Section: The Modern Age of Microbiology Learning Outcome: 1.19
mmelweis advocated handwashing if a method of preventing which of the following diseases?
F) cholera
G) puerperal fever
H) smallpox
I) anthrax
J) syphilis
B
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application Section: The Golden Age of Microbiology Learning Outcome: 1.16
16) Paul Ehrlich used chemotherapy to treat
A) cholera.
B) cancer.
C) anthrax.
D) smallpox.
E) syphilis.
E
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