Spontaneous Generation - correct answer Disproven hypothesis that that plants, animals, and people came from an invisible life-giving force. In application it led to the notion that diseases were caused by curses from God or miasmas in the air.
Taxonomy - correct answer The science of classifica...
Straighterline Microbiology Final
Spontaneous Generation - correct answer Disproven hypothesis that that plants, animals, and people
came from an invisible life-giving force. In application it led to the notion that diseases were caused by
curses from God or miasmas in the air.
Taxonomy - correct answer The science of classification of biological species used to organize all of the
forms of modern and extinct life and is based on how related the biological species are to each other
Phylogeny - correct answer the scheme that represents the natural relatedness between groups of living
beings; used to determine taxonomy
Recombinant DNA Technology - correct answer a technology that deliberately modifies the genetic
structure of an organism to create novel products, microbes, animals, plants and viruses; aka genetic
engineering
Tree of life or Web of Life - correct answer a representation of the phylogenetic relationships of all
organisms on the planet; presently consists of plants, fungi, animals, protozoa, and monera
Bioremediation - correct answer the use of microbes or consortia of microbes to decompose harmful
chemicals/pollution; one form is biostimulation
Biostimulation - correct answer the process by which microbes in an environment are encouraged to
grow by the addition of nutrients
The 5 types of microorganisms covered - correct answer 1) bacteria; 2) Viruses; 3) protozoa; 4)
helminths; 5) fungi
Bacteria - correct answer a category of prokaryotes with peptidoglycan in their cell walls and circular
chromosomes that reproduces via fission
Viruses - correct answer Microscopic, acellular agent composed of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein
coat.
Protzoa - correct answer a group of single-cell, eukaryotic organisms
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