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Test Bank for Prescott's Microbiology,
12th Edition by Joanne Willey
Chapter 1 – 42

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Test Bank for Prescott's Microbiology, 12th Edition by Joanne Willey


Prescott's Microbiology, 12e (Willey)
Chapter 1 The Evolution of Microorganisms and Microbiology


1) Archaea are cellular organisms that have unique cell membrane .


Answer: lipids
Topic: Archaea
Bloom's/Accessibility: 1. Remember / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 02 Cell Structure and Function
ASM Objective: 02.03 Bacteria and Archaea have specialized structures (e.g. flagella,
endospores, and pili) that often confer critical capabilities.
Learning Outcome: 01.01c Determine the type of microbe (e.g., bacterium, fungus, etc.) when
given a description of a newly discovered one


2) Extant microorganisms are organisms from the fossil record that are no longer present on Earth
today.


Answer: FALSE
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 01 Evolution
ASM Objective: 01.05 The evolutionary relatedness of organisms is best reflected in
phylogenetic trees.
Learning Outcome: 01.02a Propose a timeline of the origin and history of microbial life and
integrate supporting evidence into it


3) All cellular organisms can be placed into one of three , which include the Bacteria,
Archaea, and the Eukarya.

,Answer: domains
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 01 Evolution
ASM Objective: 01.05 The evolutionary relatedness of organisms is best reflected in
phylogenetic trees.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Explain Carl Woeses contributions in establishing the three-domain
system for classifying cellular life

4) Viruses are not generally studied by microbiologists because they are not classified as living
organisms.


Answer: FALSE
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
ASM Objective: 02.05 The replication cycles of viruses (lytic and lysogenic) differ among
viruses and are determined by their unique structures and genomes.
Learning Outcome: 01.01a Define the term microbiology


5) Microbiologists study a variety of organisms, but all are considered either Bacteria or Archaea.


Answer: FALSE
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 05 Microbial Systems
ASM Objective: 05.04 Microorganisms, cellular and viral, can interact with both human and
nonhuman hosts in beneficial, neutral or detrimental ways.
Learning Outcome: 01.01a Define the term microbiology


6) All eukaryotes have a membrane-delimited nucleus.


Answer: TRUE
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms

,Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 02 Cell Structure and Function
ASM Objective: 02.04 While microscopic eukaryotes (for example, fungi, protozoa and algae)
carry out some of the same processes as bacteria, many of the cellular properties are fundamentally
different.
Learning Outcome: 01.01c Determine the type of microbe (e.g., bacterium, fungus, etc.) when
given a description of a newly discovered one




7) Viruses constitute the fourth domain of life in current biological classification schemes.


Answer: FALSE

,Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 01 Evolution
ASM Objective: 01.05 The evolutionary relatedness of organisms is best reflected in
phylogenetic trees.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Explain Carl Woeses contributions in establishing the three-domain
system for classifying cellular life

,8) Protists contain all of the following forms of life EXCEPT .
A) protozoa
B) fungi
C) slime molds
D) algae


Answer: B
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms Bloom's/Accessibility:
1. Remember / Keyboard NavigationASM
Topic: Module 01 Evolution
ASM Objective: 01.05 The evolutionary relatedness of organisms is best reflected in
phylogenetic trees.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Explain Carl Woeses contributions in establishing the three-domain
system for classifying cellular life


9) Cells with a relatively complex morphology that have a true membrane-delimited nucleus are
called .
A) prokaryotes
B) eukaryotes
C) urkaryotes
D) nokaryotes


Answer: B
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 02 Cell Structure and Function
ASM Objective: 02.04 While microscopic eukaryotes (for example, fungi, protozoa and algae)
carry out some of the same processes as bacteria, many of the cellular properties are fundamentally
different.
Learning Outcome: 01.01c Determine the type of microbe (e.g., bacterium, fungus, etc.) when
given a description of a newly discovered one

,10) Cells with a relatively simple cell morphology that do not have a true membrane-delimited
nucleus are called .
A) prokaryotes
B) eukaryotes
C) urkaryotes
D) nokaryotes


Answer: A
Topic: Bacterial Cellular Morphology Bloom's/Accessibility:
1. Understand / Keyboard NavigationASM Topic:
Module 02 Cell Structure and Function
ASM Objective: 02.01 The structure and function of microorganisms have been revealed by the
use of microscopy (including bright field, phase contrast, fluorescent, and electron).
Learning Outcome: 01.01c Determine the type of microbe (e.g., bacterium, fungus, etc.) when
given a description of a newly discovered one


11) The ribosomal RNA studies that led to the division of prokaryotic organisms into the Bacteria
and the Archaea were begun by .
A) Pasteur
B) Woese
C) Needham
D) Watson


Answer: B
Topic: Taxonomy of Microorganisms Bloom's/Accessibility:
1. Remember / Keyboard NavigationASM
Topic: Module 01 Evolution
ASM Objective: 01.05 The evolutionary relatedness of organisms is best reflected in
phylogenetic trees.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Explain Carl Woeses contributions in establishing the three-domain
system for classifying cellular life


12) Proteins function in modern cells as .
A) catalysts

,B) hereditary information
C) structural elements
D) both catalysts and structural elements


Answer: D
Topic: Bacterial Cellular Morphology Bloom's/Accessibility:
1. Understand / Keyboard NavigationASM Topic:
Module 03 Metabolic Pathways
ASM Objective: 03.01 Bacteria and Archaea exhibit extensive, and often unique, metabolic
diversity (e.g. nitrogen fixation, methane production, anoxygenic photosynthesis).
Learning Outcome: 01.01a Define the term microbiology


13) RNA serves to convert the information stored in DNA to .

, A) carbohydrates
B) protein
C) lipids
D) RNA


Answer: B
Topic: Bacteria
Bloom's/Accessibility: 2. Understand / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 04 Information Flow and Genetics
ASM Objective: 04.02 Although the central dogma is universal in all cells, the processes of
replication, transcription, and translation differ in Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes.
Learning Outcome: 01.02a Propose a timeline of the origin and history of microbial life and
integrate supporting evidence into it


14) The earliest microbial fossils that have been found are dated from approximately 4.5 million
years ago.


Answer: FALSE
Topic: Bacteria
Bloom's/Accessibility: 1. Remember / Keyboard Navigation
ASM Topic: Module 01 Evolution
ASM Objective: 01.05 The evolutionary relatedness of organisms is best reflected in
phylogenetic trees.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Explain Carl Woeses contributions in establishing the three-domain
system for classifying cellular life


15) 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.


Answer: C

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