Bailey Scott's Microbiology Chapter Review Questions With Verified Answers
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Bailey Scott's Microbiology Chapter Review
Questions With Verified Answers.
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] The most specific and exclusive taxon used in the classification of
microorganisms is:
a. Family
b. Order
c. Species
d. Genus - answerc. Species
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] The process consisting...
Bailey Scott's Microbiology Chapter Review
Questions With Verified Answers.
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] The most specific and exclusive taxon used in the classification of
microorganisms is:
a. Family
b. Order
c. Species
d. Genus - answer✔✔c. Species
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] The process consisting of a series of methods designed to provide the
microbiologist with relevant and useful clinical information about a microorganism is:
a. Classification
b. Identification
c. Organization
d. Taxonomy - answer✔✔b. Identification
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] Classification and naming or organisms is useful in diagnostic
microbiology for all of the following except:
a. provides standardized groupings for identification
b. standardized groupings are always genotypically similar at >98%
c. standardized groupings share similar phenotypic traits
d. organisms within a standard group may be identified using
similar methods - answer✔✔a. provides standardized groupings for identification
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] Label each of the following characteristics as either a phenotypic (P)
or a genotypic (G) characteristic.
Color of growth on artificial media - answer✔✔phenotypic (P)
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,[1: Microbial Taxonomy] Label each of the following characteristics as either a phenotypic (P)
or a genotypic (G) characteristic.
The presence of an antibiotic resistance DNA sequence - answer✔✔genotypic (G)
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] Label each of the following characteristics as either a phenotypic (P)
or a genotypic (G) characteristic.
The shape of the bacterial cell - answer✔✔phenotypic (P)
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] Label each of the following characteristics as either a phenotypic (P)
or a genotypic (G) characteristic.
The arrangement of the bacterial cells on a microscope slide - answer✔✔phenotypic (P)
[1: Microbial Taxonomy] Label each of the following characteristics as either a phenotypic (P)
or a genotypic (G) characteristic.
The ability of the organism to ferment lactose - answer✔✔phenotypic (P)
[2: Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure] The periplasmic space is required for:
a. Nutrient collection in both gram-positive and gram-negative
bacteria
b. Collection and enzymatic degradation of nutrients in gram-negative bacteria
c. Nutrient detoxification and enzymatic degradation in all bacteria
d. None of the above - answer✔✔b. Collection and enzymatic degradation of nutrients in gram-
negative bacteria
[2: Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure] Prokaryotic chromosomes:
a. Are double-stranded RNA molecules
b. Are single-copy, double-stranded DNA molecules
c. Are linear double-stranded DNA molecules
d. Are unable to replicate independently of plasmids - answer✔✔b. Are single-copy, double-
stranded DNA molecules
[2: Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure] Bacterial cells genetically evolve by:
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, a. Recombination with plasmids, transposons, and other bacterial
chromosomes
b. Mutation and recombination
c. Use of the mechanisms of transduction, transformation, and
conjugation
d. All of the above - answer✔✔d. All of the above
[2: Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure] Transcription is the:
a. Copying of DNA to RNA
b. Changing of DNA to RNA
c. Production of a complementary DNA d. Completion of a protein sequence - answer✔✔a.
Copying of DNA to RNA
[2: Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure] A eukaryotic cell:
a. Is smaller and less complex than a prokaryotic cell b. Is able to grow only in aerobic
conditions
c. Contains membrane-bound organelles
d. Is unable to grow outside of another cell - answer✔✔c. Contains membrane-bound organelles
[2: Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure] Match each term with the correct description.
Capsule
a. involved in transcriptional regulation
b. able to grow in the presence or absence of oxygen
c. maintains selective permeability and cell shape
d. provides a mechanism to evade the human immune system
e. the process of making a new DNA molecule
f. involved in protein translation
g. contains a thick layer of peptidoglycan
h. final electron acceptor is oxygen
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