Portage Microbiology Module 1 Exam Questions and Correct Answers Already Passed
What is microbiology? - Answers The study of biological processes at the micro level.
What are viruses classified as? - Answers Microbes
How are microbes helpful? - Answers They aid in food digestion and protect us ...
What is microbiology? - Answers The study of biological processes at the micro level.
What are viruses classified as? - Answers Microbes
How are microbes helpful? - Answers They aid in food digestion and protect us from foreign invaders.
What is a pathogen? - Answers A microbe that can cause disease.
What is a microbe? - Answers an organism or virus too small to be seen without a microscope
What is a prokaryote? - Answers A cell without a nucleus
What are the three classifications of life? - Answers Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
Which classifications of life are prokaryotes? - Answers Bacteria and archaea
What are the most common morphologies of bacteria? - Answers Coccus, bacillus, vibrio, spirillum
Coccus - Answers round, spherical
Bacillus - Answers Rod shaped bacteria
Vibrio - Answers curved rod
Spirillum - Answers spiral shaped bacteria
Three examples of Eubacteria - Answers Streptococcus, E. coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis
What is unique about archaea? - Answers They can survive in extreme environmental conditions
(extremophiles)
What are the four classifications of eukaryotic microorganisms? - Answers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and
Protista
Animalia - Answers heterotrophic multicellular eukaryotic organisms
Animalia are ________ and have the general characteristic of _______________. - Answers
heterotrophic, motility
Fungi can be both _____________ or ____________ organisms. - Answers multicellular, unicellular
What is the defining characteristic of fungi? - Answers Presence of chitin in cell walls
What are protista? - Answers (1) Unicellular microorganisms that form as colonies, but not tissue layers.
(2) They do not fit criteria for plants, animals, or fungi.
An amoeba is classified as - Answers protista
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