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Straighterline Microbiology Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Spontaneous Generation - 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...

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Spontaneous Generation - 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 - 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 - ANSWER✔✔-the scheme that represents the natural relatedness between

groups of living beings; used to determine taxonomy


Recombinant DNA Technology - 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 - ANSWER✔✔-a representation of the phylogenetic

relationships of all organisms on the planet; presently consists of plants, fungi, animals,

protozoa, and monera




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, Bioremediation - ANSWER✔✔-the use of microbes or consortia of microbes to

decompose harmful chemicals/pollution; one form is biostimulation


Biostimulation - ANSWER✔✔-the process by which microbes in an environment are

encouraged to grow by the addition of nutrients


The 5 types of microorganisms covered - ANSWER✔✔-1) bacteria; 2) Viruses; 3)

protozoa; 4) helminths; 5) fungi


Bacteria - ANSWER✔✔-a category of prokaryotes with peptidoglycan in their cell walls

and circular chromosomes that reproduces via fission


Viruses - ANSWER✔✔-Microscopic, acellular agent composed of nucleic acid

surrounded by a protein coat.


Protzoa - ANSWER✔✔-a group of single-cell, eukaryotic organisms


Fungi - ANSWER✔✔-macroscopic and microscopic heterotrophic eukaryotic organisms

that be uni- or multi- cellular


Archaea - ANSWER✔✔-prokaryotic single-celled organisms of primitive origin that

have unusual anatomy, physiology, and genetics and live in harsh habitats


Pathogen - ANSWER✔✔-any agent (usually a virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan, or

helminth) that causes disease




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