Topic 1: Naming and Classifying Microbes Topic 1: Naming and Classifying Microbes

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The current system of nomenclature for Scientific nomenclature assigns each

organisms was established by organism two names: the genus and the
a. Pasteur a. Kingdom
b. Jenner b. Species (correct answer)
c. Linnaeus (correct answer) c. Family
d. Koch d. Class

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Topic 1: Naming and Classifying Microbes Topic 1: Naming and Classifying Microbes
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In 1978, Carl Woese devised a system of

Archaea, often found in extreme classification based on the cellular
environments, are divided into organization of organisms and consisting
a. Three main groups (correct answer) of Bacteria, Archaea, and
b. Two main groups a. Animalia
c. Four main groups b. Eukaryotes
d. Five main groups c. Eukarya (correct answer)
d. Helminths
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Topic 1: Naming and Classifying Microbes Topic 2: Nobel Prizes in Microbiology

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Eukarya includes all of the following Robert Koch

EXCEPT a. Developed the microscope
a. Viruses (correct answer) b. Discovered penicillin
b. Protists c. Developed the germ theory of
c. Fungi disease (correct answer)
d. Animals d. First observed cells

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Topic 2: Nobel Prizes in Microbiology Topic 2: Nobel Prizes in Microbiology
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Hooke
Pasteur
a. Developed the microscope
a. Disproved spontaneous generation
b. Discovered penicillin (correct answer)
c. Developed the germ theory of b. Discovered penicillin
disease
c. Discovered phagocytosis
d. First observed cells (correct
d. Developed aseptic surgery
answer)
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Topic 2: Nobel Prizes in Microbiology Topic 2: Nobel Prizes in Microbiology

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Metchnikoff Ehrlich
a. Disproved spontaneous generation a. Disproved spontaneous generation
b. Discovered penicillin b. Discovered penicillin
c. Discovered phagocytosis (correct c. Discovered phagocytosis
answer) d. Developed the theory of immunity
d. Developed aseptic surgery (correct answer)

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Topic 3: The Golden Age of Microbiology Topic 3: The Golden Age of Microbiology
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Who first used microscopes to observe

Jenner is associated with
microorganisms?
a. Fermentation
a. Koch
b. Vaccination (correct answer)
b. Jenner
c. Aseptic surgery
c. Pasteur
d. The cell theory
d. Van Leeuwenhoek (correct answer)

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Topic 3: The Golden Age of Microbiology Topic 3: The Golden Age of Microbiology
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Gram is associated with Whose discovery marked the beginning of

a. Fermentation the cell theory?

b. the germ theory a. Hooke (correct answer)

c. Staining techniques (correct b. Van Leeuwenhoek

answer) c. Pasteur
d. The cell theory d. Gram

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Topic 3: The Golden Age of Microbiology Topic 4: Microbes and Human Disease
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Who developed a set of postulates to

Salvarsan was developed by prove that specific microorganisms cause
a. Ehrlich (correct answer) disease?

b. Fleming a. Jenner

c. Weizmann b. Gram

d. Needham c. Pasteur
d. Koch (correct answer)
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Topic 4: Microbes and Human Disease Topic 4: Microbes and Human Disease
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Which disease did Edward Jenner produce

All of the following provide a natural first
the first vaccine against?
line of defense against disease EXCEPT
a. Bubonic plague
a. Interferon
b. Smallpox (correct answer)
b. Penicillin (correct answer)
c. Rabies
c. Skin
d. Yellow fever
d. Mucous membranes

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 Topic 4: Microbes and Human Disease Topic 4: Microbes and Human Disease
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What organism caught the attention of the

An example of a hemorrhagic fever virus is
public in 2003 when it killed millions of
the
poultry?
a. Marburg virus (correct answer)
a. Coronavirus
b. Human immunodeficiency virus
b. H5N1(correct answer)
c. BSE
c. Human immunodeficiency virus
d. West Nile Virus
d. West Nile virus
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Topic 5: Microbes and Human Welfare Topic 5: Microbes and Human Welfare
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Recombinant DNA is
Paul Berg is associated with a. DNA in bacteria
a. Chemotherapy b. The study of how genes work
b. Recombinant DNA (correct answer) c. The DNA resulting when genes of
two different organisms are mixed
c. Immunology
(correct answer)
d. Virology
d. The use of bacteria in the
production of foods
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Topic 5: Microbes and Human Welfare Topic 5: Microbes and Human Welfare
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Biotechnology can best be defined as

a. Using living organisms to clean up The process of gene therapy is used to
pollution treat
b. Using living organisms to develop a. Cystic fibrosis (correct answer)
desired products (correct answer)
b. Diphtheria
c. Using living organisms to treat
disease c. Polio

d. Using living organisms to control d. Avian influenza A

pests
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Topic 5: Microbes and Human Welfare
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Cryptosporidiosis, which can be

transmitted in a public water supply, is Who challenged the case for spontaneous
caused by a generation with the concept of biogenesis?

a. Virus a. Pasteur

b. Prion b. Virchow (correct answer)

c. Protozoan (correct answer) c. Redi

d. Bacterium d. Needham

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