Microbiology Test I

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Who Disproved spontaneous generation and developed the rabies vaccine?

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Pasteur

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Organisms which have no nucleus?

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prokaryotes

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Gram negative bacteria _________ then Gram postive organisms?

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have less peptidoglyan

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This investigator argues that cleanliness would prevent "Childbirth Fever"

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Semmelweis

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The theory of spontaneous generation states that

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microorganizms arise from lifeless matter

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A sticky outer covering made of polysaccharides that can be a slime layer or capsule?

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glycocalyx

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Appear as chains of round berries

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streptococci

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Among the first scientists to see microorganisms

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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The concept that microorganisms are the cause of infectious disease is known as?

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Germ theory of disease.

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The two components of the binomial name of a microorganism are ?

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Genus and species

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When substances are modified as they enter the cell, and the modified form can not cross the plasma membrane that process is called?

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group translocation

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Robert Kock is remembered in mircobiology beacuse he

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proved the germ theory of disease (Kock Postulates)

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In the name Staphylococcus aureus, the capitalized name is its?

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Genus

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An antibiotic that specifically prevented synthesis of the peptidoglycan would be most effective on

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Gram positive bacteria

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The scientist who developed pure culture techniques for bacteria was

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Koch

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Poly-B-hydroxybutyrate is

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A storage compound

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A tightly coiled felxible organism with an axial filament might be a

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spirochete

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A group of bacteria that does not have a cell wall?

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mycoplasma

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The process that breaks down organiz substrates, releasing energy that can be used to synthesize ATP or other high energy compounts is ?

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catabolism

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In glycolysis, six carbon glucose molecules are broken down into 2 three-carbon molecules of?

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pyruvic acid

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for each glucose molecule converted in 2 pyruvatesm the anaerobic reaction sequence in glycolysis provides a net gain of?

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2 ATP for the cell

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For each glucose molecule processed during aerobic cellular respiration the prokaryotic cell gains?

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38 molecules of ATP

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Organism synthesize ATP by oxidatiove phosphorylation when they?

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pass electrons through an electon transport system

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Most fementation reactions yield how many ATP molecules per molecule of glucose oxidized?

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2

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Which of the following organisms are obligate intracellular parasites?

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Rickettsia

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The causative agent of gonorrhea and meningitis are?

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Neisseria

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Bacteria that have flagella over their entire surface are

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peritrichous

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Self-replication circular DNA molecules in bacteria that fequently carry drug resistance genes are called ?

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plasmids

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Which of the following is mismatched ?
corynebacterium-gram positive plemmorphic rod

mycobacterium -acid fast rod
mycoplasma - gram positive rod

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mycoplasma - gram positive rod

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Carl Woese divided prokaryotes into three groups based on

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ribosomal RNA

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Which of the following statements about the three domain systems is incorrect?

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before it was introduced, the most widely accepted system was the four kingdom system.

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Which of the following sets is mis-matched?

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Serratia marcescens-yellow colonies (suppose to be red colonies)

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Which of the following is a primary bacterial cell wall function?

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support

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Bacterial endospores funcion in

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Survival

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A bacterial arrangement in packets of eight cells is described as a

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sarcina

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The science of classification is

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taxonomy

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THe moderny system of biological names was developed by

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Carolus Lonnaeus

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Bacterial pili are involved in ?

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adherence to host cells.

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Which of the following structures is found in all bacteria?

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cytoplasmic membrane

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Much evidence suggests that ________ and_________ arose through endosymbiotic associatons between bacteria and primitive eukaryotic cells.

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Mitochondria, chloroplasts