Microbiology HW part 1
who is considered the "father of western medicine?" - ANS-hippocrates
Who was the first to observe "animalcules" under the microscope? - ANS-Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek
who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to
see? - ANS-Marcus Terentius Varro
Thucydides is known as the father of _____________ - ANS-scientific history
Researchers think that Ötzi the Iceman may have been infected with ______________
disease? - ANS-H. Pylori
the process by which microbes turn grape juice into wine is called
__________________ - ANS-fermentation
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists? - ANS-Ernst Haeckel
What is the standard resource for identifying bacteria? - ANS-Bergey's Manual of
Determinative Bacteriology
In binomial nomenclature, an organism's scientific name includes its _________ and
________________ - ANS-genus and species
Whittaker proposed adding the kingdoms ________ and ________ to his phylogenetic
tree. - ANS-fungi and monera
______________ are organisms without membrane-bound nuclei - ANS-prokaryotes
_________________ are microorganisms that are not included in phylogenetic trees
because they are acellular - ANS-viruses
What molecule did Woese and Fox use to construct their phylogenetic tree? -
ANS-rRNA
Which microorganism is photosynthetic? - ANS-algae
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