Microbiology - Exam 1 - Chapters 1-4 Questions With Complete Solutions.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person in history to...
...view protozoa and bacteria called ANIMALCULES.
Who developed the technique of vaccination to prevent smallpox?
Edward Jenner
Who advocated handwashing to pr...
Microbiology - Exam 1 - Chapters 1-4 Questions With
Complete Solutions.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person in history to...
...view protozoa and bacteria called ANIMALCULES.
Who developed the technique of vaccination to prevent smallpox?
Edward Jenner
Who advocated handwashing to prevent puerperal sepsis?
Ignaz Semmelweis
Who is responsible for infection control and epidemiology?
John Snow
Who disproved spontaneous generation?
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch was involved in research on all of the following topics except...
A) the cause of anthrax.
B) the cause of fermentation.
C) development of a method to prove the cause of an infectious disease.
D) the cause of tuberculosis.
E) techniques for isolating microbes in the laboratory.
...the cause of fermentation.
The microbial production of alcohol from sugar is known as?
Fermentation
Microorganisms characterized by the absence of a nucleus are called?
Prokaryotes
The microbes commonly known as _____ are single-celled eukaryotes that
possess no cell wall and are generally motile.
Protozoa
Which of the following statements about fungi is false?
A) Fungi are eukaryotes.
B) Molds form hyphae.
C) Fungi have a cell wall.
D) Fungi are photosynthetic.
E) Yeasts are unicellular
Fungi are photosynthetic.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of protozoa?
A) Most exhibit asexual reproduction.
B) They are single-celled organisms.
C) They are eukaryotic organisms.
D) They are the microbes most similar to plants.
E) They frequently possess cilia or flagella.
They are the microbes most similar to plants.
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