IUPUI Microbiology Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER---Discovered bacteria with the
microscope/Innovated the first microscope
Leeuwenhoek Microorganisms - ANSWER---Fungi, Protozoa, Algae, Bacteria, Archaea,
Small multicellular animals
Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER---Father of taxonomy
Pasteur's experiment - ANSWER---Development of scientific method
Francesco Reid's Experiment - ANSWER---Meat sealed from flies, maggots never
developed. Meat exposed to flies was soon infested.
Ignaz Semmelweiss - ANSWER---Hand washing
Robert Koch developed.. - ANSWER---germ theory of disease
Koch's Postulates - ANSWER---- Suspected causative agent must be found in every
case of the disease and be absent from healthy hosts
- Agent must be isolated and grown outside the host
- When agent is introduced into a healthy, susceptible host, the host must get the
disease
- Same agent must be found in the diseased experimental host
Joseph Lister - ANSWER---Antiseptic surgical technique
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER---Nursing
, IUPUI Microbiology Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
John Snow - ANSWER---infection control and epidemiology
Edward Jenner - ANSWER---Field of immunology
Serology - ANSWER---The study of blood serum
Immunology - ANSWER---The study of the body's defense against specific pathogens
Alexander Fleming - ANSWER---Discovered penicillin
Gerhard Domagk - ANSWER---Discovered sulfa drugs
Bacteria - ANSWER---Prokaryotic (mostly free living)
Fungi - ANSWER---Eukaryotic (free living)
Protozoa - ANSWER---Eukaryotic (mostly free living)
Viruses - ANSWER---Strictly intracellular
Which class of organisms is characterized by its inability to neutralize superoxides? -
ANSWER---Obligate anaerobes
Smallest unit of length - ANSWER---Microns
Psycrophile - ANSWER---Cold-loving microbes
, IUPUI Microbiology Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
During which phase(s) in a bacterial growth cycle are the bacteria most efficient at
producing ATP? - ANSWER---Log
The microbial production of an acid from a sugar is known as ____. - ANSWER---
Fermentation
4 human pathogens - ANSWER---1. Bacteria
2. Fungi
3. Protozoa
4. Viruses
Gram-positive - ANSWER---Purple - No periplasmic space, Thick peptidoglycan layer
Gram-negative - ANSWER---Pink - Contains a periplasmic space, Thin peptidoglycan
layer
Structure of peptidoglycan - ANSWER---1. Polysaccharide backbone
2. Polypeptide cross-bridges
Prokaryotes - ANSWER---Bacteria and Archaea
- Contain flagella
- Some have spores
- Some have2 membranes
- All have one copy of the chromosomes
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER---Discovered bacteria with the
microscope/Innovated the first microscope
Leeuwenhoek Microorganisms - ANSWER---Fungi, Protozoa, Algae, Bacteria, Archaea,
Small multicellular animals
Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER---Father of taxonomy
Pasteur's experiment - ANSWER---Development of scientific method
Francesco Reid's Experiment - ANSWER---Meat sealed from flies, maggots never
developed. Meat exposed to flies was soon infested.
Ignaz Semmelweiss - ANSWER---Hand washing
Robert Koch developed.. - ANSWER---germ theory of disease
Koch's Postulates - ANSWER---- Suspected causative agent must be found in every
case of the disease and be absent from healthy hosts
- Agent must be isolated and grown outside the host
- When agent is introduced into a healthy, susceptible host, the host must get the
disease
- Same agent must be found in the diseased experimental host
Joseph Lister - ANSWER---Antiseptic surgical technique
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER---Nursing
, IUPUI Microbiology Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
John Snow - ANSWER---infection control and epidemiology
Edward Jenner - ANSWER---Field of immunology
Serology - ANSWER---The study of blood serum
Immunology - ANSWER---The study of the body's defense against specific pathogens
Alexander Fleming - ANSWER---Discovered penicillin
Gerhard Domagk - ANSWER---Discovered sulfa drugs
Bacteria - ANSWER---Prokaryotic (mostly free living)
Fungi - ANSWER---Eukaryotic (free living)
Protozoa - ANSWER---Eukaryotic (mostly free living)
Viruses - ANSWER---Strictly intracellular
Which class of organisms is characterized by its inability to neutralize superoxides? -
ANSWER---Obligate anaerobes
Smallest unit of length - ANSWER---Microns
Psycrophile - ANSWER---Cold-loving microbes
, IUPUI Microbiology Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
During which phase(s) in a bacterial growth cycle are the bacteria most efficient at
producing ATP? - ANSWER---Log
The microbial production of an acid from a sugar is known as ____. - ANSWER---
Fermentation
4 human pathogens - ANSWER---1. Bacteria
2. Fungi
3. Protozoa
4. Viruses
Gram-positive - ANSWER---Purple - No periplasmic space, Thick peptidoglycan layer
Gram-negative - ANSWER---Pink - Contains a periplasmic space, Thin peptidoglycan
layer
Structure of peptidoglycan - ANSWER---1. Polysaccharide backbone
2. Polypeptide cross-bridges
Prokaryotes - ANSWER---Bacteria and Archaea
- Contain flagella
- Some have spores
- Some have2 membranes
- All have one copy of the chromosomes
