Microbiology 2420-Final Exam
Questions and Answers (Updated)
What could not be a product of fermentation? - Answer Lipopolysaccharides
Which type of microscopy uses "glow in the dark" dyes to light up a specimen in the dark? -
Answer Fluorescence
Which type of light microscopy produces a bright specimen against a dark or black background?
- Answer Dark Field
Which scientist was the first to observe that hand washing prevented purpura after child birth? -
Answer Semmelweis
Which scientist was the first to reduce infection rates by spraying carbolic acid prior to surgery?
- Answer Lister
The limit of resolution of light microscopy is? - Answer 200 nm
Which organelle glycosylates and directs proteins to their destinations in eukaryotic cells? -
Answer Golgi Apparatus
This organelle is dotted with ribosomes in eukaryotes to better control protein synthesis -
Answer Rough ER
Which type of of thick walled internal spheres help bacillus and clostridium bacteria survive? -
Answer Endospores
This type of organelle makes proteins by threading mRNA through itself during translation -
Answer Ribosome
This organelle makes most of the cell's ATP from the breakdown of sugars - Answer
Mitochondrion
The genus of bacteria consists of gram positive grape like clusters of spheres - Answer
Staphylcoccus
, The theory that DNA → messenger RNA → protein is also called - Answer Central Dogma of
Biology
This flagellar arrangement occurs at one end of the bacterium and has just one flagellum -
Answer Monotrichous
This flagellar arrangement occurs at both ends of the bacterium - Answer Amphitrichous
Name describing the structure and movement of proteins in a eukaryotic plasma membrane -
Answer Fluid Mosaic Model
This substance prevents the formation of crosslinks in the bacterial cell wall - Answer
penicillin
Which class of cells has the most peptidoglycan in its cell walls? - Answer Gram positive
Which process refers to endospore formation inside bacteria? - Answer Sporulation
Which process refers to the birth or hatching of vegetative bacterial cells from endospores? -
Answer Germination
Cells that do not retain or hold onto crystal violet after destaining with 95% alcohol will stain
what color with safranin after gram staining? - Answer Pink to Red
How many molecules of ATP could be made from a single glucose molecule in eukaryotic
aerobic respiration? - Answer 36 ATP's
When the final electron acceptor in the ETC/ETS is oxygen cells will make? - Answer Water
The theory that life arises from non-living or inanimate objects was called? - Answer
Spontaneous generation
TEST 2 - Answer TEST 2
This is the only method for sterilizing soft plastic materials that could otherwise melt - Answer
ethylene oxide
What is NOT a sterilization technique? - Answer Pasteurization
Questions and Answers (Updated)
What could not be a product of fermentation? - Answer Lipopolysaccharides
Which type of microscopy uses "glow in the dark" dyes to light up a specimen in the dark? -
Answer Fluorescence
Which type of light microscopy produces a bright specimen against a dark or black background?
- Answer Dark Field
Which scientist was the first to observe that hand washing prevented purpura after child birth? -
Answer Semmelweis
Which scientist was the first to reduce infection rates by spraying carbolic acid prior to surgery?
- Answer Lister
The limit of resolution of light microscopy is? - Answer 200 nm
Which organelle glycosylates and directs proteins to their destinations in eukaryotic cells? -
Answer Golgi Apparatus
This organelle is dotted with ribosomes in eukaryotes to better control protein synthesis -
Answer Rough ER
Which type of of thick walled internal spheres help bacillus and clostridium bacteria survive? -
Answer Endospores
This type of organelle makes proteins by threading mRNA through itself during translation -
Answer Ribosome
This organelle makes most of the cell's ATP from the breakdown of sugars - Answer
Mitochondrion
The genus of bacteria consists of gram positive grape like clusters of spheres - Answer
Staphylcoccus
, The theory that DNA → messenger RNA → protein is also called - Answer Central Dogma of
Biology
This flagellar arrangement occurs at one end of the bacterium and has just one flagellum -
Answer Monotrichous
This flagellar arrangement occurs at both ends of the bacterium - Answer Amphitrichous
Name describing the structure and movement of proteins in a eukaryotic plasma membrane -
Answer Fluid Mosaic Model
This substance prevents the formation of crosslinks in the bacterial cell wall - Answer
penicillin
Which class of cells has the most peptidoglycan in its cell walls? - Answer Gram positive
Which process refers to endospore formation inside bacteria? - Answer Sporulation
Which process refers to the birth or hatching of vegetative bacterial cells from endospores? -
Answer Germination
Cells that do not retain or hold onto crystal violet after destaining with 95% alcohol will stain
what color with safranin after gram staining? - Answer Pink to Red
How many molecules of ATP could be made from a single glucose molecule in eukaryotic
aerobic respiration? - Answer 36 ATP's
When the final electron acceptor in the ETC/ETS is oxygen cells will make? - Answer Water
The theory that life arises from non-living or inanimate objects was called? - Answer
Spontaneous generation
TEST 2 - Answer TEST 2
This is the only method for sterilizing soft plastic materials that could otherwise melt - Answer
ethylene oxide
What is NOT a sterilization technique? - Answer Pasteurization
