BIOS 242 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+

BIOS 242 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+

◉ What does medical microbiology study?
Answer: microbes that cause disease in humans and animals


◉ What does public health microbiology study?
Answer: monitoring and controlling disease spread in populations


◉ What does immunology study?
Answer: the immune response to infection


◉ What does industrial microbiology study?
Answer: use of microbes in food, water, and production


◉ What does agricultural microbiology study?
Answer: microbes and their relationship with plants and animals


◉ What does environmental microbiology study?
Answer: microbes in natural environments

, ◉ Who was Louis Pasteur?
Answer: disproved spontaneous generation using swan-neck flask


◉ How did Pasteur disprove spontaneous generation?
Answer: microbes only grew when exposed to air


◉ Who was Robert Hooke?
Answer: first to describe cells


◉ Who was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
Answer: first to observe live microorganisms


◉ Who was Ignaz Semmelweis?
Answer: promoted handwashing to prevent infection


◉ Who was Joseph Lister?
Answer: introduced antiseptic surgery


◉ Who was Robert Koch?
Answer: linked microbes to specific diseases