UTA Microbiology Exam 1 Questions and
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• Microbiology -✓✓The study of small organisms
• Hippocrates was known as ___? -✓✓the father of western medicine
• What did Hippocrates believe? -✓✓diseases were not caused by supernatural reason
• Leeuwenhoek was known as __? -✓✓the father of microbiology
• What did Pasteur discover and invent? -✓✓discovered fermentation, invented
pasteurization, vaccines
• What did Koch create and develop? -✓✓created a method for connecting pathogens
with a specific disease and developed vaccines
• Carlous Linnaeus was known as _? -✓✓the father of taxonomy
• What did Carlous Linnaeus contribute to the tree of life? -✓✓plant and animal
kingdoms
• What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to the tree of life? -✓✓protists and monera
kingdoms
• eukaryotes that cannot be classified as animals, plants, or fungi. Algae & Protozoa -
✓✓Protists
• Monera -✓✓one celled organism with no distinct nucleus. Became Archaea and
Bacteria Kingdoms
• What did Robert Whittaker contribute to the tree of life? -✓✓fungi kingdom
• Who was the first to develop a molecular technique to phylogenetic analysis? -
✓✓Woese and Fox
• How is nomenclature written? -✓✓Genus Species
• Name the sub levels from least specific to most specific -✓✓Kingdom, phylum, class,
order, family, genus, species, strain
, • Name the types of prokaryotes -✓✓Bacteria and Archaea
• Name the types of eukaryotes -✓✓Algae, protozoa, fungi, helminths
• Name some acellular microbes -✓✓Viruses and prions
• Unicellular, Prokaryotic some have peptidoglycan cell walls and some are
photosynthetic -✓✓Bacteria
• Unicellular, prokaryotic pseudo-peptidoglycan wall -✓✓Archaea
• Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose wall -✓✓Algae
• Unicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall -✓✓Protozoa
• Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, chitin wall -✓✓Fungi
• Multicellular parasitic worms, eukaryotic, no cell wall -✓✓Helminths
• Define wavelengths -✓✓The length between peaks
• Define amplitude -✓✓Height of peaks or depths of troughs
• Define frequency -✓✓The rate of peaks in time
• As wavelength ___: frequency ___ -✓✓Increases, decreases
• When does reflection occur? -✓✓When a wave bounces off a material
• When does absorbance occur? -✓✓When a wave is captured and not as much light is
traveling through
• When does transmission occur? -✓✓When a wave travels straight through a
transparent object
• When does interference occur? -✓✓When a wave interacts with another wave
• A wave can cancel/add to the effect of another wave? T/F -✓✓True
• When does diffraction occur? -✓✓When light is bend or scattered by an object
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Answers (2026/2027) | Updated Review |
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• Microbiology -✓✓The study of small organisms
• Hippocrates was known as ___? -✓✓the father of western medicine
• What did Hippocrates believe? -✓✓diseases were not caused by supernatural reason
• Leeuwenhoek was known as __? -✓✓the father of microbiology
• What did Pasteur discover and invent? -✓✓discovered fermentation, invented
pasteurization, vaccines
• What did Koch create and develop? -✓✓created a method for connecting pathogens
with a specific disease and developed vaccines
• Carlous Linnaeus was known as _? -✓✓the father of taxonomy
• What did Carlous Linnaeus contribute to the tree of life? -✓✓plant and animal
kingdoms
• What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to the tree of life? -✓✓protists and monera
kingdoms
• eukaryotes that cannot be classified as animals, plants, or fungi. Algae & Protozoa -
✓✓Protists
• Monera -✓✓one celled organism with no distinct nucleus. Became Archaea and
Bacteria Kingdoms
• What did Robert Whittaker contribute to the tree of life? -✓✓fungi kingdom
• Who was the first to develop a molecular technique to phylogenetic analysis? -
✓✓Woese and Fox
• How is nomenclature written? -✓✓Genus Species
• Name the sub levels from least specific to most specific -✓✓Kingdom, phylum, class,
order, family, genus, species, strain
, • Name the types of prokaryotes -✓✓Bacteria and Archaea
• Name the types of eukaryotes -✓✓Algae, protozoa, fungi, helminths
• Name some acellular microbes -✓✓Viruses and prions
• Unicellular, Prokaryotic some have peptidoglycan cell walls and some are
photosynthetic -✓✓Bacteria
• Unicellular, prokaryotic pseudo-peptidoglycan wall -✓✓Archaea
• Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose wall -✓✓Algae
• Unicellular, eukaryotic, no cell wall -✓✓Protozoa
• Unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic, chitin wall -✓✓Fungi
• Multicellular parasitic worms, eukaryotic, no cell wall -✓✓Helminths
• Define wavelengths -✓✓The length between peaks
• Define amplitude -✓✓Height of peaks or depths of troughs
• Define frequency -✓✓The rate of peaks in time
• As wavelength ___: frequency ___ -✓✓Increases, decreases
• When does reflection occur? -✓✓When a wave bounces off a material
• When does absorbance occur? -✓✓When a wave is captured and not as much light is
traveling through
• When does transmission occur? -✓✓When a wave travels straight through a
transparent object
• When does interference occur? -✓✓When a wave interacts with another wave
• A wave can cancel/add to the effect of another wave? T/F -✓✓True
• When does diffraction occur? -✓✓When light is bend or scattered by an object
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