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BMS 127 Midterm -1 Questions With Correct Answers

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BMS 127 Midterm #1 Questions With
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what's the best way to study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-to teach the
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material to someone else | | |




how much time should you budget to study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-3
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hours of study and reading time for ever 1 hour of lecture
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how should you approach reading the material - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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read once casualy before lecture, and carefully read relevant sections
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after


how should you approach taking notes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-take
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notes on post-lecture reading, incorporate into lecture and rewrite all
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notes


what is the golden age of micorbiology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1870 to
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1910
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an example of microbes role in agriculture? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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nitrogen-fixing bacteria are formed/live in legume root modules
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,plant legumes so that NH4 will leach out into soil, use soil to plant other
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crops (crop-rotation)
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an example of microbes role in bioremediation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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some bacteria eat oil and this can help w oil spills
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an example of microbes role in symbiosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Vibrio fischeri glow and are under Hawaiian bobtail squids. This glow
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helps them hide from predators since they're nocturnal
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symbiosis definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Any relationship in which
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two species live closely together
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pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-disease-causing microbe
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opportunistic pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-causes disease only in
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the absence of normal host resistance
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true pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cause disease in any
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circumstance


sacrobe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-consume dead things
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, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-invented 1st
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microscope and discovered microorganisms| | |




Robert Hooke - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used a compound microscope to
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discover that large organisms were omposed of microscopic cells
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Louis Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. make vaccine against rabies
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2. invented pasteurization (food preservation technique)
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3. disproved abiogenesis
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alexander Flemming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Discovered penicillin, first
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antibiotic


Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Developed a vaccine for
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smallpox in 1796 | |




Robert Koch - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. identified the bacterium that
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caused tuberculosis
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2. streak plate method to ID pathogens
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3. father of microbio
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