BIOL 211 Exam 1 – Questions With Insightful Solutions
What are some types of prokaryotic microbes? Correct Answer -
bacteria and archaea (single cell microbes)
What are some types of eukaryotic microbes? Correct Answer - Fungi,
Parasitic Worms, Protozoa, algae (have a membrane bound nucleus)
What are some acellular infectious agents? Correct Answer - prions and
viruses
What field of study involves bacteria and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Bacteriology/Bacteriologist
What field of study involves Fungi and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Mycology/Mycologist
What field of study involves Protozoa and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Protozzology/Protozoologist
What field of study involves algae and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Phycology/Phycologist
What field of study involves viruses and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Virology/Virologist
What field of study involves parasitic worms and what are their scientists
names? Correct Answer - Parasitology/Parasitologist
What scientist created the 1st microscope and developed cell theory?
Correct Answer - Robert Hooke
What could the first microscope see? Correct Answer - 30x [cork,
nematodes, mites, mold] [not bacteria]
What scientist created the 1st microscope that could see prokaryotes such as
bacteria, algae, protozoa? Correct Answer - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
, What scientist disproved spontaneous generation with meat flask
experiment? Correct Answer - Francesco Redi
What scientist supported spontaneous generation with faulty experiment [no
cover over broth]? Correct Answer - John Needham
What scientist disproved Needham by boiling broth with cover to disprove
spontaneous generation? Correct Answer - Lazzaro Spallanzani
What scientist created the long neck flask, discovered fermentation, proved
microbes didn't spontaneously generate, discovered microbes can spoil food
and beverages, invented pasteurization, and proved microbes can cause
disease? Correct Answer - Louis Pasteur "father of microbiology"
What scientist was the first to grow microbes on solid surfaces? Correct
Answer - Robert Koch
What are Koch's postulates? Correct Answer - 1. The suspected
pathogen must be present in all cases of the disease and absent from healthy
animals.
2. The suspected pathogen must be grown in pure culture.
3. Cells from a pure culture of the suspected pathogen must cause disease in a
healthy animal.
4. The suspected pathogen must be re-isolated and shown to be the same as
the original.
What scientist instituted hand washing with chlorine solution? Correct
Answer - Ignaz Semmelweis
What scientist introduced carbolic acid dressings and aseptic environments
for surgery? Correct Answer - Joseph Lister
What scientist was the first to link significance of mortality ot disease?
Correct Answer - Florence Nightingale
What scientist linked outbreak to a specific water source? Correct Answer -
John Snow
What are some types of prokaryotic microbes? Correct Answer -
bacteria and archaea (single cell microbes)
What are some types of eukaryotic microbes? Correct Answer - Fungi,
Parasitic Worms, Protozoa, algae (have a membrane bound nucleus)
What are some acellular infectious agents? Correct Answer - prions and
viruses
What field of study involves bacteria and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Bacteriology/Bacteriologist
What field of study involves Fungi and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Mycology/Mycologist
What field of study involves Protozoa and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Protozzology/Protozoologist
What field of study involves algae and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Phycology/Phycologist
What field of study involves viruses and what are their scientists names?
Correct Answer - Virology/Virologist
What field of study involves parasitic worms and what are their scientists
names? Correct Answer - Parasitology/Parasitologist
What scientist created the 1st microscope and developed cell theory?
Correct Answer - Robert Hooke
What could the first microscope see? Correct Answer - 30x [cork,
nematodes, mites, mold] [not bacteria]
What scientist created the 1st microscope that could see prokaryotes such as
bacteria, algae, protozoa? Correct Answer - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
, What scientist disproved spontaneous generation with meat flask
experiment? Correct Answer - Francesco Redi
What scientist supported spontaneous generation with faulty experiment [no
cover over broth]? Correct Answer - John Needham
What scientist disproved Needham by boiling broth with cover to disprove
spontaneous generation? Correct Answer - Lazzaro Spallanzani
What scientist created the long neck flask, discovered fermentation, proved
microbes didn't spontaneously generate, discovered microbes can spoil food
and beverages, invented pasteurization, and proved microbes can cause
disease? Correct Answer - Louis Pasteur "father of microbiology"
What scientist was the first to grow microbes on solid surfaces? Correct
Answer - Robert Koch
What are Koch's postulates? Correct Answer - 1. The suspected
pathogen must be present in all cases of the disease and absent from healthy
animals.
2. The suspected pathogen must be grown in pure culture.
3. Cells from a pure culture of the suspected pathogen must cause disease in a
healthy animal.
4. The suspected pathogen must be re-isolated and shown to be the same as
the original.
What scientist instituted hand washing with chlorine solution? Correct
Answer - Ignaz Semmelweis
What scientist introduced carbolic acid dressings and aseptic environments
for surgery? Correct Answer - Joseph Lister
What scientist was the first to link significance of mortality ot disease?
Correct Answer - Florence Nightingale
What scientist linked outbreak to a specific water source? Correct Answer -
John Snow
