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EEES 1170 Microbes and Society, Fall 2009
Quiz 1, 30 points
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True/False (circle one answer, one point each)
1. Viruses can sometimes be considered alive.
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2. Robert Hooke and Roger Bacon were responsible for the Golden Age of Microbiology.
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3. An example of a monosaccharide is glucose.
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4. Starch is made up of a chain of lipids.
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5. The electron microscope was invented in the 1970s.
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6. In the three-domain system of organism classification, viruses were classified as “Eubacteria”
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7. In a compacted landfill, aerobic bacteria will commonly appear at the same time as anaerobic bacteria.
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8. Koch used the causative agent of anthrax to develop his four postulates of infectious disease.
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9. Solid nutrient media would be the best choice for growing bacteria if you are interested in isolating
a single colony.
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Multiple choice (circle one answer, two points each)
10. In which environment do you typically not find bacteria?
A) air
B) desert
C) ice
D) none of the above
11. The process of metabolism can be broken down into four steps. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) sense and identify nutrients in the environment
B) transport nutrients through the cell membrane
C) transform nutrients into usable compounds
D) create biomass following infection and utilization of host resources.
12. In the photo to the right, what does the arrow point to?
A) fungi
B) fine plant roots
C) filamentous bacteria
D) soil algae
14. How long is a typical bacterium?
A) 1 millimeter
B) 1 micrometer
C) 1 nanometer
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15. Choose the answer that has the units of measurement in decreasing order (i.e., largest-to-smallest).
A) micrometer, centimeter, millimeter, nanometer
B) nanometer, millimeter micrometer, centimeter
C) centimeter, millimeter, nanometer, micrometer
D) centimeter, millimeter, micrometer, nanometer
16. Which of the following compounds would bacteria most prefer to degrade during metabolism (circle one)?
17. The viewpoint of Pasteur’s critics was called _______ generation, in which contamination arose via the _______
force. (Insert the correct letter in the spaces above, 2 points for each response)
A) fermentative
B) binary
C) proton
D) bacterial
E) spontaneous
F) life
G) infective
H) metabolic
Short answer (answer in one or two sentences, one point each)
18. Bacteria highly adaptive. How does this help them compete with other organisms?
19. What is a pathogen?
20. Name two beneficial functions of microbes?
Fill in the blank (two points each)
21. The binomial name of the causative agent of bubonic plague is Yersinia pestis. The first name, Yersinia, refers to
the ____________________while the second name refers to the species.
22. Maltose and dipeptides are formed by joining two smaller molecules together through a process called
_________________ synthesis. (Hint: what compound gets released when the two monomers are joined
together?)
Extra credit (one point). Name each of the compounds in question 16.
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