Applied microbiology deals with important practical problems in
D)
The largest mass of living material on Earth comes from
B)
The cell's genome is stored in
B)
Because the cell communicates, exchanges materials with its environment, and undergoes evolution, it is called a(n)
B)
Changes in cellular characteristics are transmitted to offspring through the process of
C)
Catalysts involved in the acceleration of the rate of chemical reactions are called
D)
Regarding early life on Earth,
D)
Most prokaryotic cells reside
B)
The person who described the "wee animalcules" was
C)
Fannie Hesse is credited with giving __________ the idea to use agar as a solidifying agent.
D)
Which of the following is/are characteristic of cellular organisms?
D)
Which of the following is not a major ecosystem?
A)
Which statement is true?
D)
During a very scientifically productive period in his life, Pasteur developed vaccines for
D)
The discovery of antibiotics and other important chemicals led to the field of
A)
Microbial sterilization is used to
C)
Transparent double-sided dishes used for growing microbes are most commonly called
D)
Microbes playing a role in nitrogen fixation in plants live in __________, while those playing a role in the digestive tract of certain herbivores live in __________.
C)
Genetic engineering could best be described as
D)
The ultimate downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation was the result of work by
A)
A Pasteur flask has a(n)
C)
Koch's greatest accomplishment in the field of medical bacteriology was with
A)
A pure culture
C)
Beijerinck was the first to isolate
D)
Chemolithotrophy involves
D)
Developments in the fields of immunology and medical microbiology were practical extensions of the work of
B)
Microbial control in wastewaters would most logically be a part of
B)
Viruses that infect bacteria are known as
A)
The science of grouping and classifying microorganisms is known as
A)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is very difficult to stain because of the
C)
Pasteur's most famous success was his work on
D)
Microorganisms play key roles in the cycling of important nutrients in plant nutrition, particularly those of
C)
Microbial ecology is the study of
B)
The structure that confers structural strength on the cell and protects it from osmotic lysis is known as the
B)
The four macromolecules common to all cells are: __________, __________, __________, and __________.
Our concept of what is a living organism is constrained by __________.
what we can observe on Earth or dduce from the fossil record
The study of the structure of microorganisms would be a part of microbial __________.
cytology
List three contributions of Ferdinand Cohn to the development of microbiology.
founding bacteriology as a separate science, studying Beggiatoa, discovering the genus Bacillus (along with its endospore formation and its life cycle), devising methods to prevent contamination, and founding a major scientific journal.
Robert Koch received the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for __________.
tuberculosis
The barrier that separates the inside of the cell from the outside environment is known as the __________.
cytoplasmic membrane
The __________ is the fundamental unit of life.
cell
__________ was the first to describe microorganisms, while __________ was the first person to see bacteria.
Robert Hooke / Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
__________ described the first virus and also the basic principles of virology.
