TEST BANK for Nester's Microbiology A Human Perspective 10th Edition (Anderson, 2024), All Chapters 1-30 Included, Complete Latest Guide A+.
TRUE/FALSE -
... [Show More] Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Spontaneous generation refers to the idea that organisms came from other organisms.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The human body only contains bacteria during illness.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Bacteria and eukarya both contain membrane-bound organelles.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) The scientific name of an organism indicates its domain.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Viroids are naked (lacking a protein shell) pieces of RNA that infect plants.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) Viruses simultaneously contain DNA, RNA, and protein.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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7) Viruses, viroids, and prions are obligate intracellular agents.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Viruses and bacteria are both unicellular.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) An organism is categorized in a domain according to its cell size.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) Archaea are very similar to bacteria and have rigid cell walls made of peptidoglycan.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) Thiomargarita namibiensis cannot be a eukaryote because it is only 1 mm in width.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
12) The scientist usually credited with seeing the first microorganisms, which he called
"animalcules", was ______.
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A) Redi
B) van Leeuwenhoek
C) Pasteur
D) Tyndall
E) Lister
13) The word "animalcule" was first used by ______.
A) Pasteur
B) Redi
C) van Leeuwenhoek
D) Tyndall
E) Hooke
14) The idea of spontaneous generation postulated that
A) organisms could evolve into the next generation of organisms.
B) organisms could spontaneously turn into other types of organisms.
C) living organisms could spontaneously arise from non-living material.
D) living organisms could spontaneously arise from other living organisms.
E) living organisms must contain at least ten cells.
15) Which of these scientists were involved in investigating the idea of spontaneous
generation?
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A) Redi and van Leeuwenhoek
B) Redi and Pasteur
C) van Leeuwenhoek and Pasteur
D) Pasteur and Escherich
E) Escherich and Redi
16) The work of Tyndall and Cohn
A) supported the idea of spontaneous generation rather than the idea of biogenesis.
B) explained why some spontaneous generation investigators got different results from
those of Pasteur.
C) showed that all microbes caused spontaneous disease if they enter the human body.
D) allowed scientists to see microorganisms (called "animalcules") using a simple
microscope.
E) showed that boiling fails to kill vegetative bacteria, leading to biogenesis.
17) The structures present in the hay infusions used in experiments on spontaneous
generation that made them difficult to sterilize are _____.
A) chloroplasts
B) endospores
C) organelles
D) toxins
E) nuclei
18) The contradictory results obtained by different scientists apparently doing the same
experiments in investigating spontaneous generation
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A) show that doing experiments once should be enough to prove something.
B) show the importance of exactly duplicating experimental conditions.
C) led to further experiments that ultimately proved spontaneous generation.
D) could not be explained by anyone involved in the work.
E) led to the development and production of swan-necked flasks. [Show Less]