1. Which of the following foods is NOT made by fermentation?
- beer
- bread
- cheese
- orange juice
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2. Who is considered the “father of Western medicine”?
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Thucydides
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Hippocrates
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3. Who was the first to observe “animalcules” under the microscope?
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Ötzi the Iceman
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Robert Koch
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4. Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see?
- Thucydides
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Hippocrates
- Louis Pasteur
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5. Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus’s taxonomy?
- animal
- mineral
- protist
- plant
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6. Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
- Homo Sapiens
- homo sapiens
- Homo sapiens
- Homo Sapiens
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7. Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Carl Woese
- Robert Whittaker
- Ernst Haeckel
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8. Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree?
- Plantae
- Bacteria
- Archaea
- Eukarya
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9. Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
- Systema Naturae
- Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
- Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree
- Haeckel’s General Morphology of Organisms
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10. Which of the following types of microorganisms is photosynthetic?
- yeast
- virus
- helminth
- alga
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11. Which of the following is a prokaryotic microorganism?
- helminth
- protozoan
- cyanobacterium
- mold
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12. Which of the following is acellular?
- virus
- bacterium
- fungus
- protozoan
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13. Which of the following is a type of fungal microorganism?
- bacterium
- protozoan
- alga
- yeast
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14. Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
- bacteriology
- botany
- clinical microbiology
- virology
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