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