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Microbiology With Diseases by Body System 3rd Edition Bauman Test Bank
Microbiology With Diseases by Body System 3rd Edition Bauman Test Bank
2) A cell that uses an organic carbon source and obtains energy from light would be called a
A) photoheterotroph.
B) lithoautotroph.
C) photoautotroph.
D) chemoheterotroph.
E) chemoautotroph.
Answer: A
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
4) An aquatic microbe that can grow only at the surface of the water is probably which of the
following?
A) a phototroph
B) a heterotroph
C) a chemotroph
D) a lithotroph
E) an anaerobe
Answer: A
Bloom's Rank: Application
Section: Growth Requirements
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5) Which of the following forms of oxygen is detoxified by the enzyme catalase?
A) singlet oxygen
B) hydroxyl radical
C) peroxide anion
D) superoxide radical
E) molecular oxygen
Answer: C
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
6) All of the following are used to protect organisms from the toxic by-products of oxygen
EXCEPT
A) carotenoids.
B) superoxide dismutase.
C) peroxidase.
D) protease.
E) catalase.
Answer: D
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
7) A microbe that grows only at the bottom of a tube of thioglycollate medium is probably a(n)
A) obligate aerobe.
B) facultative anaerobe.
C) aerotolerant anaerobe.
D) microaerophile.
E) obligate anaerobe.
Answer: E
Bloom's Rank: Application
Section: Growth Requirements
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9) Which of the following growth factors would NOT be required by microbes which do not
utilize electron transport chains?
A) heme.
B) selenium.
C) NADH.
D) vitamins.
E) amino acids.
Answer: A
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
10) At temperatures higher than the maximum growth temperature for an organism,
A) proteins are permanently denatured.
B) membranes become too fluid for proper function.
C) hydrogen bonds within molecules are broken.
D) hydrogen bonds are broken, and proteins are permanently denatured.
E) hydrogen bonds are broken, proteins are denatured, and membranes become too fluid.
Answer: E
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
12) The term barophile refers to which of the following growth requirements?
A) hydrostatic pressure
B) temperature
C) nitrogen source
D) pH
E) osmotic pressure
Answer: A
Bloom's Rank: Knowledge
Section: Growth Requirements
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13) Which of the following organisms would be most likely to contaminate a jar of pickles?
A) a neutrophile
B) a thermophile
C) an acidophile
D) an obligate anaerobe
E) a mesophile
Answer: C
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
14) Organisms that can grow with or without oxygen present are
A) obligate aerobes.
B) facultative anaerobes.
C) aerotolerant anaerobes.
D) obligate anaerobes.
E) either facultative anaerobes or aerotolerant anaerobes.
Answer: E
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth Requirements
15) A fastidious organism might be grown on which of the following types of media?
A) transport media
B) reducing media
C) enriched media
D) differential media
E) selective media
Answer: C
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Culturing Microorganisms
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17) Joan wants to discover a microbe capable of degrading an environmental contaminant.
Which of the following refers to the process she should use?
A) cell culture
B) chemostat
C) quorum sensing
D) enrichment culture
E) nitrogen fixation
Answer: D
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Culturing Microorganisms
18) A microbiologist inoculates a growth medium with 100 bacterial cells/ml. If the generation
time of the species is 1 hour, and there is no lag phase, how long will it be before the culture
contains more than 10,000 cells/ml?
A) 24 hours
B) 7 hours
C) 2 hours
D) 3 hours
E) 10 hours
Answer: B
Bloom's Rank: Application
Section: Growth of Microbial Populations
19) An epidemiologist is investigating a new disease and observes what appear to be bacteria
inside tissue cells in clinical samples from victims. The scientist wants to try to isolate the
bacteria in the lab. What culture conditions are most likely to be successful?
A) culturing on blood agar plates
B) inoculation of EMB plates
C) incubation in a candle jar
D) inoculation of cell cultures
E) inoculation of a minimal medium broth
Answer: D
Bloom's Rank: Application
Section: Culturing Microorganisms
20) Which of the following measurement techniques would be useful to quantify a species of
bacteria that is difficult to culture?
A) membrane filtration
B) viable plate counts
C) MPN
D) microscopic counts
E) metabolic activity
Answer: D
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Growth of Microbial Populations
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21) MacConkey agar plates represent __________ medium.
A) a minimal
B) a selective
C) a differential
D) both a differential and a selective
E) both a minimal and a selective
Answer: D
Bloom's Rank: Comprehension
Section: Culturing Microorganisms
24) A device that removes wastes and adds fresh medium to bacterial cultures in order to prolong
the log phase of a culture is called a(n)
A) Coulter counter.
B) cytometer.
C) spectrophotometer.
D) pellicle.
E) chemostat.
Answer: E
Bloom's Rank: Knowledge
Section: Growth of Microbial Populations
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