Microbiology -Chapter 1

The microbial production of alcohol from sugar is known as

• fermentation

• pasteurization

• antisepsis

• metabolism

Fungi are photosynthetic.

• True

• False

Which of the following individuals stated that women who give birth at home have fewer infections than women who give birth in the hospital?

• Spallanzani

• Snow

• Holmes

• Nightengale

Semmelweis advocated handwashing as a method of preventing which of the following

• smallpox

• anthrax

• puerperal fever

• syphilis

Paul Ehrlich used chemotherapy to treat

• cancer

• syphilis

• anthrax

• smallpox

Viruses are visible with a light microscope.

• True

• False

Who discovered penicillin?

• Ehrlich

• Hooke

• Fleming

• Pasteur

The term _____literally means "produces disease."

• anaerobe

• prokaryote

• nosocomial

• pathogen

The term _____refers to an infection acquired in a health care setting.

• nosocomial

• archaea

• abiogenesis

• asepsis

The bacterium that causes the bubonic plague is

• E. coli

• Pseudomonas

• Yersinia pestis

• S. pneumoniae