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Gen Bio II Trivia 4: Bacteria and Archaea

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Spherical bacteria are called ____.

a)

Bacilli

b)

Cocci

c)

Spirilli

d)

Spirochetes

2.

After staining, gram-positive bacteria appear ____.

a)

Purple

b)

Pink

3.

When a bacterium gets new DNA via a virus, we call this ___.

a)

Transformation

b)

Transduction

c)

Conjugation

4.

These use inorganic carbon to make organic molecules.

a)

Autotrophs

b)

Heterotrophs

c)

Chemotrophs

d)

Phototrophs

5.

This is the sister group to Eukaryotes.

a)

TACK group

b)

Bacteria

c)

Euryarchaeota

d)

Asgard clade

6.

A halophile is an organism that thrives in extremely ____ conditions.

a)

Hot

b)

Cold

c)

Toxic

d)

Salty

7.

R factors are genes for ____.

a)

Antibiotic resistance

b)

Resistance to denaturing

c)

Robert Koch's postulates

d)

Bioremediation

8.

You have MORE of these in/on your body.

a)

Human body cells

b)

Bacterial cells

9.

Which of these has peptidoglycan in their cell walls?

a)

Archaea

b)

Bacteria

c)

Eukaryotes

10.

One of the things for which George Washington Carver is famous is his insistence on the importance of ____ in the soil, preventing famine.

a)

Carbon

b)

Oxygen

c)

Hydrogen

d)

Nitrogen

11.

This is when a bacterium gains new DNA from dead bacterial fragments in the environment.

a)

Transformation

b)

Transduction

c)

Conjugation

12.

A comma-shaped bacterium is a ____.

a)

Bacillus

b)

Coccus

c)

Vibrio

d)

Spirillum

13.

Which of these form endospores?

a)

Bacteria

b)

Archaea

14.

Which of these is a method of bacterial reproduction?

a)

Mitosis

b)

Meiosis

c)

Binary fission

d)

Transduction

15.

This is an important method of gene mixing for prokaryotes.

a)

Horizontal gene transfer

b)

Vertical gene transfer

c)

Binary fission

d)

Budding