Microorganisms are essential to our life. Each of the following is an example of a beneficial function of microorganisms EXCEPT

Which of the following foods is produced by microorganisms?

Microorganisms are used in manufacturing (e.g., cellulase) and ________.

What is the purpose of aseptic technique in microbiology laboratories?

Who established the system of scientific nomenclature for naming microorganisms?

Each organism has two names: the ______ and the ______ epithet.

The genus is ______ and underlined. The specific epithet is ______ case.

Which bacterium is named after Theodor Escherich and describes a habitat in the large intestine or colon?

Staphylococcus aureus describes the clustered arrangement of the cells and the golden color of the colonies.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of bacteria?

Bacteria can obtain energy from organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals, or ________.

Archaea live in __________ environments.

Fungi have ______ cell walls.

Protozoa may be motile via ______, cilia, or flagella.

Algae have ______ cell walls.

Algae use ______ for energy.

Algae produce molecular ______ and organic compounds.

Viruses consist of DNA or ______ core.

The core of a virus is surrounded by a ______ coat.

Viruses are replicated only when they are in a ______ host cell.

Parasitic flatworms and round worms are called ______.

Name the three domains in the classification of microorganisms.

Which of the following is NOT a group under Eukarya?

Who reported in 1665 that living things were composed of little boxes or cells?

According to Rudolf Virchow, cells arise from ________ cells.

What does the Cell Theory state?

Who described live microorganisms that he observed in teeth scrapings, rain water, and peppercorn infusions between 1673-1723?

The hypothesis that living organisms arise from nonliving matter is called ________.

The alternative hypothesis that living organisms arise from preexisting life is called ________.

Pasteur’s __________________ flask kept microbes out but let air in.

Fermentation is the conversion of ________ to ________ to make beer and wine.

What is pasteurization?

In 1835, who showed that a silk worm disease was caused by a fungus?

Who advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one obstetrical patient to another in the 1840s?

Who inoculated a person with cowpox virus in 1796 to protect them from smallpox?

Vaccination is derived from the Latin word vacca. What does vacca mean?

The protection given by vaccination is called ________.

Chemotherapeutic agents used to treat infectious disease can be synthetic drugs or ________.

Quinine from tree bark was long used to treat which disease?

Who developed a synthetic arsenic drug, salvarsan, to treat syphilis in 1910?

In which decade were sulfonamides synthesized?

Who discovered the first antibiotic in 1928?

In which decade was penicillin tested clinically and mass produced?

Bacteriology is the study of ________.

Mycology is the study of ________.

Parasitology is the study of ________ and parasitic worms.

Recombinant DNA is DNA made from ________.

Who showed that genes encode a cell’s enzymes in 1942?

Who showed that DNA was the hereditary material in 1944?

Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod discovered the role of ________ in protein synthesis (1961).

Bacteria degrade organic matter in ________.

Microbes that are pathogenic to insects are alternatives to ________ in preventing insect damage to agricultural crops and disease transmission.

Bacillus thuringiensis infections are fatal in many insects but harmless to other animals, including humans, and ________.

Through genetic engineering, bacteria and fungi can produce a variety of proteins including vaccines and ________.

Missing or defective genes in human cells can be replaced in ________.

What is the function of normal microbiota?

Resistance is the ability of the body to ______.

Emerging infectious diseases (EID) are: