MICRO ORGANISMS QUIZ

The Archaea include all of the following except

thermoacidophiles

methanogens

halophiles

cyanobacteria

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The membranes of which domains are chemically the most similar?

Archaea and Bacteria

Bacteria and Eukarya

Eukarya and Archaea

membranes of all three domains are chemically identical

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The unifying feature of the archaea that distinguishes them from the bacteria is

habitats which are extreme environments with regard to acidity

cytoplasmic ribosomes that are 70S

presence of a cell wall containing a characteristic outer membrane

absence of a nuclear membrane temperature

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One of the reasons for the evolutionary success of the kingdom Monera is that its members are nutritionally diverse. Which of the following(s) is/are the way(s) of obtaining energy?

Photoautotrophy

Photoheterotrophy

Chemoheterotrophy

All of these

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Eukaryotic micro organisms include

fungi

all of these

protozoa

algae

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The individual best remembered for bringing microbes to the world is

Antony Van Leeuenhoek

Masaki Ogata

Robert Hooke

Robert Koch

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Eukaryotic cell organelles first emerged

when prokaryotes engulfed each other and became interdependent

just before the origin of the animal and fungal kingdoms

when bacteria made their first attempts at reproduction

from a specialized lineage of cells within the kingdom Protista

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The five-kingdom system of classification was set up by

Robert Whittaker

Louis Pasteur

Robert Koch

Masaki Ogata

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The binomial name of a microbe is composed of

its family and class names

its genus name and a species modifier

its kingdom and genus names

its genus and species names

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Genetic and biochemical similarities between contemporary cyanobacteria and eukaryotic chloroplasts are accepted to mean that

eukaryotes evolved from archaea

cyanobacteria arose from chloroplasts which escaped from plant cells

oxygenic photosynthesis first evolved in eukaryotes

eukaryotes evolved from bacteria

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