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Microbiology Midterm Exam This document is meant to be a pre-emptive study tool only. It is comprised of 5 past midterm exams. Questions on current exams are likely different. Use this BEFORE (of course not during!) the exam to study practice questions that may be similar or cover topics on the new exams, and to understand the depth of material covered so you can study better and be more prepared! 1. An irregular cluster of spherical cells would be called a/an a. Palisades b. Sarcina c....

Gas exchange Communication Sense of smell Acid-base balance Expulsion of abdominal contents correct answers What are the functions of the respiratory system? Nostrils Nasal cavity Oral cavity Pharynx correct answers What are the structures of the upper respiratory tract? Larynx Trachea Bronchus Lungs Diaphragm correct answers What are the structures of the lower respiratory tract? Lots of sensory nerve endings Produces mucus Humidify and warm the inspired air Removes parti...

They share the same purpose; internal communication. Some chemicals act as both hormones and neurotransmitters, and the two systems regulate each other correct answers Distinguish between the nervous and endocrine systems. "to arouse", long distance; travel in blood or lymph. Chemical messengers that are secreted by endocrine glands/tissues into the blood. correct answers What is a hormone? organs/cells with specific receptors correct answers What is a target organ? Hormonal, humoral,...

Alfred Russel Wallace correct answers Who co-discovered natural selection? BH Roberts and JFS had a public dispute about evolution correct answers What significant event in church history occurred in ? B.H. Roberts v. Joseph Fielding Smith debate? correct answers BH Roberts correct answers Who primarily opposed Joseph F Smith about evolution? Talmage correct answers Who wrote the 1st Presidency sanction response about evolution in 1931? correct answers Why did the church release...

A pure culture A) is sterile. B) is a population of identical cells. C) is made of a precisely defined chemical medium. D) contains one microbial cell. correct answers b Microbial cells first evolved on Earth approximately ________ _______ years ago. A) 1.6 to 1.8 million B) 7.0 to 7.2 million C) 3.8 to 3.9 billion D) 10.5 to 11.5 billion E) None of the above correct answers c Predict how Pasteur's conclusions on spontaneous generation with swan flasks would have changed if he w...

Evolution is the unifying concept of biology correct answers Dobzhansky Ophelia Syndrome correct answers Being told what to do or how to think; Thomas Plummer What are the six cures to Ophelia Syndrome? correct answers 1. Seek out great teachers 2. Dare to know and trust yourself 3. Learn to live with uncertainty (Science exists because of what we don't know) 4. Practice dialectical thinking; Put yourself in their shoes 5. Foster idle thinking (Alfred Russel Wallace codiscovered natur...

Proteins- four things they do correct answers -building blocks for cell structures - form enzymes that catalyze chem reactions - regulate the activity of genes - enable cell to move and communicate junk dna correct answers dna that encodes for information not needed in the cell When can chromosomes be seen clearly correct answers during cell division Cell Division is the most.....need what? correct answers ...important bio. process, but you need a blueprint for daughter cells (inheri...

What is relative fitness? correct answers the survival and/or reproductive rate of a genotype (or phenotype) relative to the maximum survival and/or reproductive rate of other genotypes in the population. Name the obstacles of passing on genes (agents of selection) correct answers Survival: find food, avoid predators/parasites, compete/cooperate with others, protection from the elements Reproduction: find mate, surplus of energy to make offspring, care for offspring, defend mating territory ...

Identify the organs of the male reproductive system and discuss the function of each. correct answers -Testes: produces sperm and testosterone -Epididymis: temporarily stores sperm from testes -Scrotum: keeps sperm below body temp -Vas deferens: transports sperm to ejaculatory duct -Seminal vesicle: creates seminal fluid -Prostate: creates prostatic fluid -Bulbourethral gland: cleanses urethra of urine prior to ejaculation -Urethra: releases semen Describe the regulation ...

What is Evolution? and what did it allow Darwin to do? correct answers -the unifying concept for all biology, the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. -account for all biology Describe the ophelia syndrome? How do we treat it? correct answers giving up the privilege to think for ourselves. -seek out great teachers, dare to know and trust yourself • Learn to live with uncertain...

Microbiology correct answers The study of microorganisms Microscopic, single cell , cluster, chains carry out life processes dependently or independently? correct answers Carry out life processes INDEPENDENTLY as SINGLE CELLS What are Viruses? correct answers microscopic, non-cellular, RNA or DNA Bacterial and their processes and their effects on society, humans, animals, and the environment what are the two basic themes? correct answers 1. Basic - cellular processes 2. Applied -...