Multiple Choice
Who is considered the “father of Western medicine”?
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Thucydides
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Hippocrates
Who was the first to observe “animalcules” under the microscope?
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Ötzi the Iceman
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Robert Koch
Who proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see?
- Thucydides
- Marcus Terentius Varro
- Hippocrates
- Louis Pasteur
Which of the following is a correct usage of binomial nomenclature?
- Homo Sapiens
- homo sapiens
- Homo sapiens
- Homo Sapiens
Which scientist proposed adding a kingdom for protists?
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Carl Woese
- Robert Whittaker
- Ernst Haeckel
Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree?
- Plantae
- Bacteria
- Archaea
- Eukarya
Which of the following is the standard resource for identifying bacteria?
- Systema Naturae
- Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
- Woese and Fox’s phylogenetic tree
- Haeckel’s General Morphology of Organisms
Which of the following is not a subfield of microbiology?
- bacteriology
- botany
- clinical microbiology
- virology