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Microbiology

Short Answer

MicrobiologyShort Answer

Short Answer

26.

What did Thucydides learn by observing the Athenian plague?

27.

Why was the invention of the microscope important for microbiology?

28.

What are some ways people use microbes?

29.

What is a phylogenetic tree?

30.

Which of the five kingdoms in Whittaker’s phylogenetic tree are prokaryotic, and which are eukaryotic?

31.

What molecule did Woese and Fox use to construct their phylogenetic tree?

32.

Name some techniques that can be used to identify and differentiate species of bacteria.

33.

Describe the differences between bacteria and archaea.

34.

Name three structures that various protozoa use for locomotion.

35.

Describe the actual and relative sizes of a virus, a bacterium, and a plant or animal cell.

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