Which of the following characterizes the Domain Bacteria?
prokaryotic cells, ester linkages in phospholipids
Which of the following statement about Archaea is True?
a) they are prokaryotes, lack peptidoglycan in their cell walls
b) some are thermoacidophiles; others are extreme halophiles
c) some produce methane from carbon dioxide and hydrogen
What are the characteristics of the Kingdom Fungi?
a) Members absorb dissolved organic matter
b) unicellular or multicellular
c) cell walls of chitin
d) develop from spores or hyphal fragments
Which of the following statement about member of the Kingdom Plantae is True?
a) they are multicellular
b) they are composed of eukaryotic cells
c) they undergo photosynthesis
e) they synthesize organic molecules
f) cellulose cell wals
Which of the following statements about Kingdom Animalia is True?
a) multicellular,
b) no cell walls;
c) chemoheterotrophic
d) they ingest nutrients through a mouth
if two organisms have similar rRNA sequences, you can conclude that they
evolved from a common acestor
A genus can best be define as
a taxon composed of one or more species and below family
A bacterial species differs from a species of eukaryotic organism in that a bacterial species
is a population of cells with similar characterisstics
Biochemical tests is an identification method to
determine presence of bacterial enzymes
Morphological characteristics is
useful for identifying eukaryotes
Differential staining is most used for
gram staining, acid-fast staining
Nucleic acid hybridization is based on the fact that
pairing between complementary bases occurs
DNA-DNA hybridization method is
a) heat to separate strands
b) combine single strands of DNA
c) cool to allow renaturation of double-stranded DNA
d) determine degree of hybridization
e) complete hybridization: organisms identical
f) partial hybridization : organisms related
g) No hybridization: organisms unrelated
The phylogenetic classification are
a) the study of the evolutionary history of organism
b) identify all species of life on Earth
The phylogenetic of bacteria is based on
rRNA sequences
Classification of Prokaryotes are
a) a population of cells with similar characteristics
b) culture: grown in lab media
c) clone: population of cell derived from a single cell
d) strain: genetically different cells within a clone
Classification of Viruses
population with similar characteristics that occupies a particular ecological niche
Taxonomy is
a) the science of classification organisms
b) provides universal names for organisms
d) provides a reference for identifying organisms
e) show degrees of relatedness between organisms
Classification of Eukaryotes
a group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves
Classification and Identification definition are
a) placing organism in groups of related species and lists of characteristics of known organisms is classification
b) matching characteristics of an "unknown" organism to lists of known organism, clinical lab identification
Serology test are based on
a) combine known antiserum plus unknown bacterium
b) slide agglutination test
c) antibodies react specifically with an antigen
d) screening bacterial by isolating for similirities
Phage typing is base on
bacterial viruses attack only members of a specific species
DNA fingerprinting profiles provide direct information about
the similarities between nucleotide sequences
Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) are important because
a) it allows for detection of uncultured microbes
b) it demonstrates the diversity of microbes in an environment
c) it allows observation of microbes in their natural environment in association with other microbes
Which of the following characteristics indicates that two organisms are closely related
Both of their DNA can hybridize
A clone is
genetically identical cells derived from a single cell
Which group is a multicellular heterotroph with chitin cell walls?
Fungi
Which group is a photosynthetic cell that lacks a nucleus, unicellular, has 70s ribosomes and a peptidoglycan cell wall
Bacteria
Which group is a unicellular organisms that lacks a nucleus and peptigolycan
Archea
Which group is a multicellular organism that has a mouth and lives inside a human liver
Animalia
Which group is a photosynthetic organism that lacks a nucleus and has a thin peptidoglycan wall surrounded by an outer membrane?
Proteobacteria - gram negative bacteria
Chloroplasts posses circular DNA and reproduce by binary fission
True
The highest level in the taxonomic hierarchy is "Kingdom"?
False
Toxonomic Hierarchy are
a) Domain
b) Kingdom
c) Phylum
d) Class
e) Order
f) Family
g) Genus
h) Species
When building a CLADOGRAM, the length of the horizontal branch is based on the calculated percent similarity between organisms
True