Classification, Viruses and Bacteria

Question 1

What evidence is used now that Linnaeus did not use in classification?

Accepted Answer

DNA evidence and the fossil record

Question 2

What are two main structural features of viruses?

Accepted Answer

genetic material and protein capsid

Question 3

How do bacteria exchange genetic material through their pili?

Accepted Answer

conjugation

Question 4

Which two taxa make up the 2-part naming system of binomial nomenclature?

Accepted Answer

genus and species

Question 5

What defines a prokaryote?

Accepted Answer

No nucleus but has ribosomes

Question 6

Which of the following is not one of the six kingdoms?

Accepted Answer

Moneran

Question 7

Organisms that use inorganic chemicals as their energy source.

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Chemoautotroph

Question 8

This enzyme is used to make a DNA copy of a retrovirus's RNA

Accepted Answer

Reverse transcriptase

Question 9

What kingdom is eukaryotic, multicellular and heterotrophs?

Accepted Answer

Animalia

Question 10

What pathogen is a protein infectious agent?

Accepted Answer

prion

Question 11

What kingdom is prokaryotic, lacks peptidoglycan, and is found in extreme conditions?

Accepted Answer

Archaea

Question 12

What are the 3 domains?

Accepted Answer

Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya

Question 13

Which of the following is(are) ways that bacteria are beneficial to us?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 14

If a bacterium is shaped like spirals, what is it named?

Accepted Answer

Spirillium

Question 15

What kingdom consists of eukaryotic heterotrophs that absorb their food?

Accepted Answer

Fungi

Question 16

An organism that can survive with or without oxygen is a(n)

Accepted Answer

Facultative aerobe

Question 17

What is a virus that specifically infects bacteria?

Accepted Answer

bacteriophage

Question 18

What kingdom has animal-like, plant-like and fungus-like members?

Accepted Answer

Protists

Question 19

An evolutionary diagram that shows how organisms are related based on derived characters is a

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cladogram

Question 20

What kingdom is prokaryotic and has peptidoglycan in the cell wall?

Accepted Answer

Bacteria/Eubacteria

Question 21

If a bacterium is rod-shaped, what is it named?

Accepted Answer

Bacillus/Bacilli

Question 22

Prokaryotes reproduce asexually by

Accepted Answer

binary fission

Question 23

Which of the following is NOT caused by a virus?

Accepted Answer

Staph

Question 24

This type of virus uses an enzyme to make a DNA copy of its RNA after infecting a cell.

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Retrovirus

Question 25

How many kingdoms did we learn are used in modern classification? (typically)

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6

Question 26

What kingdom is eukaryotic, multicellular and autotrophs?

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Plantae

Question 27

We study viruses because they infect living things.

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True

Question 28

If a bacterium is spherical, what is it named?

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Coccus

Question 29

What is a dichotomous key used for?

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To identify an unknown organism

Question 30

What is the broadest taxon that includes the most diverse set of organisms?

Accepted Answer

kingdom

Question 31

What is the largest (in numbers) group of organisms on Earth?

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Bacteria

Question 32

A group of organisms that can reproduce and make fertile offspring is a

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species

Question 33

An organism that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen is known as an

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Obligate anaerobe

Question 34

How many domains are used for classification?

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3

Question 35

Antibiotics are used to kill living microbes like bacteria.

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True

Question 36

Why is sterilization a good method of controlling bacteria?

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They don't survive in high temperatures for long periods.

Question 37

What is different about bacteria and archaeabacteria?

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Archaea live in extreme environments.

Question 38

Which man came up with the system of classification and binomial nomenclature?

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Linnaeus

Question 39

The small projections on bacteria (more numerous than flagella) used in conjugation are

Accepted Answer

pili

Question 40

Which type of infection may go unnoticed by the host cell until it enters a lytic phase?

Accepted Answer

lysogenic infection

Question 41

What is the science of classification?

Accepted Answer

Taxonomy

Question 42

What is the earliest known group of living organisms on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Prokaryotes/Bacteria

Question 43

Which taxon includes many species that are similar to one another?

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genus

Question 44

When bacteria are used to help clean up oil spills that is called

Accepted Answer

bioremediation

Question 45

What pathogen is only made of nucleic acids and infects plants?

Accepted Answer

viroid

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