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Which is Not made of cells?
A.Fungus E. Protozoan
B. Bacterium
C. Virus
D. Archeaon - C. Virus
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What Substance made by animals is needed by plants?
A. Caron Dioxide
B.Sugars
C.Oxygen
D. Badger - A. Carbon Dioxide
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What substance made by plants is needed by animals?
A.Carbon Dioxide
B. Sugars
C. Water
D. Badger - B. Sugars
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Which biological "fixation" process is EXCLUSIVELY microbial?
A. Nitrogen Fixation
B. Carbon Fixation - A. Nitrogen Fixation
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Which place is NOT a major source of methane?
A.Swamps
B.Termites
C. Sewage Treatment plants
D. Rice Fields - C. Sewage Treatment plants
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Which of the following has NOT increased in Earth's atmosphere the last 50 years?
A. Oxygen
B. Carbon Dioxide
C. Methane
D. Average Temperature - A. Oxygen
- A legume is an example of what type of plant-microbe symbiosis?
- Mutualism
- What compound do bacteria manufacture to facilitate cloud formation?
- Dimethyl Sulfide
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Dr. James Love Lock was the first to propose which hypothesis?
A. Natural Selection
B. Common Ancestor
C. Gaia - C. Gaia
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How long did it take to clean up the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prudhoe Bay,Alaska?
A. a weekend
B. 6 Months
C. 2-3 years
D. Still working on it - C. 2-3 years
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What was the most succeful method for cleaning up the Valdez oil spill?
A. Hot Steam
B. Scrubbing Rocks
C. Soap
D. Enhancing local microbes - D. Enhancing local microbes
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Which of the following is Not a controversial idea proposed by Charles Darwin?
A. Natural Selection
B. Evolution
C. Common Ancestor - B. Evolution
- What molecule is known as the "machinery" for work in a cell?
- Protein
- Which molecule is called " the blueprint" for how to make a cell?
- DNA
- What does phylogenic analysis determine?
- relatedness
- Which concept states that organisms can be different while appearing alike?
- Volkswagon Syndrome
- Which concept states that organisms constantly change to keep their niche?
- Red Queen hypothesis
- Which concept states that all living things differentiate into species as the result of the action of random forces over long periods of time?
- Natural Selection
- Which concept states that all living things on Earth descended from a single cell?
- Common Ancestor
- Which domain of organisms was discovered using 16S phylogenic analysis?
- Archaea
- Which microbes are thought to be the closest related to Earth's first organisms?
- Hyperthemophiles
- Which organism was isolated near Volcanoes, Italy?
- Thermotoga
- Which bacterial waste product permanently changed the planet earth?
- Oxygen
- 16S Phylogenic analysis confirms what two things.
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1.Common Ancestor
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Which product is not produced or enhanced by an extromoenzyme?
A. Cold-Water detergent
B. Stone washed jeans
C. Low Sulfur Oil
D. Olive Oil - D. Olive Oil
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True or False
a.All microbes are made of cells
b.The best recyclers of biological elements on Earth are microbes. -
a. T
B. T -
True or False
a. The worst recyclers of biological materials on Earth are humans.
b. Most of the Carbon and Nitrogen on Earth are unvailable for biological use. -
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True of False
a. Carbon Dioxide levels in the Earth's atmoshpere have stayed at the same for the last 150 years.
b. A legume is a plant that fixes carbon for a microbe that fixes nitrogen. -
a.F
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True or False
a. The plants-mycorrhizae fungus is an example of a parasitic relationship.
b.Denitrifying soil bacteria can turn chemically produced fertilizers into nitrogen gas. -
a. F
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True or False
a. Man was the first creature on Earth to use antibiotic-producing microbes to improve its life.
b. The primary producers in a Deep Vent ecosystem are non-photosynthetic microbes. -
a. F
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True or False
a.The primary producers in ocean ecosystems are photosynthetic microbes.
b. Oil is a recyclable resource. -
a. T
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True or False
a.Bioremediation is the use of microbes to decontaminate water or soil containing hydrocarbons.
b.The cheapest way to romove hydrocarbons from soil is to incinerate. -
a. T
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True or False
a.DNA is the molecule that encodes the plan for how to make proteins.
b.Darwin's controversial theories were eventually proved to be true using microbes. -
a. T
b. T -
True or False
a. The Three Domains of life are Animial, Vegetable, and Mineral.
b. The Polymerase Chain Reaction made the rapid copying of small amounts of DNA possible. -
a.F
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True or False
a. A molecular clock is a gene that changes very quickly to make proteings that change function.
b.Many extremozymes have commercial potential -
a. F
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True or False
a. The hotter the growth temperature of a hyperthermophile, the closer is 16S sequence will place it to the root of its phylogenic branch. - True
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True or False
a.PCR confirms that there are only a few kinds of microbes in the human month.
b. PCR discovered that there are hundreds of different kinds of microbes in hot springs. -
a.F
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True or False
Microbes are involved in every aspect of human life on planet Earth. - T