Khan Academy Prokaryotes/Bacteria D.

Gram-negative bacteria are more

Questions
1. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) is an antibiotic-resistant
“superbug” that can cause deadly
infections in humans. What would these
Gram-positive bacteria look like under a
microscope?
likely to cause systemic effects
because their outer membrane
protects them from several
antibiotics, making treatment more
difficult.
5. Which of the following is NOT a method
bacteria use for genetic recombination?

A. Purple Spheres A. Conjugation

B. Clear Rods B. Transformation
C. Pink Rods C. Transduction
D. Purple Spirals D. Binary Fission

2. Methanopyrus kandleri is an organism 6. Scientists have developed a dye for

which lives in a hydrogen-carbon galactose, which turns darker shades of
dioxide environment, and was first blue as the concentration of this
discovered in a hydrothermal vent monosaccharide increases (dose
where temperatures reached 230°F. dependent). In an experiment using
What sort of organism is this? bacteria that can metabolize both
lactose and glucose, researchers set up
A. Protist
test tubes as shown in Table 1. A plus
B. Cyanobacteria
C. Archaea sign indicates a sugar was added to the
D. Bacteria test tube, and a minus sign indicates the
sugar is absent. Assuming bacterial
3. Which of the following is NOT found in concentrations stay constant, which test
both prokaryotes and eukaryotes? tube will show the strongest blue color?

A. Ribosomes
B. Cytoskeleton
C. Nucleolus
D. Double-stranded DNA

4. Which of the following statements about

the systemic effect of bacterial cells are
true?

A. Gram-negative bacteria are more

likely to cause systemic effects
because their lack of an outer A. A
membrane means they can more B. B
quickly infect host cells. C. C
B. Gram-positive bacteria are more D. D
likely to cause systemic effects
because the lipopolysaccharide
(LPS) in their membranes can act
as a toxin to the circulatory system.
C. Gram-positive bacteria are more
likely to cause system effects
because the peptidoglycan in their
cell walls is tough and hard for
medicine to penetrate.
7. What type(s) of cells do you obtain after
a F+ bacterium conjugates with a F-
bacterium?

A. One new F- bacterium which

transferred the plasmid to the other
cell, which is now F+
B. Two F+ bacteria with identical
plasmid and chromosomal DNA
C. Two F+ bacteria with identical
plasmid but not chromosomal DNA
D. Two bacteria with identical plasmid
and chromosomal DNA, but one is
F+, and the other F-

8. Where does energy production take

place in bacteria that can perform
aerobic metabolism?

A. Mitochondria
B. Inclusion Bodies
C. Plasma membrane
D. Nucleus

9. Porphyromonas gingivalis is a Gram-

negative bacterium, found in the oral
cavity, is negatively affected by the
presence of oxygen. What term best
describes this bacteria?

A. Facultative anaerobe
B. Aerotolerant anaerobe
C. Obligate anaerobe
D. Obligate aerobe

10. Which of the following is most

responsible for bacterial cell motility?

A. Cilia
B. Flagella
C. Pili
D. Pseudopodia
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Answers

1. A
2. C
3. C
4. D
5. D
6. B
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. B