1) True or False.
Nutrient Broth and Nutrient Agar are common media used for maintaining bacterial
cultures.
2) It is important to transfer living microbes from one place to another aseptically. What
does the term aseptically mean?
3) A medium that contains living microbes is called a .
If a culture contains a single species it is said to be a .
4) Plated media are typically used for
a. nutrient broth preparation
b. creating multiple DNA strands
c. obtaining isolation of species
d. blood typing
5) Draw below an example of a zigzag inoculation and a quadrant streak.
6) What were you selecting for in the pGreen Transformation experiment? (i.e.,
what allows you to identify which bacteria have taken up the plasmid?)
a. Cells that did not contain plasmid DNA
b. Resistance to ampicillin
c. Temperature of incubation period
d. Cells that formed a lawn
7) Which petri dish in the pGreen Transformation experiment should have
produced visible colonies?
a. LB+plasmid
b. LB-plasmid
c. LB/Amp+plasmid
d. LB/Amp-plasmid
8) Which petri dish in the pGreen Transformation experiment should have
produced no colonies?
a. LB+plasmid
b. LB-plasmid
c. LB/Amp+plasmid
d. LB/Amp-plasmid
9) Which fingerprint pattern should an exceedingly unusual pattern be classified
under if it may not be placed into any other classes?
a. Plain Arch
b. Plain Whorl
c. Accidental Loop
d. Accidental Whorl
10) True or False.
A negative agglutination reaction indicates the blood type.
11) During blood typing, a blood sample was found to have positive agglutination
for red cell antigen A and red cell antigen B. What is the blood type of the sample?
a. A
b. B
c. O
d. AB
12) Larvae was found on a dead body and measured to estimate the number of days
since death. The measurement of the smallest larvae was 9mm and the
measurement of the largest larvae was 16mm.
When did this individual die?
a. 6 days
b. 8 days
c. 4 days
d. 3 days
13) A wastewater pollutant that is most difficult to remove is
a. Nonpolar liquids
b. Primary sludge
c. Colloidal suspensions
d. Secondary sludge
14) True or False.
Liquids that are classified as immiscible are those that will not mix with water.
15) At what stage of wastewater treatment does aeration occur?
a. Preliminary
b. Primary
c. Secondary
d. Tertiary
16) What does the alum and sodium hydroxide create in the wastewater treatment
tank?
a. precipitate
b. filtration
c. turbidity
d. suspended solids
17) True or False.
Cuvette 1 of the plant photosynthesis experiment is important for setting the
spectrophotometer to 1% transmittance.
18) Cuvette 5 was used as the control in your plant photosynthesis experiment. It
contained all the test ingredients except chloroplasts. Why would this be
considered a control?
a. It contained chloroplasts
b. It can’t be compared to the other cuvettes because it does not have
chloroplasts
c. It showed that plants don’t use photosynthesis
d. It showed that any change in light transmittance cannot be the result
of photosynthesis
19) Cuvettes 2 and 3 demonstrated reactions of photosynthesis. These reactions are
• Cuvette 2 demonstrated that
• Cuvette 3 demonstrated that
20) Cuvette 4 tests the effect of heat on the ability of the chloroplast suspension to
conduct the light reactions in the presence of light. Why did heat affect the outcome?
21) Detecting patterns or changes in transcription in cells is a way to understand
what aspects of cell function?
a. Normal
b. Abnormal
c. Gene Chip
d. A & B
22) True or False.
A single microarray can contain more than 30,000 spots of DNA, each representing a
different gene in an organism.
23) Regarding gene expression and cancer, which genes may play a role in causing
cancer in cells?
Genes expressed in
normal cells
Genes expressed in
cancer cells
May play a role in causing
cancer? (yes or no)
High Low
Low High
Low Not expressed
Not expressed Low
Same level Same level
Not expressed Not expressed
24) Which is a virus?
a. AIDS
b. HIV
c. ELISA
d. Opportunistic Infection
25) Which is NOT an opportunistic infection?
a. Pneumonia
b. Asthma
c. Kaposi’s sarcoma
d. Thrush
26) Benedict’s solution tests for .
27) Iodine tests for .
28) Sudan IV tests for .
29) Biuret test is for .
30) Freebie ?