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Who is credited with beginning the use of simple microscopes to examine microorganisms?
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
What did Antoni van Leeuwenhoek visualize using his simple microscopes?
Tiny animals, fungi, algae, and single-celled protozoa
At the end of the 19th century, what were the microorganisms visualized by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek called?
Animalcules
Who developed a taxonomic system for naming plants and animals, and grouping similar organisms together?
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What is the structure of nucleic acids shown in Figure 1.1?
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How many categories did Carolus Linnaeus group Leeuwenhoek's microorganisms into?
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What distinguishes bacteria and archaea from eukaryotes?
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What distinguishes protozoa from other microorganisms?
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What is a characteristic of algae?
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Which of the following is a characteristic of fungal yeasts?
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Which statement is true about parasites?
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What is a distinguishing characteristic of viruses?
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What did scientists of the Golden Age of Microbiology search for answers to?
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek began making and using simple ______
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Carolus Linnaeus developed a taxonomic system for naming plants and animals and grouping similar organisms together, and Leeuwenhoek's microorganisms were grouped into six ______
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By the end of the 19th century, the microorganisms visualized by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek were called ______
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Leeuwenhoek's microscopes often made a new microscope for each ______
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Leeuwenhoek examined water and visualized tiny animals, fungi, algae, and single-celled ______; "animalcules"
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The structure of ______ acids
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Bacteria and Archaea are ______ and lack nuclei
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Archaeal cell walls composed of polymers other than ______
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Bacterial cell walls contain ______; some lack cell walls
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Much smaller than ______
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Fungi are ______ (have membrane-bound nucleus)
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Molds – ______; grow as long filaments; reproduce by sexual and asexual spores
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Yeasts – ______; reproduce asexually by budding; some produce sexual spores
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Protozoa are single-celled ______
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Most are capable of locomotion by ______ – cell extensions that flow in direction of travel
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Algae are unicellular or ______
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