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Prokaryotic Cell
Practice Test Questions I
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Free review questions to help students better understand this topic.
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Prokaryotic Cell Sample Test Questions - Part 1
The following questions, from the Virtual Microbiology Classroom, are designed to help students better understand this topic. All questions are based on material that can be found on the Prokaryotic Cell Structure & Function Lecture Main Page.
1. All bacteria are prokaryotes.
a. True b. False
a. True b. False
3. What is the name of the external membrane that is the boundary between the inside and outside of the cell?
a. epidermis
b. nuclear membrane
c. plasma membrane
d. vesicle membrane
e. endodermis
4. Penicillin would probably be a good choice of antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection if the bacteria was:
a. E. coli
d. Gram cracker
5. What structure allows bacteria to survive in a hypotonic environment?
a. plasma membrane b. nucleiod c. ribosomes d. cell wall e. glycocalyx
6. Streptococcus mutans is able to produce…
a. endospores
b. fimbriae
c. LPS toxin
d. a slime layer
e. an endomembrane system
7. A slime layers and capsules are two types of...
a. cell walls b. glycocalyx c. plasma membrane d. fimbriae
8. The genome (genetic material) of a prokaryote is called a...
a. nucleus b. nucleolus c. nucleosome d. nucleoid
9. Peptidoglycan is an important molecule of bacterial cells walls. Which of the following statements regarding peptidoglycan and bacterial cells is NOT true?
a. The peptidoglygan cell wall is thicker in gram-positive bacteria.
b. The peptidoglycan cell wall is the outermost layer of gram-negative bacteria.
c. The outermost layer of the gram-negative bacterial cell wall contains the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
d. Gram-positive bacteria have a periplasmic space between the cell wall and the plasma membrane.
10. Compared to the water, the environment on the inside of the blood cell could best be described as:
a. hypertonic b. tectonic c. hypotonic d. isotonic e. ginandtonic
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