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CLICKER QUESTIONS

For CAMPBELL BIOLOGY, NINTH EDITION


Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson

Chapter 27

Bacteria and Archaea


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Questions prepared by

William Wischusen
Louisiana State University

Michael Dini
Texas Tech University

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Prokaryotes lack the nucleus found in


eukaryotic cells. As a result, prokaryotic cells
do not contain which of the following?
a) a nuclear membrane
b) DNA
c) one or more chromosomes
d) all of the above

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Which of the following statements best


describes most bacteria?
a) They are generally harmful.
b) They are limited to living in a few habitats.
c) They are very common in the environment.
d) They are responsible for the common cold.

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Which features of bacteria can be considered


to be defensive structures?

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What are the features of prokaryotes that


enable them to adapt so quickly?

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Which of these is LEAST associated with


prokaryotes engaged together in metabolic
cooperation?
a) Mutualism
b) Biofilms
c) Symbiosis
d) Commensalism

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What is true of archaeans?


a) They are the cause of many human diseases.
b) Structurally, they represent an intermediate form
between bacteria cells and eukaryotic cells.
c) They are extremophiles.
d) They have undergone horizontal gene transfer
with bacteria and with eukaryotes.
e) They include Earths first aerobic
photosynthesizers.

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Cyanobacteria that can perform nitrogen


fixation
a) use this metabolic pathway to provide
themselves with glucose.
b) cannot also perform aerobic photosynthesis.
c) provide both fixed nitrogen and fixed carbon
dioxide to other organisms.
d) do so on membranes called thylakoids.
e) are part of the community of organisms at deepsea vents.
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A bacterium that contains both R plasmids and


F plasmids
a) can transfer antibiotic resistance genes to other
bacteria via conjugation.
b) must be pathogenic.
c) therefore has the ability to make and spread
restriction enzymes to counter phage attacks.
d) is, therefore, an Hfr cell.
e) can undergo genetic recombination only by
performing conjugation.
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