Quiz - 7.5 Bacteria Habitat

Which of the following is NOT an example of a facultative anaerobic organism?

• hyperthermophiles

• Staphylococci species

• Corynebacterium species

• Listeria species

Temperature and the presence or absence of oxygen are two factors that influence where a bacterium can live.

• True

• False

Facultative anaerobic prokaryotes cannot tolerate oxygen.

• True

• False

_______ anaerobic organisms make ATP aerobically if oxygen is present but can also make ATP by fermentation if living in conditions without oxygen.

• Obstinate

• Facultative

• Obligate

• None of these

You are most likely to find a thermophile at which of these locations?

• Under Antarctic ice at temperatures well below freezing

• In the human body at 37 degrees C

• In hot springs above 45 degrees C at Yellowstone National Park

• All of these

A type of heterotrophic metabolism called _____ is used in the absence of oxygen to make ATP.

• transfusion

• aerobic metabolism

• fermentation

• osmosis

Facultative anaerobic organisms cannot survive in oxygen.

• True

• False

Obligate aerobes must live in habitats where there is oxygen.

• True

• False

In a type of heterotrophic metabolism called fermentation, organic carbon is used as a terminal electron acceptor.

• True

• False

Prokaryotes that require molecular oxygen in order to grow are called _____.

• aerobes

• anaerobes

• obligate anaerobes

• All of these