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A theory suggesting that life could originate from non living or decomposing matter.
Abiogenesis
Branch of biology that deals with the study of living things so small that they cannot seen with the naked eye.
Microbiology
Ancient greek philosopher is often associated with the idea of spontaneous generation
Aristotle
The concept of using heat is often associated with the idea of spontaneous generation.
Pasteurization
He developed the canning process, which involved sealing food in airtight jars and heating it to destroy bacteria.
Francis Appert
Botulism is a severe foodborne illness caused by a toxin produced by
Clostridium Botulinum
Refers to beneficial bacterial that promote health when consumed.
Probiotics
He developed gram staining of bacterial cells.
Hans Christian Gram
The bacteria responsible for producing vinegar.
Acetobacter aceti
The first person to describe microorganisms
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Who is considered the “father of microbiology”
Anton van leeuwenhoek
It is the conversation of sugar to alcohol to make beer and wine
Fermentation
He proposed the germ theory of disease before its proved by pasteurband koch.
Girolano Fracastoro
He used the word cell to name the microscopic honeycomb cavities in cork.
Robert Hooke
He boiled broth infusions containing living or previously living matter and sealed the flasks to demostrate that no organisms could develop spontaneously in them.
Lazzaro Spallanzani
The scientific study of microorganisms both in food and used for the production of food.
Food microbiology
The discoveryof prions challenged the traditional understanding of infectious agents. What are orions primarly composed of?
Proteins
Theory stating that living cells can arise only from preexisting living cells.
Biogenesis
He heated samples which he believed would kill all the living this and within afew days the flasks was full of organisms again.
John Needham
A giant among 19th century scientists working in microbiology as he dedunks th theory of spontaneous generation.
Louis Pasteur
French scientist first reported a bacillus to be the causative agent for plague
Alexandre Yersin
He suggested that water contamination with feces from infected persons spead typhoid fever and advocated the use of chlorine in the water supplyto overcome the problem.
William Budd
Harry russell showed that geseous swelling with bad odors in canned peas was a result of the growth of
Spores
He used pure cultures of yeasts to ferment beer.
Emil christin Hansen
