A Brief History of Microbiology

Question 1

What is the study of entities too small to be seen with the unaided human eye?

Answer 1

microbiology

Question 2

Who is the Father of Microbiology?

Answer 2

Leeuwenhoek

Question 3

What is another name for spontaneous generation?

Answer 3

abiogenesis

Question 4

Spontaneous generations was proposed by….

Answer 4

Aristotle (and widely accepted for almost 2000 years)

Question 5

What proposes that living organisms can arise from non-living matter?

Answer 5

Spontaneous Generation (abiogenesis)

Question 6

Who challenged Aristotle’s spontaneous generation theory?

Answer 6

Francesco Redi

Question 7

Who is the Father of Modern Microbiology?

Answer 7

Pasteur

Question 8

What was Pasteur’s theory?

Answer 8

Germ Theory of Disease

Question 9

How did Pasteur discover the Germ Theory?

Answer 9

Bacteria were responsible for spoiling the wine, therefore microbes are responsible for disease

Question 10

Semmelweis

Answer 10

Discovered handwashing as a way to prevent infection and disease

Question 11

Lister

Answer 11

Use of Antiseptic to prevent disease

Question 12

Snow

Answer 12

Infections control and epidemiology

Question 13

Jenner

Answer 13

Smallpox vaccine and field of immunology

Question 14

Ehrlich

Answer 14

“magic bullets” and field of chemotherapy

Question 15

What was a “magic bullet”?

Answer 15

a chemical that could kill microorganisms but remain nontoxic to humans

Question 16

What is a disease that is arising in the past two decades, either because it is new to the population or because it is newly recognized? (think basic)

Answer 16

an emerging disease