Brief History of Micro Flashcards
Abiogenesis
Spontaneous generation
Who discovered the cell?
Robert Hooke
Who discovered the first microscope?
Antoni von Leeuwenhoek
Who named organisms “animalcules”?
Antoni von Leeuwenhoek
Who observed the first microbes?
Antoni von Leeuwenhoek
What did Francesco Redi do?
He did the meat test to see if abiogenesis is a real thing. He was the first to dispel abiogenesis.
Edward Jenner was known for?
He created the Small Pox vaccine. He learned that cow pox was protective against small pox after infecting his son. Cow pox was a less severe disease.
Louis Pasteur is known for what?
He did the broth in the swan neck flask and finally dispelled abiogenesis.
Biogenesis
A cell comes from a cell (Virchow)
What was Robert Koch famous for?
He introduced Koch’s Postulates. Essentially, he proved that bacteria could cause a disease by infecting a rat.
Drs. Ignaz Sammelweis and Joseph Lister (and others) did what?
Started the “aseptic” technique by using chemicals to sanitize at hospitals which lessened diseases and infection.
Paul Ehrlich did what?
He found that the drug “salvarsan, an arsenic-containing compound could treat syphilis. It was first known as chemotherapy.
Who accidentally discovered Penicillin?
Alexander Flemming
Chemotherapy means what?
It’s a chemical agent used to treat a disease
Escherichia coli
E. Coli
Nomenclature means:
The first word (genus) is capitalized and the second word is lower case. The first time you use the word in a paper, you write the whole word out and thereafter, you abbreviate. When typing, you use italics and when handwriting, you underline.
Agar plates
Agar is made from algae. It’s a solidifying agent, solid agent and sterile liquid is poured into petri plates
Broth media
liquid media without the agar
