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Ch. 1: An Invisible World Flashcards

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1
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Microorganisms (microbes) are

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Very small organisms

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the scientific name for what microorganism?

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  • yeast
  • makes beer, wine, bread, etc.
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Trichuris trichiura is the scientific name for what microorganism?

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Borrelia burgdorferi is the scientific name for what microorganism?

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  • Lyme disease
  • infected Otzi the Iceman
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Taxonomy

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The classification, description, identification & naming of living organisms

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Classification

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The practice of organizing organisms into different groups based on shared characteristics

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The miasma theory

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  • mal’aria = bad air
  • believed by Ancient Greeks & Romans
  • disease attributed to bad air
  • ancient civilizations developed system to deal w/sewage
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Piptoporus betulinus is the scientific name for what microorganism?

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  • w/Otzi the Iceman’s belongings; believed he was treating health ailments with it
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Mycobacterium leprae is the scientific name for what microorganism?

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  • Leprosy
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Hippocrates (460-370 BC) is considered what?

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  • Father of Western medicine
  • believed disease had natural cause from patients or environment
  • dismissed theory that disease had supernatural cause
  • was a physician
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Thucydides (460-395 BC) was considered what?

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  • Father of Scientific History
  • advocated for evidence based analysis of cause & effect reasoning
  • made observation during Athenian plague that survivors didn’t get reinfected even when taking care of the sick, which showed understanding of concept of immunity
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Marcus Terentius Varo (116-27 BC) was what?

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  • 1st prolific Roman writer
  • 1st to propose concept that things we can’t see cause disease
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Antone van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

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  • Dutch cloth merchant
  • 1st to develop lens powerful enough to view microbes in 1675
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Louis Pasteur

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  • French chemist
  • showed individual microbe strains have different properties
  • demonstrated that fermentation is caused by microbes
  • invented pasteurization
  • developed vaccines for treatment of diseases such as rabies in animals & humans
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pasteurization

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a process used to kill microorganisms responsible for spoilage

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Robert Koch

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  • German physician
  • 1st to demonstrate connection between a single isolated microbe & a known human disease
  • discovered bacteria that causes anthrax, cholera, & tuberculosis
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Anthrax is caused by what

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Bacillus anthracis

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Cholera is caused by what

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Vibrio cholera

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Tuberculosis is caused by what

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Carolus Linnaeus

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  • most famous taxonomist
  • Swedish botanist, zoologist, physician
  • used binomial nomenclature
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Eukaryotes

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organisms with membrane bound nuclei in cells

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Prokaryotes

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organisms without membrane bound nuclei in cells

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Tree of Life timeline

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  • Carolus Linnaeus: only animals & plants (1753)
  • Ernest Haeckel: added protists & monera (1866)
  • Robert Whittaker: added fungi (1969)
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What are the 3 domains?

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  • Archaea
  • Bacteria
  • Eukarya
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What are the 4 domains in Eukarya?

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  • Fungi
  • Protista
  • Plantae
  • Animalia
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Modern taxonomy relies on what?

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Comparing nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) or proteins

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Horizontal gene transfer

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when a gene of one species is absorbed into another organism’s genome

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binomial nomenclature

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2 word naming system for identifying organisms by genus & species

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Haloquadratum walsbyi

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  • archaeon
  • saltwater habitat
  • square cells
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Staphylococcus aureus

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  • gram positive bacterium
  • consists of clustered cocci cells
31
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The manuals used as standard references for identifying & classifying prokaryotes

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  • Bergey’s Manual of Determinitive Bacteriology
  • Bergey’s Manual of Systemic Bacteriology
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Biochemical tests

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used to ID chemicals unique to certain species

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serological test

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used to ID specific antibodies that will react with proteins found in certain species

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DNA & RNA sequencing

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can be used to ID a particular bacterial species & for classifying newly discovered species

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strains

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within 1 species of microorganism there are different subtypes

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E. coli O157:H7

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  • strain of E. coli
  • causes abd. cramps & diarrhea
  • originates from contaminated water or food (raw veggies, undercooked meat)
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size a microbe must be to be seen without microscope

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100 micrometers

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size of bacterial cell

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1 micrometer

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size of animal cell

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10 micrometers

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acellular

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not composed of cells

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bacteria

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  • found in every habitat
  • cell walls made of peptidoglycan
    -determined by general shapes
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peptidoglycan

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composes bacterial call walls

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types of bacteria shapes

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  • spherical (coccus)
  • rod-shaped (bacillus)
  • curved (spirillum, spirochete, vibrio)
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spherical bacteria shape

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coccus

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rod-shaped bacteria

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bacillus

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curved bacteria shape

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  • spirillum
  • spirochete
  • vibrio
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Archaea

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  • unicellular
  • cell walls composed of pseudopeptidoglycan
  • found in nearly every habitat, even extreme environments
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pseudopeptidoglycan

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composes archaea cell walls

49
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Protists

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unicellular eukaryotes

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Algae

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  • plant-like protists
  • unicellular or multicellular
  • photosynthetic
  • important part of many ecosystems
  • many consumer products contain ingredients from algae
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Agar

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gel derived from algae, can be mixed w/various nutrients & used to grow microorganisms in a petri dish

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Protozoa

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protists that make up backbone of food webs by providing nutrients for other organisms

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Giardia lamblia

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  • intestinal protozoan parasite
  • infects humans & other mammals
  • causes severe diarrhea
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Fungi

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  • not photosynthetic
  • cell walls made of chitin
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Candida albicans

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  • unicellular fungus/yeast
  • causes vaginal yeast infection, oral thrush
  • eukaryotic organism
  • morphology similar to that of coccus bacteria1
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Molds

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  • multicellular
  • made up of long filaments that form visible colonies
  • play critical role in decomposition of dead plants & animals
  • produce disease causing metabolites called mycotoxins
  • used to make penicillin
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chitin

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composes fungi cell walls

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mycotoxins

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produced by molds & cause disease

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penicillin

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  • made using molds
  • most prescribed antibiotic
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helminths

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  • multicellular parasitic worms
  • disease involves microscopic eggs & larvae
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Dracunculus medinensis

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  • helminth
  • causes dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, painful ulcers on legs & feet when worm exits skin
  • infection occurs after person drinks water containing fleas infected w/larvae
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viruses

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  • acellular
  • consists of protein & genetic material (DNA or RNA)
  • inert outside of host organism
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Microbiology

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broad term that encompasses study pf all different types of microorganisms

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Bacteriology

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study of bacterium

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Mycology

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study of fungi

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Protozoology

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study of protozoa

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Parasitology

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study of helminths & other parasites

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Virology

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study of viruses

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Immunology

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study of the immune system

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phylogenies

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evolutionary relationships of different species of organisms on earth

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pathogens

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cause disease in humans and other animals

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