CH 1 DATES

Question 1

1673

Answer 1

first microbes were discovered by van Leeuwenhoek

Question 2

1665

Answer 2

Hooke discovered cells as “little boxes”

Question 3

1858

Answer 3

Virchow presented biogenesis- cells arise from preexisting cells

Question 4

1861

Answer 4

Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation with S shaped flask experiement

Question 5

1857-1914

Answer 5

Golden Age of microbiology

Question 6

1840

Answer 6

Semmelwise advocated hand washing in between OB patients

Question 7

1867

Answer 7

Lister aseptic technique on to prevent surgical wounds

Question 8

1876

Answer 8

Koch discovered germ theory of disease based on anthrax bacteria

Question 9

1796

Answer 9

Jenner inoculated a person with cowpox – first vaccine

Question 10

1928

Answer 10

Fleming discovered penicillin – the first antibiotic

Question 11

1940s

Answer 11

penicillin mass produced

Question 12

1960

Answer 12

Berg discovered recombinant DNA by inserting animal DNA into bacterial DNA

Question 13

1941

Answer 13

Beadle and Tatum discovered genes encode for a cell’s enzymes

Question 14

1944

Answer 14

Avery, MacLeod, McCarty discovered hereditary material is in DNA

Question 15

1961

Answer 15

Jacob and Monod discovered role of mRNA in protein synthesis