Ch 1 Microbial Life Flashcards
What is a microbe?
a living organism that requires a microscope to be seen
Better definition of microbe (due to different names)
Prokaryotes, single and multicellular eukaryotes that do not form tissues, viruses
The 5 kingdoms
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Monera
3 Domains
Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya (plants, animals, fungi)
Florence Nightingale
Founder of medical statistics (polar area chart)
What is Spontaneous generation
Theory that living organisms can arise without parents
Who tested for spontaneous generation?
Francesco Redi (maggots), Lazzaro Spallanzani (sterilization through boiling), and Louis Pasteur (MB fermentation)
Germ theory of disease
Many diseases are caused by microbes
True or False: Robert Koch is the founder of scientific method of microbiology
True
What are Koch’s Postulates?
1.MB always present in diseased host
2.MB grown in pure culture
3.Introduce pure MB into healthy host
4.Reisolate MB from now-sick individual
What was the importance of Koch’s discovery about the principle of epidemiology
Chain of infection/ transmission of disease
Who deliberate infected people with cowpox lesion to build peoples immunity?
Edward Jenner
What is immunization?
Stimulating an immune response by deliberately inoculating a pathogen
Who introduced antiseptics to healthcare facilities?
Ignaz Semmelweis
True or False: Penicillin was not the first commercial antibiotic to save lives
False
