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Question 1

: The study of living things too small to
be seen without magnification

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Microbiology

Question 2

germs, viruses, agents…” but not all
cause disease and many more are useful or essential for human life ✅❌

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✅

Question 3

Major Groups of Microorganisms

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Bacteria, algae, protozoa, helminthes
(parasitic invertebrates), and fungi

Question 4

noncellular, parasitic, protein-coated
genetic elements that can infect all living things,
including other microorganisms

Answer 4

Viruses

Question 5

organisms without a true nucleus)-

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prokaryotes

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(organisms with a true nucleus)

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eukaryotes

Question 7

• when humans manipulate
  microorganisms to make products in an industrial
  setting

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Biotechnology

Question 8

create new products and genetically modified organisms

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Genetic engineering

Question 9

allows microbes to be engineered to synthesize
desirable proteins (i.e. drugs, hormones, and enzymes)

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Recombinant DNA technology

Question 10

replaces missing parts of defective genes in human
cells through genetic engineering

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Gene therapy

Question 11

use of microbes to
restore stability or
clean up toxic
pollutants

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Bioremediation

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emerging diseases

Answer 12

SARS, AIDS, hepatitis C, viral encephalitis

Question 13

Other diseases previously not linked to microorganisms now are

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gastric ulcers, certain
cancers, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, obsessive
compulsive disorder, coronary artery disease

Question 14

all microbes are associated with disease ✅❌

Answer 14

❌

Question 15

Gastic ulcers cause by
( قرحة المعدة )

Answer 15

Helicobacter

Question 16

diseases linked to chronic infections with microbes or viruses

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Mult Sclerosis, OCD, coronary artery disease and obesity

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Infertility – linked to

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Chlamydia infection

Question 18

The longer you live, the more likely your immune system is to weaken =

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opportunistic infections

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prokaryotic have some organelles ✅❌

Answer 19

❌

Question 20

all eukaryotes are microorgansims ❌✅

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❌

Question 21

All prokaryotes are microorganisms ❌✅

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✅

Question 22

who is harbored and nourished by other living organisms, hosts

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parasites

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Not independently living cellular organisms

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Viruses

Question 24

Early scientists tended to explain natural
phenomena by a ___|___|___

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mixture of belief, superstition, and argument

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When did scientific thinking develop?

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during the 1600s

Question 26

Most use the ______ (using accepted
general principles to explain observations) to apply
the scientific method

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deductive approach

Question 27

Discovering general principles by careful observation
of specific cases is ——

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inductive

Question 28

Experimentation, analysis, and testing leads to ___

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conclusions

Question 29

tentative explanation that can be proven
or disproven, can eventually become theories

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Hypotheses

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can eventually become laws or principles

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Theories

Question 31

Key to the study of microorganisms was

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the development of the microscope

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Earliest record of microbes was from the work of

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Robert Hooke in the 1660s

Question 33

who is created the single-lens microscope?

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Question 34

worked with infusions in the mid-1800s

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Louis Pasteur

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showed evidence that some
microbes have very high heat resistance and
are difficult to destroy

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John Tyndall

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• discovered and described
  endospores, term “sterile” was introduced to
  mean the complete removal of all like forms,
  including endospores

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Ferdinand Cohn

Question 37

-introduced aseptictechnique in 1860s– carbonic acid, achemical antiseptic,
to prevent surgical wound infections

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Joseph Lister

Question 38

1876 - Robert Koch provided
proof that a bacterium causes
anthrax using experimental steps now called the

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Koch’s Postulates

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He was the first to use agar as
solid culture medium in bacteriology.

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Robert Koch

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Originated over 250 years ago with the work of

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Carl von Linné

Question 41

• discovering and recording the
  traits of organisms so they can be named and
  classified

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Identification

Question 42

• the degree of relatedness between
  groups of living things

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Phylogeny