chap 1 Flashcards
what is miasma theory?
“Bad air” was causing diseases.
who is Hippocrates?
He was the father of western medicine
who was thucydides?
he was the father of scientific history and was also contributed to the early concept of immunity
who was marcus terentius varro?
he proposed that things we cannot see could cause disease
“animalis minuta”- what is known as microbes
who was the first to utilize a simple microscope to view microbes and is called the “father of microbiology”?
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
who was louis pasteur?
-he realized that fermentation and spoilage was caused by microbes
-pasteurization which uses heat to reduce microbial amit to reduce disease
- developed vaccines such as rabies
who was robert koch?
-he established a method for connecting pathogen with specific disease
-koch’s postulates
who was carolus linnaeus?
Developed a new way to catagorize plant and animals
who was ernst heckel?
proposed four kingdoms-animal, plants, protist, and monera
who was robert whittaker?
proposed adding a fifth kingdom-fungi- to the tree of life
microbial classification
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species ,STRAIN
what is binomial nomenclature
-a two word system that names organisms based on genus and species
-Homo sapiens H. sapiens
bacteria
-unicellular
-prokaryotic
-peptidoglycogen wall (some)
-some but not all are photosynthetic
archaea
-unicellular
-prokaryotic
-pseudo peptidoglycogen wall
archaea
-unicellular
-prokaryotic
-pseudo peptidoglycogen wall
