Chapter 1 Flashcards
1
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WHAT WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
A
A Microbial World!
2
Q
Who is Hippocrates and What did he believe in?
A
- the Father of Western Medicine
- Diseases had natural, not supernatural, causes
3
Q
Spontaneous Generation
A
- Idea that Living organisms can develop from non-living or decomposing matter
4
Q
Francesco Redi
A
- Discredited spontaneous generation
- Showed that maggots on decaying meat came from fly eggs.
5
Q
John Needham
A
- Broth in flask -> boiled -> sealed
- Results: Broth became cloudy and contained microorganisms
6
Q
Lazzaro Spallanzani
A
- Broth in flask -> sealed -> boiled
-Results: No growth microorganisms
7
Q
Who is Louis Pasteur? What was his experiment?
A
- Swan Neck Experiment disproves spontaneous generation
- Placed nutrient solution in flasks with long, curved necks. Boiled the solutions let flask exposed to air.
- W/ curve neck: no contamination
- W/O curve neck: contamination
- Develops rabies vaccine
8
Q
Robert Koch
A
- Identified specific microbes that cause anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis.
- established a protocol to determine cause of infections diseases (Koch’s postulates)
9
Q
Carolus Linnaeus
A
- Developed a new system for categorizing plants and animals, Taxonomy! (science of classification, does NOT mirror the evolution)
10
Q
Who was modern vaccine technology pioneered by?
A
Hilleman
11
Q
The single largest known “microbe”
A
covers 9.7 km^2
12
Q
When comparing the estimated number of bacteria in oceans and number of stars in the entire universe…
A
there are way more bacteria than stars
13
Q
As of 2023, it is estimated that there are a total of ____ viruses on Earth
A
-1 x 10^31
14
Q
The instrumental work of L. Pasteur took place…
A
During the American Civil War
15
Q
Which is the following acellular?
a) Fungus
b) Protozoan
c) Virus
d) Bacterium
A
c) Virus
