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1
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What are four general characterisitics of bacteria? JW

A
  1. Single-cell prokaryotic organisms
  2. They have a peptidoglycan cell wall.
  3. They reproduce by binary fission.
  4. They are nutritionally diverse.
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What percentage of alcohol to water should be used in order to be effective and why? MP

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70% alcohol 30% water.

Water has to disturb the bacteria membrane in order to allow the alcohol to work as an effective disinfectant.

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What were Semmelweis and Lister ridiculed for?

         SR
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They clamed that using disinfection and aseptic technique would dedused the spread of disease before microbes had been linked to disease.

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What is Recombinant DNA?

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It is DNA resulting from when genes of two different organisms are mixed.

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Proof that microbes cause disease is known as

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The Germ Theory

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What are the two new forms of vaccines?

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Edible and DNA

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Some bacteria are able to survive on the skin of humans. What types of bacteria are these and what are unharmful bacteria found on humans called? MP

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Halophiles because they can stand salty conditions. Normal flora is good human bacteria.

MP

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Roundworms are also referred as

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nematodes

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What is the most effective way to sterilize foods? MP

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Autoclave MP

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Who first observed “animalcules”?

A

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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What is Biotechnology?

VL

A

the use of living organisms to produce a useful product.

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Who was the first person to link fermentation to microbes?

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Louis Pasteur

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Spontaneous generation

VL

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Living organisms arise from non-living matter.

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9
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What five vital elements do microbes recycle?

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Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Phosphorous, Oxygen

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What are the three essential roles that microbes play?

                                SR
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1) Recycling of vital elements
2) Decompistion
3) Foundation of many food chains

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WHAT ARE EXTREMEOPHILES?

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THEY ARE ARCHAEA

GROW BEST UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS

EX: HIGH TEMPERATURES, HIGH SALT CONCENTRATIONS, HIGH Ph

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What are three factors that contribute to nosocomial infections? JW

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  1. resistant microbes
  2. compromised hosts
  3. hospital transmission
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What does Biogenesis refer to?

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Living organisms that only arise from pre-existing living organisms.

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Is normal flora an example of infection without disease or disease without infection? JW

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infection without disease

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What was Robert Hooke’s contribution to the development of microbiology?

VL

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Observed that cork was composed of individual cells.

16
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What is an example of Autoimmune disease?

A

Graves Disease, pretruding eyeballs

18
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WHAT IS NORMAL FLORA?

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OUR BODY’S NORMAL BACTERIA THAT LIVES ON US AND IS NOT HARMFUL.

**MICROBES THAT GROW ON OR IN US THAT DOES NOT CAUSE ANY SYMPTOMS

** DEFINITION PER THE NOTES. MG

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What is a pure culture?

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A

It is a population or microbe that contains a single strain or species of microbes, that is usually derived from a single organism.

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20
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The serendipitous discovery of penicillin can be attributed to who? JW

A

Alexander Fleming

21
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Who characterized and crystallized the virus structure?

    SR
A

Wendell Stanley

22
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Why does penicillin effect gram positive bacteria but not gram negative? MP

A

Gram positives are made of peptidoglycan walls which penicillin can break down. MP

23
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What is the treatment of disease using chemical subsances called?

                                                                                                                                      RA
A

Chemotherapy

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25
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What is Etiology?

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The study of the cause of a disease

26
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WHAT ARE THE 3 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VIRUSES?

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  1. ACELLULAR PARTICULES - NOT COMPOSED OF CELLS
  2. INERT OUTSIDE A HOST CELL - NO METABOLIC ACTIVITY OUTSIDE THE HOST CELL
  3. USURP A HOST CELL FOR REPLICATION - TAKING OVER A HOST CELL
                                                                                                   MG
27
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What are the three general characterisitics of archaea? JW

A
  1. They do not have peptidoglycan in their cell walls
  2. They are extremeophiles
  3. They do not cause human disease
29
Q

Who was called the father of microbiology

A

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

30
Q

Nematodes and Platyhelminths are examples of ____

VL

A

Helminths

31
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What are 5 ways humans manipulate microbes in order to benefit from them?

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  1. Sewage Treatment
  2. Determination of water quality
  3. Bioremediation
  4. Medicine
  5. Food Production
32
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What are the three new emerging diseases?

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1) Ebola
2) Hantavirus
3) Aven Influenza

34
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What are Koch’s postulates?

VL

A

Method used to identify the etiologic agent of a disease.

36
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Who proved that microorganisms cause disease?

                                                       SR
A

Robert Koch

37
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Name the four basic microbes

         SR
A

Bacteria, Protozoa, Fungi, Viruses

38
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Who disproved Spontaneous generation and inturn proved Biogenesis

A

Louis Pasteur

39
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HOW DO YOU NAME MICROBES?

A

THERE IS A GENUS NAME FOLLOWED BY A SPECIES NAME.

THEY ARE BOTH USUALLY DESCRIPTIVE.

GENUS NAME IS ALWAYS CAPITALIZED AND THE SPECIES IS NOT.

THEY ARE BOTH ALWAYS UNDERLINED OR ITALIC

EX: Staphlococcus aureus MG

40
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Who was the first to discover vaccination.

A

Edward Jenner

41
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WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PHYSICAL TRAUMA?

A.) FLU

B.) BRONCHITIS

C.) SUNBURN

D.) ATHLETES FOOT

A

ANSWER: C. SUNBURN

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42
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Who was the first to develop pure cultures?

A

Robert Koch

43
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What are the basic characteristics of fungi?

A
  1. Single-celled or multicellular eukaryotic organisms
  2. Possess a cell wall composed of chitin
  3. All are heterotrophs, do not use photosynthesis
44
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What are the basic characteristics of protozoa?

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  1. Single-celled eukaryotic organisms
  2. Do not possess a cell wall
  3. Classified by their method of motility
45
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Who discovered a “filteable agent”?

A

Dimitri Iwanowski

46
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What is pasteurization?

A

A mild heating to reduce the number of disease or spoilage causing microbes in a liquid.

47
Q

Who developed aseptic technique by trying to prevent childbed fever?

A

Ignaz Semmelweis

48
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Who discovered the disinfection properties of phenol when preforming surgery?

A

Joseph Lister

49
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What is the technique of adding DNA to a cell called?

A

Genetic engineering

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