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When did embalming start?

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Ancient times

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When did the preservation of foods using microbiology start?

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Ancient times

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Who is the English scientist famous for his work with microscopes?

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Robert Hooke

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When did Robert Hooke study his cells of cork?

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1600 to 1800

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Who coined the word cell?

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Robert Hooke

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What is Anthony van Leeuwenhoek famous for?

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Primitive microscope using ground glass

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What nationality is Anthony van Leewenhoek?

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Dutch

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Who is famous for identifying “animalcules”?

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Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

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Who opens up the science of microbiology?

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Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

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What is Francesco Redi famous for?

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Beginning to disprove spontaneous generation

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What nationality is Francesco Redi?

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Italian

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Who set up jars of meat to test spontaneous generation theory?

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Francesco Redi

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What is Edward Jenner famous for?

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First vaccine against small pox using cowpox scraping.

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What is profession of Edward Jenner?

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Medical doctor

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When was Anthony van Leeuwenhoek’s work?

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1600 to 1800

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When was Francesco redi’s work?

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1600 to 1800

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When was Edward jenner’s work?

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1600 to 1800

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When was Louis Pasteur’s work?

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1800

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18
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What is Louis Pasteur famous for?

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Pasteurization

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What two industries did Louis Pasteur save in France?

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Wine 
Silkworm (silk industry)
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What vaccine did Louis Pasteur develop?

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Rabies

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Who is famous for the germ theory?

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Robert Koch

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When is Robert koch’s work?

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1800s

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When was Louis Pasteur’s work?

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1800

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What did people use to think about germs in 1800s?

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If you were immoral or bad you would get diseases.

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What is step one of Koch postulates?

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Disease and microbe must Always be present in host.

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What is step two of Koch postulates?

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Isolate microbe in pure culture

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What is step three of Koch postulates?

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Infect new healthy host with microbe from pure culture and produce disease again.

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What is step four of Koch postulates?

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Reisolate microbe from second host

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What are three problems with Koch postulates?

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Viruses:step two cannot be carried out because they need a host

Small Pox:only in humans, who would want to participate?

HIV:symptoms take decades to show up

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30
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What solidifying agent did Robert Koch start using?

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Agar

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What did Robert Koch establish?

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Pure cultures using agar

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Who was the doctor who first started sterilizing surgical instruments?

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Joseph Lister, MD

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33
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Who suggested hand washing in healthcare?

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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34
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When was hand washing in healthcare suggested?

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1800s

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35
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When were surgical instruments first sterilized?

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1800s

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36
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When was Salvarsan (first chemical for disease) discovered?

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1900s

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37
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How many chemicals did Paul Ehrlich study?

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606

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38
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What does Salvarsan kill?

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Syphlis

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39
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What is the base of Salvarsan?

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Arsenic

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40
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What did Paul Ehrlich discover?

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Salvarsan and sulfa drugs still used today

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41
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Who discovered Salvarsan? When?

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Paul Ehrlich, 1900s

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42
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Who discovered the first true antibiotic?

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Alexander Fleming

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43
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What did Alexander Fleming discover?

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1st antibiotic, penicillin

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44
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Antibiotic definition?

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Chemical produced by one organism to prohibit the growth of another organism

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45
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When did the mass production of penicillin begin?

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1940s, WWII

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46
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When did the age of antibiotics begin?

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1950s

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47
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Who discovered the structure of DNA?

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Watson and Crick

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When was the structure of DNA discovered?

49
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When were restriction enzymes discovered?

50
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What was the result of the discovery of restriction enzymes?

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DNA could be manipulated

51
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When was polymerase method for copying DNA discovered?

52
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What could be used to diagnose viral infections?

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PCR, polymerase method

53
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Now how do viral infections get diagnosed?

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Wait for body to produce antibodies

54
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When was the Nobel prize awarded for the discovery of prions?

55
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When was the human genome project?

56
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What was the human genome project?

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Discovered the order genes come in, ATCG

57
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When was the anthrax scare?

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Right after 9/11, 2001

58
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When was SARS and bird flu discovered?

59
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What is mortality rate of bird flu?

60
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When did government and world begin to prepare for bird flu and growing awareness begins?

61
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When was the swine flu H1N1 scare?

62
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What are the three shapes of bacteria?

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Coccus
Bacillus
Sprillum

63
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What is strepto?

A

Chain of bacteria

64
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What is tetrad?

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4 cluster bacteria

65
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What is sarcinae?

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8 cluster bacteria

66
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Bacillus, plural or singular?

67
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Bacilli, plural or singular?

68
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Bacterium, singular or plural?

69
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Bacteria, singular or plural?

70
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What is vibrio?

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Rice like shape of sprillum bacteria

71
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What are agents?

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Non-living and infectious

72
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Can viruses replicate on their own?

73
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What are germs and pathogens?

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Disease causing microbes

74
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What % of atmosphere is nitrogen gas?

75
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What are building blocks of

Protein?

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Amino acids

76
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What is microbiology definition?

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Study of little life forms

77
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Are microbes living?

78
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Where are 7 places you expect to see normal flora?

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Nose/throat
Eyes 
Mouth
Skin
Large intestine
Vagina
Urethra
79
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What is nitrogen fixing?

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Microbes that take nitrogen and make new amino acids

80
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What are the 3 domains of organisms?

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Eubacteria
Archaea
Eukarya

81
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What is binary fission?

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Split in two!

82
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Bacteria belong to what domain?

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Prokaryotic

83
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What does prokaryotic mean?

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No organelles, simple cells

84
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What is in bacteria cell wall?

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Peptidoglycan

85
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Bacteria are unicellular, t or f?

86
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Viruses are acellular, t or f?

87
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What is the protein coat on viruses called?

88
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Are viruses parasitic?

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Yes, always!!

89
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What domain are fungi in?

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Eukaryotic

90
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What domain are protists in?

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Eukaryotic

91
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Protists are unicellular, t or f?

92
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How are protists classified?

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By means of movement

93
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What are helminths?

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Multicellular worms

94
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What are prions?

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Infectious proteins

95
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What is the body’s response to pathogens?

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Immune system

96
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What is mycology?

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Study of fungi

97
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What is parasitology?

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Study of worms and protists

98
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What does molecular biology study?

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RNA and DNA

99
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What belongs to eukarya classification?

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Plants, animals, fungi, protistans

100
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Why do we classify?

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So we can predict and not have to start over

101
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What is eubacteria?

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True bacteria, includes pathogens

102
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Archaeabacteria do what?

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Live in extreme environments, deep in ocean/bpiling water/ice

103
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What to eukarya have?

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True nuclei, complex and have organelles

104
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2 parts of scientific name

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Genus and specific epithet

105
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Scientific name is what if written?

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Underlined

106
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Scientific name is what if typed?

107
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How do you write scientific names in papers?

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Write it out first and then abbreviate genus name and write out specific epithet

108
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How do giardi lambia move?

109
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What does giardi lamblia cause?

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Hikers diarrhea

110
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Do fungi do photosynthesis?

111
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What are protists?

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Eukaryotic, multi-cellular

112
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How do protists move?

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Cilia
Flagella
Psuedopodia

113
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Is there genetic info in prions?

114
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How are prions transmitted?

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Through ingestion and cause neurological changes

115
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What is humoral immunity?

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Antibodies made by B cells

116
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What shape are proteins made by humoral immunity?

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Y shaped proteins that have sticky ends and have affinity for specific things

117
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What is cellular immunity?

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T cells do surveillance and kill virus infected cells and cancer cells

118
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Are prions stable?

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Yes, tremendously stable so there is no way to kill them

119
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Dr Bruce Ivans caused what?

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Anthrax scare

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