Exam 1 Flashcards
Robert Hooke
All living things are composed of little boxes or cells.
Cell Theory
Rudolf Virchow
Cells arise from preexisting cells.
Cell Theory
All living things are composed of cells and come from preexisting cells.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Microscope
Francisco Redi
Filled jars with decaying meat. Jars covered in fine net had no maggots. Jars open had maggots.
Where did the maggots come from?
John Needham
Put boiled nutrient broth into covered flask.
- Nutrient broth heated, then placed in sealed flask had microbial growth.
- Heated flasks were transported outside before sealed in a lab.
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Boiled nutrient solutions in flasks.
-Heated in flask then sealed had no microbial growth.
Louis Pasteur
Demonstrated that microorganisms are present in the air.
-Relationship between microbes and disease, immunity, and antimicrobial drugs.
Fermentation
Conversion of sugar to alcohol to make beer and wine.
-Bacteria that use alcohol and produce acetic acid spoil wine by turning it into vinegar.
Pasteurization
Application of high heat for a short time.
Ignaz Semmelwise
Advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one OB pt to another.
Joseph Lister
Phenol solutions kill bacteria in surgery.
Robert Koch
Proved bacteria can cause disease.
-Anthrax was killing cattle.
Edward Jenner
First person to use vaccination.
Paul Ehrlich
Developed first synthetic arsenic drug to treat syphilis.
-Salvarsan
Alexander Fleming
Discovered first antibiotic.
-Penicillin
Rebecca Lancefield
The use of immunology to identify some bacteria according to serotypes (variants within a species).
George Beadle & Edward Tatum
Genes encode a cell’s enzymes.
Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, Maclyn McCarty
DNA was the hereditary material.
Francois Jacob & Jacques Monod
Discovered the role of mRNA in protein synthesis.
How are organisms written?
- Are italicized or underlined.
- Are “Latinized” and used worldwide.
- Genus: first name and always capitalized.
- Species: Follows and is not capitalized.
Why is Archaea no longer a bacteria?
They lack peptidoglycan.
Spontaneous Generation
The hypothesis that living organisms arise from nonliving matter is called spontaneous generation.
-According to spontaneous generation, a “vital force” forms life.
Biogenesis
Living organisms arise from preexisting life.
Experiments that lead to biogenesis.
- Jars covered with fine net vs. open jars with maggots.
- Bioled nutrient broth into covered flask (variables were not controlled)
Virus Fun Fact
Viruses are replicated ONLY when they are in a living host cell.
Microscope Types
- Phase-contrast microscopes
- DIC (differential interference contrast)
- Fluorescence Microscopes
- Electron Microscope
- Scanning acoustic microscope (SAM)
- Compound
Compound Microscope
Has a series of lenses and uses visible light as its source of illumination.
-2 Magnifying lenses
Resolution
The ability of the lenses to distinguish fine detail and structure
-you can see distinctly TWO different objects. (!!!!)
Oil Immersion
Preserves the direction of the lights rays at the highest magnification.
Very detailed as far as things on the internal structures of living microorganisms.
Phase-contrast microscopes
Gives very brightly colored images and has almost a 3D image look.
DIC (differential interference contrast) microscope
The ability of substances to absorb short wavelengths of light and give off light at a longer wavelength. (Hit with UV light)
Fluorescence Microscope
Have a much better resolution and are much more precise than compound microscopes. They use a beam of electrons rather than a beam of light.
-Images are black and white.
Electron Microscope.
Consists of interpreting the action of a sound wave sent through a specimen. So a sound wave of specific frequency travels through the specimen, and a portion of it is reflected back every time it hits a interface within the material.
Scanning acoustic microscope (SAM)
- Very important in the medical field.
- Detect cells that grow on top of things like tissue (tumors or cancer).
- Detects by sound waves.
Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM)
Colorizing the microorganisms with dye that emphasizes certain structures.
Staining.
We will use heat to fixate using the benson burner to fixate the microbes which is called…
Heat Fixation.