Exam 1 MICRO Flashcards

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Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek

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dutch linen merchant
- created first microscope
- published observations on yeast, bacteria and protozoa
- called them animalcules

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who did important work in the pre golden age?

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Edward jenner
John Snow
Ignaz Semmelweis

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Edward JeNNer

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English Physician, surgeon and scientist
- created a safe and effective small pox vaccine

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John Snow

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English physician
- first medical doctor to study dosages of anesthetics
- grandfather of Epidemiology

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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handwashing

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Louis Pasteur

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Pasteurization, fermentation, silkworms, spontaneous generation, and rabies vaccine

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Robert Koch

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Sharing techniques, specificity of diseas, pure culture techniques, and Koch postulates

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Joseph Lister

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Antiseptic technique

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What are ubiquitous?

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Found everywhere in the world

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What are microbs?

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they are:
- Ubiquitos
- living (viruses are not living) (Structural unit of life is the cell)
- bacteria can be harmful or helpful to life

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Colonization

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Infection

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Subclinical

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infectious disease

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Symptoms

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Signs

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primary pathogen

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opportunistic pathogen

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virulence

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virulence factors

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communicable/contagious disease

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infectious dose

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incubation period

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illness

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covalenscene

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(asymptomatic) carriers

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Acute infection

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Chronic infection

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Lantent infection

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Localized infection

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systemic infection

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bacteremia

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spesis

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toxemia viremia

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34
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ionic bonds are formed how?

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atoms gaining or losing electrons
- produces charged atoms, or ions
- ionic bonds form because of strong attraction between negative and positive charges (relatively weak)

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covalent bonds are formed when…

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atoms share electrons
- carbon and hydrogens bond to for Organic molecule
- strongest hard to break

36
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covalent bonds can be either ____ and _____?

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non polar - equal sharing of electrons
polar - un equal sharing (Pulls)

37
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What are the properties of water?

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  • Polar molecule
  • forms hydrogen
  • solvent for most chemical reactions
38
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Hydrogen bonds are ___ bonds?

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weak

39
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water makes up __ over of all living organisms by weight?

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70%