Golden Age of Microbiology

Question 1

1665

Answer 1

Hooke, 1st observation of cells

Question 2

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 2

1673, 1st observation of live micro

Question 3

Nomenclature of organisms

Answer 3

1735, Linnaeus

Question 4

1798, Jenner

Answer 4

1st vaxx

Question 5

Bassi

Answer 5

Silkworm fungus, 1835

Question 6

Childbirth fever

Answer 6

1840, Semmelweis

Question 7

1853

Answer 7

DeBary, Fungal Plant Disease

Question 8

Pasteur

Answer 8

1857-1861, Fermentation and Pasteurization

Question 9

1867, Lister

Answer 9

Aseptic surgery

Question 10

Koch

Answer 10

1876, Germ theory of disease

Question 11

1879

Answer 11

Nesseir, Nesseira Gonnorhoea

Question 12

Koch, Finley

Answer 12

1881, Pure cultures, Yellow fever

Question 13

1882

Answer 13

Koch/ Myobacterium Tuberculosis, Hess/Solid agar media

Question 14

Koch, Metchnikoff

Answer 14

1883, 1884 Vibrio cholorea, Phagocytosis

Question 15

Gram staining procedure, Escherchia coli (travelers diarrhea)

Answer 15

1884, Gram, Escherich

Question 16

1887, Petri

Answer 16

Petri dish

Question 17

Kitasato

Answer 17

1889, Clostridium tetani (Tetanus)

Question 18

Von Bering, Erlich

Answer 18

1890, Diptheria toxin (corynebacterium dipthheriate) / Theory of immunity

Question 19

1898

Answer 19

Shiga, shiga toxin (shigellosis, bascillary dysentry)

Question 20

1908, Erlich

Answer 20

Syphillis

Question 21

Trypanosoma cruzi (American trypanosomiasis)

Answer 21

1910, Chagas

Question 22

1911, Rous

Answer 22

Tumor causing virus

Question 23

1928

Answer 23

Fleming, Chain, Florey, Penicillin

Question 24

Lancefield

Answer 24

1934, Streptococcal antigens

Question 25

Bacterial conjugation

Answer 25

1946, Ladeberg/Tatum

Question 26

Watson, crick

Answer 26

1953, DNA Structure

Question 27

1959, Jacob/Monod

Answer 27

Protein synthesis regulation

Question 28

1962

Answer 28

Edelman, Porter / Antibodies

Question 29

Epstein, Achong, Barr

Answer 29

1964, Epstein-barr (infectious mononucleosis)

Question 30

Genetic engineering

Answer 30

1973/ Berg, Boyer, Cohen

Question 31

1975/ Dulbecco, Temin, Baltimore

Answer 31

Reverse Transcriptase

Question 32

Woese

Answer 32

1978, Archae

Question 33

1981

Answer 33

Marguilis, origin of eukaryotic cell

Question 34

Structure of tobacco mosaic virus

Answer 34

1982, Klug

Question 35

1983, Mcclintock

Answer 35

Transporons (Segment of DNA)

Question 36

Prions (proteins- fold abnormally to brain)

Answer 36

1997, Prusiner