HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND TAXONOMY

Question 1

Study of organism that are too small to be seen by the naked eye

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Microbiology

Question 2

Suggested disease is caused by “invisible living creatures”

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Girolamo Fracastoro

Question 3

Father of Protozology and Bacteriology

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 4

First person to describe microorganism as “animacules” / “wee beasties”

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Father of Modern Microbiology

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Louis Pasteur

Question 6

First to create Attenuated Vaccines

Answer 6

Louis Pasteur

Question 7

Discovered Pasteurization & Fermentation

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Loui Pasteur

Question 8

Disproved spontaneous generation and a proponent of Biogenesis

Answer 8

Louis Pasteur

Question 9

Give atleast one example of attenuated vaccines

Answer 9

• Anthrax
• Rabies

Question 10

Developed the antispetic system of surgery

Answer 10

Joseph Lister

Question 11

Discovered Bacillus anthracis & Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

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Robert Koch

Question 12

Discovered culture of bacteria using media

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Robert Koch

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Use of Agar and Petri Dish in cultivating Bacteria

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Fanny Hesse

Question 14

Used phenol or carbolic acid as antispetic

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Joseph Lister

Question 15

Any substance that would allow growth of microorganism

Answer 15

Media

Question 16

Microorganism growing in the media

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Culture

Question 17

Invented the first vaccine from lesions of cow with cow pox’s inoculating a child from getting smallpox

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Edward Jenner

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Discovered salvarsan to treat syphilis

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Paul Ehrlich

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Discovered Penicillin

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Alexander Flemming

Question 20

Also known as first magic bullet

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Salvarsan

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Father of Handwashing

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Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 22

An area of science that deals with the study of 3 distinct but interrelated disciplines

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Taxonomy

Question 23

3 interrelated disciplines of Taxonomy

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• Classification
• Nomenclature
• ID

Question 24

Taxonomy based on
* Traditional
* Genotypic Characteristics
* Phenotypic Characteristic
* Phylogenetic

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Polyphasic Taxonomy

Question 25

Polyphasic Taxonomy is based on

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* Traditional * Genotypic Characteristics * Phenotypic Characteristic * Phylogenetic

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Father of Taxonomy

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Carolus Linnaeus

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Binomial Classification in Taxonomy

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* Family name * Species name

Question 28

list the 5 Kingdom System

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* Monera/ Prokaryotae * Fungi * Protistae * Animalia * Plantae

Question 29

Bacteria fall under what Kindom System

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Prokaryotae

Question 30

Organism population that is differentiated from populations within species

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Strains

Question 31

Variant prokaryotic strains characterized by biochemical or physiological differences

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Biovars

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Strains with distinctive antigenic properties

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Serovars

Question 33

T/F Family name is capitalized and ends in Ales

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False Family name is capitalized and ends in acea

Question 34

T/F Order name ends in eae

Answer 34

False Order name ends in ales

Question 35

T/F Tribe name ends in ales

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False Tribe name ends in eae

Question 36

T/F Genus name is capitalized

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True

Question 37

T/F In transferring species from one genus to another, the species is retained

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True