History of Microbiology

Question 1

(400 B.C) Greek Physician

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

Set the Standard for the practice of medicine still used today. (Hippocratic oath)

Answer 2

Hippocrates

Question 3

No advancement in this period due to lack of tools to observe microbes.

Answer 3

(400 B.C - 17th century)

Question 4

(1632-1723) Dutch Dry Good Merchant

Answer 4

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 5

Ground lenses, highest magnification was 300x

Answer 5

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 6

Made approximately 419 microscopes

Answer 6

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 7

Discovered Protozoa and bacteria in water and bacteria in his mouth

Answer 7

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 8

Named bacteria and protozoa “animalcules”

Answer 8

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 9

First to observe bacteria and make drawings

Answer 9

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 10

Sent more than 200 letters to the Royal Society of London with little response.

Answer 10

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 11

Many decades past after this persons findings.

Answer 11

Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 12

(1665)

Answer 12

Hooke

Question 13

Coined the term cell when viewing a cork

Answer 13

Hooke

Question 14

Describes the first kind of microscope that Van Leeuwenhoek made 10 years later

Answer 14

Hooke

Question 15

Microorganism Bread Mold

Answer 15

Microfungus

Question 16

First to observe microfungus

Answer 16

Hooke

Question 17

Term called for the microorganism bread mold

Answer 17

Microscopical mushroom

Question 18

Credited as the first person to observe microorganisms

Answer 18

Hooke AND Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 19

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