History of Microbiology Flashcards
Who gave the first known description of microbes
Robert Hooke
What did Leeuwenhoek do
First person to observe and describe microorganisms accurately
Define spontaneous generation
Idea that living organisms can develop from non-living or decomposing matter
Which experiment disproved spontaneous generation - Who?
Swan-neck flask experiment - Pasteur
What did Robert Koch demonstrate a link between
Microbes and infectious diseases
What were Koch’s postulates
Criteria for proving the relationship between a suspected pathogen and a specific disease
What is a limitation of Koch’s postulates
some organisms cannot be grown in pure culture as they rely on a host
What did Pasteur and Roux discover together
incubation of pathogens for long periods attenuated them so they could be used for vaccines
Who pioneered the use of enrichment cultures and selective media
Beijerinick
