History of Microbiology

Question 1

what was the black death originally hypotheiszed to be

Answer 1

planetary alignment causing bad air

Question 2

robert hooke

Answer 2

-created the first known depictions of microorganisms
-microscope pioneer

Question 3

antoni van leeuwenhoek

Answer 3

-microscope builder
-father of microbiology
-first person to see bacteria
-animalcules

Question 4

spontaneous generation

Answer 4

-life can emerge spontaneously from non-living materials
-prevailing concept for long time

Question 5

who created teh recipe for spontaneous geenration of mice

Answer 5

-jan baptist von helmont

Question 6

louis pasteur

Answer 6

-disproved spontaneous generation
-sterilization techniques
-understadning fermentation
-vaccine development
-swan neck flask experiment (slide 9, 10)

Question 7

germ theory of disease

Answer 7

-speculation by many that microbes caused disease
-pastuer and others provided work that disease is caused by microbes
-robert koch provided definitive evidence

Question 8

koches postulates diagram

Answer 8

Question 9

koches postulates limitations

Answer 9

-just because you cant culture a pathogen doesnt mean it doesnt cause disease
-some disease casuing microbes can be present in healthy people and only cause disease in certain people/conditions

Question 10

pure colony isolation was developed by

Answer 10

-fannie, hesse and richard petri

Question 11

robert koche

Answer 11

-method and principles led to isolation of bacterial cultures
-rigorisly proed the cause of bacterial disease
-discovered tuberculosis and cholera causes