Intro And History Flashcards
1
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Uses of microbes
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Digest food Bioremediation Food industry Antibiotics and vaccinations Chemical production Drug production Bio warfare Genetic engineering
2
Q
Anton van Leeuwenboek
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Microscope
Teeth scrapings
3
Q
Edward Jenner
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Smallpox
Milkmaids
4
Q
Louis Pasteur
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Anaerobes and aerobes
Germ theory
Cholera, anthrax, and rabies vaccine
5
Q
Robert Koch
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Methods of fixing, staining, and photographing
4 postulates
6
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Koch’s postulates
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- Particular organism found in all cases of same disease
- Microorganism must be isolated and grown in pure culture
- Same disease produced when microorganism from culture is inoculated into healthy host
- Same microorganism must be recovered from experimentally infected host and grown again in pure culture
7
Q
Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin
8
Q
Rudolf Virchow
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Biogenesis theory
9
Q
Name all acellular and cellular organisms
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Acellular - prions, viroids, and viruses
Cellular - prokaryotes: bacteria; eukaryotes: Protozoa, fungi, helminths, arthropods
10
Q
Germ theory
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Specific organisms cause specific diseases
11
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Biogenesis theory
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Life comes from life
