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INTRODUCTION & EVOLUTION OF MICROBIOLOGY Flashcards

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Specialized area of biology that deals with living things ordinarily too small to be seen without magnification

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microbiology

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study of bacteria

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bacteriology

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study of viruses

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virology

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study of fungi

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mycology

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study of protozoa and parasitic worms

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parasitology

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study of algae

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phycology

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study of worms

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helminthology

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study of the immune system and immune response

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immunology

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study of the organisms (parasites) that take its abode and depend its nourishment and shelter from a bigger organism to survive

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parasitology

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the study and medical implications of parasites that infect humans

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medical parasitology

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microscopic, dominant, and oldest organisms on earth

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microorganisms

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2 types of microorganisms

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cellular and acellular

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prokaryote and eukaryotes are types of ___ microorganisms

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cellular

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examples of prokaryotes

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bacteria, cyanobacteria, archaeans

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examples of eukaryotes

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fungi, protozoa, algae

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prions and viruses are types of ___ microorganisms

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acellular

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17
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infectious particle made up of misfolded prion proteins

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prions

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study of pathogens, the diseases they cause and the body’s defenses against disease

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medical

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19
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monitors and controls the spread of disease in communities

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public health microbiology and epidemiology

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20
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what does NCDPC stand for?

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national center for disease prevention and control

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  • study of the complex web of immune responses to infection by microorganisms
  • Study of autoimmunity and hypersensitivity
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immunology

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study of microbes in their natural habitats

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environmental / microbial ecology

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study of the practical uses of microbes in food processing, industrial production, and biotechnology

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industrial / applied

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processing and disposal of garbage and sewage wastes, and purification and processing of water supplied

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sanitary

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includes any process in which human use the metabolism of living things to arrive at a desired product

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biotechnology

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involved with the relationships between microbes and crops, with an emphasis on improving yields and combating plant diseases

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agricultural

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study of the microorganisms which inhabit, create or contaminate food

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food

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study of the role of microbe sin veterinary medicine or animal taxonomy; zoonotic disease

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veterinary

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study of microbial growth, microbial metabolism, and microbial cell structure

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microbial physiology and genetics

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30
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involves techniques that deliberately alter the genetic makeup of organisms to mass-produce certain products, create new substances, and develop unique organisms

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genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology

31
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give 3 specialty professions in microbiology

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geomicrobiology, astromicrobiology, marine microbiology

32
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when did the plague epidemic in egypt occur?

33
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when did the smallpox-like outbreak occur?

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whose mummified remains showed lesion resembling smallpox?

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book that showed the first recording of public health

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  • 1546
  • invisibe organisms are involved in disease
  • disease are caused by SPORES
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girolamo fracastoro

37
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when was the microscope invented?

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late 16th century / 1590 (fr. other sources)

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  • 1665 microscope was imporved
  • discovered the CELL
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robert hooke

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  • 1668
  • animals do not arise from dead organic matter
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franceso redi

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  • late 1670s
  • invented the single lens microscope
  • observed ANIMALCULES
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anton van leeuwenhoek

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  • father of microbiology
  • provided descriptions of bacteria, protozoa, and fungi
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anton van leeuwenhoek

42
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  • 1745
  • there was a life force that produced spontaneous generation
  • BROTH experiment
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john needham

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  • 1770
  • challenged the claim of john needham
  • heated broth in the absence of air does NOT support spontaneous generation
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lazzaro spallanzani

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  • 1796
  • introduced the first vaccine for SMALLPOX
  • cowpox vaccine
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edward jenner

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  • 1847 to 1850
  • CHILDBED fever is a contagious disease transmitted to women by their physician during birth
  • washing with chlorinating LIME solutions
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ignaz philipp semmelweis

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  • 1853 to 1854
  • CHOLERA epidemic was from contaminated water supply of human sewage
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  • 1857
  • germ theory of disease
  • pasteurization
  • aerobes and anaerobes
  • fermentation process
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louis pasteur

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killing microorganisms in different types of liquids; basis for aseptic techniques

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pasteurization

49
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1881 - developed vaccine for ANTHRAX in animals
1885 - developed vaccine for RABIES

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louis pasteur

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  • 1858
  • challenged abiogenesis with theory of BIOGENESIS
  • “omni cellula e cellula”
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rudolf virchow

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  • 1867
  • aseptic surgery using PHENOL
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joseph lister

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  • 1876 to 1877
  • open tubes of broth remained free of bacteria if air was free of dust
  • tyndallization
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john tyndall

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fractional sterilization to destroy spores

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tyndallization

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  • 1884 to 1187
  • koch’s postulates
  • pure culture techniques
  • discovered the pathogen for TB
  • his assisstant invented the petri dish
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robert koch

55
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microorganisms caused certain disease through a series of scientific steps

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koch’s postulates

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koch’s assistant that invented a round shallow dish with a flat bottom and vertical sides to hold agar or gelatin growth media (petri dish)

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julius richard petri

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  • 1884
  • gram STAINING technique for differentiating bacteria
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hans christian gram

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  • 1890
  • producing immunity by using antitoxin against DIPTHERIA
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emil adolf von behring

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  • 1892
  • first to discover VIRUSES
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dmitri ivanosky

60
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  • 1898
  • mosquitoes carry the MALARIA parasite Plasmodium in their digestive tract
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giovanni battista grassi

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  • 1898
  • malaria parasite in the GI tract of the ANOPHELES mosquito
  • receive the nobel rpize for physiology of medicine in 1902
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sir ronald ross

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  • 19th century
  • developed modern NURSING technqiues
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florence nightingale

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  • 1905
  • SYPHILIS is known to be caused by Treponima pallidum
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first richard schaudinn and erich hoffman

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  • 1910
  • discovered SALVARSAN for syphilis
  • magic bullet of chemotherapy
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paul ehrlich

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  • 1910
  • discovered viruses that could induce CANCER
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francis rous

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  • 1929
  • discovered PENICILLIN from the mold Penicillium notatum
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alexander fleming

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  • 1933 to 1938
  • developed the first ELECTRON microscope
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ernst august friedrich ruska and bodo von borries

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  • 1954
  • developed the first POLIO vaccine
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jonas salk

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  • 1982
  • 1st version of HEPA B vaccine isolated from fresh human blood
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maurice ralph hilleman

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  • 1983
  • isolation and characterization of HIV
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luc antoine montangier and robert charles gallo

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  • 1986
  • discovery of HEPA C virues
  • invention of 1st RECOMBINANT hepatitis b vaccine
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pablo DT valenzuela

72
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when was HPV vaccine invented?

73
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life may arise from nonliving matter

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theory of abiogenesis / spontaneous generation

74
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life must arise from preexisting life

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theory of biogenesis

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