Introduction of Microbiology Flashcards
Who was the Father of Western medicine?
Hippocrate
Who dismissed the idea that disease was caused by supernature?
Hippocrate
Who believed disease’s natural cause from within patient and environment?
Hippocrate
Who treated people without harm?
Hippocrate
Who was the Father of scientific history?
Thucydides
Who advocated evidence-based analysis of cause-and-effect reasoning?
Thucydides
Who observed that survivor from Athenian plague didn’t re-injected?
Thucydides
Who had first concept about immunity?
Thucydides
Who found that microorganism cause disease?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Who made the first lens to see microbes?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Who researched on wee little beasties as single-celled organism swimming in the rain drop?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Who transformed wheat into mine?
Francesco Redi
Who did flies experience?
Francesco Redi
Who knew fermentation caused by microorganism?
Louis Pasteur
Who found pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
What is pasteurization?
Process to kill microorganism making spoilage
Who invented vaccine?
Louis Pasteur
Pasteur’s experiment:
2 sterile nutrient broth with ….. necks
S-shaped
Pasteur’s experiment:
1st flask: ….. the broth to ….. any existing microbes
boiled
kill
Pasteur’s experiemnt:
1st flask: ….. the swan necks from the flasks to ….. the nutrient broth to …..
broke down
expose
air from above
Pasteur’s experiment:
1st flask: ….. from the air ….. into the broken flasks
dust particles
fell
Pasteur’s experiment:
1st flask: the ….. in the broken flask became ….. - a sign that it ….. with …..
broth
cloudy
teemed
microbial life
Pasteur’s experiment:
2nd flask: left alone; ….. remained near the ….. of the swan necks, but …. gravity into ….. to keep ….. sterile
dust particles tip could not travel against flask nutrient broth
Pasteur’s experiment:
2nd flask: broth in the unbroken flask remained …..
clear
Who refuted notion of spontaneous genreation?
Louis Pasteur
Who found connection between a single, isolated microbes and human disease?
Rober Koch
The characteristic of the first three trees of life
Observation, not genetic evidence
How genetics involve tree of life?
Compare nucleic acids or proteins from different organisms
What do nucleic acids consist of?
DNA & RNA
Who observed gene sequences coding for rRNA?
Carl Waese & George Fox
Who discovered archaea having different RNA from bacteria and eukaryote?
Carl Waese & George Fox
What is binomial nomenclature naming?
2-word naming system for identifying by genus and specific epithet
What can name reflect beside genus and epithet?
Distinctive trait
Founder
What is Bergey’s Manuals?
Standard reference for identifying and classifying
What is Bergey’s Manuals based on?
Nonvisual characteristics
What are big types of microorganisms?
Prokaryote & Eukaryote
What do prokaryote consist of?
Bacteria & Archaea
Is bacteria harmful?
Harmless or harmful
Pathogen is harmful
What kind of cell wall is bacteria?
peptidoglycan
Is archaea harmful?
No
What kind of cell wall is archaea?
Pseudoglycan
What do eukaryote consist of?
Protist, Fungi, & Helminth
What do protist consist of?
Algae & Protozoa
Is algae unicellular or multicellular?
Both
What kind of cell wall is algae?
Cellulose
What does algae do for living?
photosynthetic
What does protozoa do for living?
Photosynthetic & eat organic material
Where does protozoa live?
Free-living or parasite
Is fungi unicellular or multicellular?
Both
Can fungi photosynthetise?
No
What kind of cell wall is fungi?
Chitin
