Lecture 1

Question 1

List acellular organisms.

Answer 1

Viruses= Protein, Nucleic Acid

Viroids= RNA

Satellites= Nucleic Acid often RNA

Prions= Protein

Question 2

Explain Cell Theory.

Answer 2

All living things are composed of cells and come from pre exiting cells

Robert Hooke

Delivery by med students caused mothers to become ill. He had them scrub up.

Joseph Lister

Question 3

What causes disease?

Answer 3

Germs

A.K.A. Germ Theory

Question 4

Explain fermentation.

Answer 4

Conversion of sugar to alcohol to make beer and wine.

Question 5

Name Koch’s Postulates.

Answer 5

1. Same pathogen must be present in every case of disease.
2. Pathogen must be isolated from the disease host/grown in pure culture.
3. Pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when it is inoculated into a healthy susceptible lab animal.
4. Pathogen must be isolated for the inoculated animal and must be shown to be the original organism.

Question 6

What did the discovery of attenuation lead to?

Answer 6

Vaccines by Pasteur for chicken cholera, anthrax, and rabies.

Question 7

Scientific nomenclature for microorganisms is what?

Answer 7

Two names

Genus= Capitalized

specific epithet= lower case

Question 8

List the cellular organisms.

Answer 8

Fungi= Yeasts, Molds

Protests= Algea, Protozoa, Slime molds

Bacteria= E. coli

Archaea= Methanogens