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Lecture 1 Flashcards

Microorganisms

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organisms too small to be seen without the unaided eye

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Microorganisms

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2
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Rapidly growing cell, specifically pathogenic

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Germs

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3
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Two things knowledge of microbes helps humans with

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Prevent food spoilage. Prevent disease occurrence

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4
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Beneficial actions of microbes

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Decompose organic waste, production of fermented foods (wine, cheese, bread), generate organic molecules and O2 by photosynthesis

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5
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How do microbes generate organic molecules and O2

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Photosynthesis

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6
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Destructive actions of microbes include

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Spoilage of food, disease causing, can be toxic

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7
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Who established the system of scientific nomenclature including rational naming of all organisms and binary nomenclature

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Linnaeus

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8
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How many names does each organism have?

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2

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9
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What are the 2 names of each organism

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the genus and specific epihet

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10
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What type of species are humans

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homo sapiens

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11
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Who discovered E. coli

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Theodor Escherich

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12
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No cell or nucleus

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Prokaryotes

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13
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Bacteria and Archaea are examples of

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Prokaryotes

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14
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Defined nucleus

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Eukaryotes

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15
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Fungi is an example of

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eukaryotes

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16
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protozoa and algae are examples of

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eukaryotes

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17
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Non cellular infective entities

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viruses

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18
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Prokaryotes with a different cell wall and unique rRNA signatures that are frequent in extreme environments

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Archaea

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19
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Unicellular prokaryotes, peptidoglycan cell walls

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Bacteria

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20
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How is bacteria reproduced?

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Binary fission

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21
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Mostly immobile, multicellular with diverse cell types, use organic chemicals for energy

22
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May be motile via pseudopods, cilia, or flagella. Unicellular eukaryotes, absorb or ingest organic chemicals

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Algae are what kind of organisms? Prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

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eukaryotes

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What is a eukaryote that uses photosynthesis for energy with cellulose cell walls and produce molecular oxygen and organic compounds? Aquatic habitats

25
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What kind of organisms are multicellular animal parasites

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Eukaryotes

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Non living microbes that are acellular, consist of DNA or RNA core of hereditary material

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Can replicate only when they are in a living host

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Core is surrounded by a protein coat

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What year were first microbes observed

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This person reported that living things were composed of little boxes or cells

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Robert Hooke

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Said cells arise from preexisting cells

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Rudolf Virchow

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All living things are composed of cells, structural and functional units, and come from preexisting cells

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Cell theory

33
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What years were the golden age of microbiology

34
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Whose work started the Golden Age of Micro?

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Louis Pasteur’s work

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This persons discoveries included the relationship between microbes and disease, immunity, and antimicrobial drugs

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Louis Pasteur

36
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Showed that microbes are responsible for fermentation in wine and beer

37
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Advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from on OB patient to another

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Ignaz Semmelweis

38
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Used chemical disinfectant to infections wound during surgery

39
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proved that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided experimental steps

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Robert Koch

40
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prove that specific microbes cause specific disease

41
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Protection by vaccination is called

42
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vaccination derives from the word vacca which means

43
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Treatment with chemicals is called

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chemotherapy

44
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Used to treat infectious disease and can be synthetic drugs or antibiotics (natural products)

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Chemotherapeutic agents

45
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This person speculated about a “magic bullet”

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Paul Ehrlich

46
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This would be able to destroy a pathogen without harming the host

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magic buller

47
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invented a drug to treat syphilis (salvarsan)

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Paul Ehrlich

48
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Who discovered the first antibiotic ?

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Alexander Fleming

49
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What was the name of the first antibiotic ?

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Penicillin

50
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Study of how microbes inherit traits

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Microbial genetics

51
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Study of how genetic information is transmitted

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Molecular biology

52
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Generates DNA artificially made combining two or more different sources

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Recombinant DNA technology

Microbiology 108 UCC (4 decks)

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