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Micro EX 1: Microbiology Flashcards

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Study of bacteria

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Bacteriology

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The study of microorganisms, includes bacteria, fungi, viruses and pathogenic Protozoa, and the diseases they cause

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Microbiology

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Examples of bacteriology

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E. Coli, staph, strep, salmonella

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Study of fungi

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Mycology

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Examples of mycology

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Yeast, ring worms and mushrooms

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Study of viruses

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Virology

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Examples of virology

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HIV, Colds, Rhinovirus and influenza

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Study of parasites

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Parasitology

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Examples of parasitology

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Worms and protozoans

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Study of protozoans

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Protozology

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Examples of protozology

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Paramecium, amoeba, plasmodium

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Study of parasitic worms

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Helminthology

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Examples of helminthology

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Flukes, tapeworms, and hookworms

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Scientific naming system is called

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Binomial nomenclature

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What kingdom?

  • eukaryotes
  • multicellular
  • photosynthetic usually
  • cell wall made of cellulose
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Plantae

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What kingdom?

  • eukaryotes (true nucleus)
  • multicellular
  • ingest food usually
  • no cell wall
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Animalia

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What kingdom?

  • eukaryotes
  • unicellular of multicellular
  • saprophytic usually
  • cell wall usually chitin
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Fungi

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What kingdom?

  • eukaryotes
  • unicellular or multicellular
  • ingest food (protozoans) or photosynthetic (algae other than blue green)
  • cell wall in algae usually cellulose & protozoans have no cell wall
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Protista “junk drawer”

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What kingdom?

  • prokaryotes
  • unicellular
  • saprophytes or photosynthetic usually
  • cell wall normally peptidoglycan
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Monera (eubacteria & archae)

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Examples of monera (eubacteria & archae)

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Bacteria, blue-green algae=Cyanobacteria

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Examples of kingdom Protista

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Paramecium, amoeba, kelp, sargassum, euglena, diatoms

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Examples of kingdom fungi

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Mushrooms, yeast, ringworm, penicillium

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Examples of kingdom animalia

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Parasitic worms, flies, mosquitoes, ticks people

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Example of kingdom plantae

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All flowering plants, mosses, ferns

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What kingdoms are eukaryotes?

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Protista, fungi, animalia, plantae

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What kingdoms are prokaryotes?

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Monera (Archaebacteria & Eubacteria)

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Kingdom Monera is now split into the:

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Eubacteria & archaebacteria

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In binomial nomenclature the genus is ________ & the whole name is ___________ or _____________

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Capitalized; italicized or underlined

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The species we belong to is:

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Homo sapiens

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The species names is always the___________ (specific epithet or trivial name)

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Genus name

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What is the purpose of the scientific naming system

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Cuts down on confusion

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Gram + is what stain color?

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Purple

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Gram - is what stain color?

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Pink

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Who is the father of epidemiology?

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Jonathan Snow

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What is this person famous for?

Felix d’Herrelle

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Bacteriophages (virus kills bacteria)

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What is this person famous for?

Hans Christian Gram

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Gram staining

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What is this person famous for?

Florence Nightingale

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Nurse made sure everything was clean and disinfected; lady with the lamp

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What is this person famous for?

Jonathan Snow

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Father of epidemiology; discovered Cholara:cause by major dehydration and diarrhea

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What is this person famous for?

Ignaz Semmelweiss

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Hand washing before surgery

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What is this person famous for?

Alexander Fleming

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Discovered Penicillium

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What is this person famous for?

Edward Jenner

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Vaccinations of smallpox from cowpox

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What is this person famous for?

Robert Koch

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Systematic methods of sampling infections and diseases to see what caused them

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2 bacterial that caused disease discovered by Koch

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Tuberculosis(TB)

Anthrax

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Tuberculosis was caused by what?

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Anthrax was caused by what?

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Bacillus anthracis

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What is this person famous for?

Joseph Lister

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Disinfectant (phenol/carbonic acid)

“Antiseptic surgery”

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What is this person famous for?

Louis Pasteur

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Pasteurization

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What is this person famous for?

Rudolph Virchow

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Father of pathology

“Cell theory”

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What is this person famous for?

Lazaro Spallanzani

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Spontaneous generation while heating broth

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What is this person famous for?

Francesco Redi

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Spontaneous generation observing raw meat

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What is this person famous for?

Anthony van Leewenhoek

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Father of microscopy; linen merchant

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What is this person famous for?

Robert Hook

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Made 1st microscope; monasteries=cells(empty spaces)

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Define biogenesis

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Life doesn’t just appear it comes from a preexisting life

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Define spontaneous generation

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Life just appears

Ex: strawberries then strawberries covered in mold (mold spores in the air)

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Define abiogenesis

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Similar to spontaneous generation

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Parasitology splits into 2 types called

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Protozology and helminthology

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Koch’s postulates:

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  1. Agent must be present in all cases of diseases
  2. Agent isolated from someone with disease & grown in pure culture
  3. Inoculation into a susceptible organism of the agent-from a pure culture-must produce the disease
  4. Agent must be recovered from the infected inoculated organism & grown again in culture
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Define pasteurization

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Partial sterilization of a substance to a certain temperature to kill of bacteria

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Define immunity

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Protection from a disease

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Define Cholara.

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Major dehydration & excessive diarrhea

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Who discovered Cholara?

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Jonathan Snow

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3 kingdom classification system

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Plantae, animalia & Protista

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5 kingdom classification system

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Monera, Protista, fungi, animalia & Plantae

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Define saprophytes

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Releases enzymes into environment then absorb building blocks

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Define pathogen

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Agent that causes diseases

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Define normal flora

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“Old term” microbes that live on us or in us normally; normally don’t cause problems but can.

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Examples of normal flora causing problems

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E. Coli in the urinary system instead of the colon.

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Prokaryotes vs eukaryotes

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Prokaryotes: no true nucleus-Monera(eubacteria/archaebacteria)
Eukaryotes: true nucleus-Plantae, Animalia, Protista, Fungi

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Which kingdoms have cell walls? And name the cell walls.

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Plantae: cellulose; fungi: chitin; Protista: (algae-cellulose) protozoans no cell wall; monera: peptidoglycan

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Give examples of each kingdoms.

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Plantae: flowering plants, mosses & ferns; Fungi: penicillin, mushrooms & ringworms; Animalia: ticks, mosquitoes & people; Monera: bacteria & Cyanobacteria; Protista: paramecium, amoeba, sargassum, euglena, diatoms & algae

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