Micro Intro

Question 1

Discovered vaccine to small pox

Answer 1

Edward Jenner

Question 2

Treatment of syphilis

Answer 2

Paul Ehrlich

Question 3

Antibiotic Penicillin from the mold penicillium
notatum

Answer 3

Alexander Fleming

Question 4

Linked a specific microorganism with a specific
disease

Answer 4

Robert Koch

Question 5

Established a series of proofs that verified the
germ theory of disease

Koch’s postulate

Answer 5

Robert Koch

Question 6

• Developed the first microscope
• Made a crude microscope to examine threads in
fabrics
• Made drawings of what he called “animalcules” in rainwater and scraped from
his teeth

Answer 6

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Question 7

First observations of microbes in the 1600s

Answer 7

Robert Hooke

Question 8

found that microbes in the dust and air have
high heat resistance

Answer 8

John tydall

Question 9

First to utilize handwashing and misting
operating rooms with antiseptic chemicals

Techniques became the foundation for modern
microbial control still in use today

Answer 9

Joseph lister

Question 10

Showed that women became infected in the
maternity ward after examinations by physicians
who had been working in the autopsy rooms
without washing their hands

Answer 10

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 11

Observed that mothers who gave birth at home
experienced fewer infections than mothers who
gave birth in the hospital

Answer 11

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 12

What causes female infertility

Answer 12

Chlamydia

Question 13

Three basic cell lines

Answer 13

Archaea Eukarya bacteria

Question 14

When is the invention of PCR technique

Answer 14

1980s

Question 15

Importance of small RNAs

Answer 15

2000s

Question 16

Genetic identification of the human microbiome

Answer 16

2010s and beyond

Question 17

CRISPR technology

Answer 17

2013

Question 18

Using general principles to explain specific observations

Answer 18

Deductive reasoning

Question 19

The process of discovering general principles by careful examination of specific cases

Making observations through experimentation

A discovery process that leads to the creation of a general principle

Answer 19

Inductive reasoning

Question 20

A collection of statements, propositions, or concepts that explains or accounts for a natural event

Answer 20

Theory

Question 21

The assignment of scientific names to the various taxonomic categories and individual organisms

Answer 21

Nomenclature

Question 22

Attempts the orderly arrangement of organisms into a hierarchy of taxa (categories)

Answer 22

Classification

Question 23

A combination of the genus name and the species name

The genus name is always capitalized and the species name begins with a lowercase letter

Both names should be italicized when in print or underlined when written by hand

Answer 23

Binomial system

Question 24

The genus name can be abbreviated to save space if the genus name has already been stated

Example: Staphylococcus aureus can be abbreviated as S. aureus

Answer 24

Abbreviations

Question 25

From most general to most specific levels of classification:

Answer 25

• Domain
• Kingdom
• Phylum or Division
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species

Question 26

The science of classifying biological species

Developed by Carl von Linné in the 1700s

Lays down the basic rules for classification

Establishes taxonomic categories

Used to organize all of the forms of modern and extinct life

Answer 26

Taxonomy

Question 27

The taxonomic scheme that represents the natural relatedness between groups of living things

Answer 27

Phylogeny