micro lecture chapter 1 (1) Flashcards
7 levels of classification (in order)
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Cell Theory: 3 statements
1) The cell is the basic living unit.
2) All living organisms are composed of one or more cells.
3) Living cells must arise from pre-existing living cells.
Three groups of microbes: Prokaryotic
bacteria and archaea
Three groups of microbes: Eukaryotic
Paramecium, Euglena, yeast
Three groups of microbes: Noncellular
viruses
discovered cells
Hooke
Shot down Spontaneous Generation for big
things like maggots.
Redi
-Discovered microorganisms.
-Considered to be the first microbiologist.
Leeuwenhoek
Wrote about the “vital force” that he believed
allowed microbes to generate from water.
Needham
Discovered binary fission. He believed that
microbes could not generate from water.
Spallanzani
Developed the first safe and effective vaccine.
Jenner
-Made people understand that wound infections were
very common everywhere.
-Forced people to make patient treatment areas much cleaner.
Nightingale
SAPSV
-Shot down Spontaneous Generation for microorganisms.
-Figured out that yeast do a process called Alcoholic
Fermentation to make the alcohol for beer, wine, etc.
-Developed a process to disinfect a liquid that became
known as Pasteurization.
-Figured out the cause of the silkworm disease.
-Created the term vaccine and created the first
rabies vaccine.
Pasteur
The first person ever to use antiseptics in healthcare.
Lister
SHOPK
-Invented a process to stain bacteria.
-Invented a slide called the hanging drop prep
to study live microbes all day.
-Invented the idea of using oil to improve the
resolving power of a microscope.
-Invented a technique for growing pure cultures
of bacteria on agar plates.
-Invented Koch’s postulates–a process to prove
a certain microbe is causing a certain disease.
Koch
