Microbiology Discovery Flashcards
Leeuwenhoek’s microscope was ____ times stronger than Hooke’s
250
The rise of microscopes conflicted with the theories and how life _______
emerged
Miasma comes from the Greek word _______
pollution
We evolved to dislike the smell of bad _______ to stay safe
bacteria
Cholera is like the opposite of _______ _______ for the chloride channel. What happens in the body?
Cystic fibrosis
When a cell ingests cholera toxin, the CFTR chloride channel proteins becomes phosphorylated and open, allowing water, Na, and K into the intestinal lumen. This results in rapid fluid loss.
What is microbiology?
The study of minute life forms
What is a micro-organims/microbe?
Any living thing that can only been see though a microscope
What are the 7 types of micro-organisms?
bacteria Archaea protozoa algae fungi viruses (even though they're not alive) multicellular animal parasites
When was the existence if microbes demonstrated and by who?
1665 - Robert Hooke discovered microscopic fungi with his compound microscope
1676 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek designed a single lens microscope that could see bacteria and other microbes
Ferdinand Cohn classified bacteria into what four groups?
Spherical
short rods
straight filaments
spiral filaments
What is spontaneous generation? Up until which century was this the prevailing belief?
The idea the living creatures could arise from non-living matter without descent from similar organisms
19th century
What are some examples of spontaneous generation?
Fleas could arise from dust
Maggots could arise from dead flesh
Who was the earliest scholars to propose that life can arise from non-living material if it contained pneuma (vital heat)
Aristotle
Why did Thucydides think diseases could spread from an infected person to another?
He witnessed the plague of Athens. One theory is that the disease was spread by spore like “seeds”/semina
Which roman statesman advised to be careful in the swamps because of minute creatures that can cause serious diseases if they entered the mouth and nose
Marcus Terentius Varro