Microbiology: The Main Themes of Microbiology Chapter 1

Question 0

Eukaryotes

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True nucleus: Complex cell. Unicellular (microscopic) and multicellular, nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.

Question 1

Prokaryotes

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Pre-nucleus: simple cell. Microscopic unicellular organisms, lack nuclei and membrane-bound organelles.

Question 2

Viruses

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Acellular, parasitic particles composed of a nucleic acid and protein.

Question 3

Biotechnology

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Production of foods, drugs, and vaccines using living organisms.

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Genetic Engineering

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Manipulating the genes of organisms to make new products.

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Bioremediation

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Using living organisms ton remedy an environmental problem.

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Photosynthesis

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Light fueled conversion of carbon dioxide to organic material.

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Decomposition

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Breakdown of dead matter and wastes into simple compounds.

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Parasites

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Live on or in the body of another organism called the host and it damages the host.

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Pathogens

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Microbes that do harm.

Question 10

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

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(1632-1723) Dutch linen merchant. First to observe living microbes. Single lens magnified up to 300X.

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Spontaneous Generation

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Early belief at some forms of life could arise from vital forces present in nonliving or decomposing matter. (Flies from manure, etc)

Question 12

Louis Pastur

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Disproved Spontaneous Generation and proved Theory of Biogenesis- the idea that living things can only arise from other living things.

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Hypothesis

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A tentative explanation that can be supported or referred.

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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Observed that mothers of home births had fewer infections than those who gave birth in hospitals.

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Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

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Correlated infections with physicians coming directly from the autopsy room to the maternity ward

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Joseph Lister

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Introduced aseptic techniques to reduce microbes in medical settings and prevent wound infections. Involved disinfection of hands using chemicals prior to surgery and use of heat for sterilization.

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John Tyndall and Ferdinand Cohn

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Demonstrated the presence of heat resistant forms of microbes. Cohn determined these forms to be heat resistant bacterial called endospores.

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Endospores

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Heat resistant microbes

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Sterility

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Requires the elimination of all life forms including endospores and viruses.

Question 20

The Germ Theory of Disease

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Many diseases are cause by the growth if microbes in the body and not by sins, bad character, or poverty, etc.

Major contributors: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

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Louis Pasteur

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(1822-1895)

Showed microbes caused fermentation and spoilage.

Disproved spontaneous generation of microorganisms.

Developed pasteurization.

Demonstrated what is now known as the Germ Theory of Disease.

Question 22

Robert Koch

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(1843-1910)

Established Koch’s postulates- a sequence of experimental steps that verified the grim theory.

Identified cause of anthrax, TB, and cholera.

Developed pure culture methods.

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Taxonomy

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Organizing, classifying, and naming living things.

Originated by Carl Von Linné

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Nomenclature

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Assigning names

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Levels of classification

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Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

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Phylogeny

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Natural relatedness between groups of organisms

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Evolution

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All new species originate from preexisting species

Closely related organisms have similar features because the evolved from common ancestral forms

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Archaea

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Odd bacteria that live in extreme environments, high salt, heat, etc

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Eukarya

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Have nucleus and organelles.

Question 30

Are protozoan considered microorganisms?

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yes

Question 32

What is an area of microbiology that is concerned with the occurrence of disease in human populations?

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Epidemiology

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What process involves the deliberate alternation of an organisms genetic material?

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Recombinant DNA

Question 34

What part was absent from Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes?

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condenser

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Abiogenesis

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theory that spontaneous generation of organisms from nonliving matter

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A hypothesis can best be defined as

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a scientific explanation that is subject to testing.

Question 37

Which early microbiologist was most responsible for developing standard microbiology lab techniques?

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Robert Koch

Question 38

Which scientist is most responsible for finally laying the theory of spontaneous generation to rest?

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Louis Pasteur

Question 39

How would you categorize a virus?

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as an Archeon not living and not alive

Question 40

What does it mean to say that microbes are ubiquitous?

Answer 40

Microbes are everywhere.