Module 1 Flashcards
Who is the English physicist that looked at a silver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed pores or cells in it? First person to use the word cell and published micrographia
Robert Hooke
Father of Microbiology, “wee animacules”
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Theory that life spontaneously developed from non living matter. according to it, a “vital force” forms life
Spontaneous generation
Alternative hypothesis: living organism arise from pre existing living cells (Rudolf Virchow)
Biogenesis
Spontaneous generation is a theory made by?
Francisco Redi
Who made the discovery of fermentation, disprove spontaneous generation, pasteurization and s shaped flask that let air in but microbes out?
Louis pasteur
Responsible for fermentation?
Yeast
Sour wine contained _ that use alcohol yo produce vinegar (acetic acid)?
Bacteria
Application of high heat for a short time is called?
Pasteurization
Who used a chemical disinfectant to prevent surgical wound infections?
Joseph lister
Who proposed germ theory of disease?
Robert koch
Gelatin like product derived from seaweed?
Agar
- Specific microorganisms is present in all cases of the disease
- Organism canbe obtained in pure culture outside of the host
- Organism when re-inoculated into host causes the same symptoms
- Organism can be isolated in pure culture from experimentally infected host
Koch postulates
Who discovered the first antibiotic?
Alexander Fleming
What microorganism is pinicillin made of that kill S. Aureus?
Penicillium fungus
Who is the german physician that speculated about a magic bullet that could hunt down and destroy pathogens without harming the host?
Paul ehrlich
Father of modern microbiology?
Louis pasteur