Origins Flashcards
Robert Hooke
British natural historian. Mentored by Thomas Willis and Robert Boyle at oxford. Curator of the royal society of London. Constructed the compound microscope prototype. Microphagia
Van Leeuwenhoek
Lens crafter. Observations published by the royal society
Pasteur
Experiments by redi and Pasteur sought to debase the controversial spontaneous generation theory
Redi
Italian physician and natural historian. The flies and flask experiment
Pasteur
French chemist. Stereochemistry, fermentation, vaccination. Sean neck experiment
Robert Koch
Debased miasma theory of disease causation. Herman physician. Bacteriology, pure culture, vaccination. Henle- Koch postulates foundation for germ theory of disease causation. Chain of infection. Anthrax
Carl woese
American microbiologist. Defined a tree of life based on sequencing of DNA encoding ribosomal RNA’s
Traits shared by all domains
dsDNA, RNA pol, protein domains, aqueous cytosol
Things that differ between domains
Size, metabolism, eukaryotes have organelles, gene organization, chromosome, eukaryotes have multicellularity
Margulis
American biologist, FEMALE, proposed in the 1960’s that eukaryotic mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved by endosymbiosis.
Non living particles
Acellular, obligate parasites, no metabolism, do not respond to stimuli, do not grow
Dmitri Ivanosky and martinus beijerinck
Identified the not living traits
Wendell Stanley
First to purify tobacco mosaic virus in vitro. American biochemist and virologist