Part 1 Flashcards
1
Q
- Smallest infectious agent (__ nm – ___ nm)
- large group of obligate intracellular
parasites capable of infecting a variety of
different cell types. - may contain either ____ or ____ as their
genomic material and this material may be
either single- or double-stranded.
A
Virus
- Smallest infectious agent (20 nm – 200 nm)
- large group of obligate intracellular
parasites capable of infecting a variety of
different cell types. - may contain either DNA or RNA as their
genomic material and this material may be
either single- or double-stranded.
2
Q
____ B.C.
- ______ the 7th Pharoah of the 19th dynasty
was believed to have suffered from
________________ judging from his deformed leg
A
1400 B.C.
- Siptah the 7th Pharoah of the 19th dynasty
was believed to have suffered from
poliomyelitis judging from his deformed leg
3
Q
____ B.C.
- Ramses V’s mummy showed _______________
from __________
A
1143 B.C.
- Ramses V’s mummy showed pockmarks
from smallpox
4
Q
_________ ___________________
- presented a paper about a tobacco mosaic
virus - He showed that extracts from diseased
_______ plants could transmit disease to
other plants after passage through ceramic
filters fine enough to retain the smallest
known bacteria
A
Dmitri Iwanowski
- presented a paper about a tobacco mosaic
virus - He showed that extracts from diseased
tobacco plants could transmit disease to
other plants after passage through ceramic
filters fine enough to retain the smallest
known bacteria
5
Q
____________ ______________
- confirmed the work of Iwanowski
- coined “_________________________” (soluble
living germ) - used the word _____ (poison)
A
Martinus Beijerinck
- confirmed the work of Iwanowski
- coined “contagium vivum fluidum” (soluble
living germ) - used the word virus (poison)
6
Q
_____________________ and _______________
- observed the causative agent of foot-and mouth-disease to be similar with the observations of Iwanowski and Beijernick
A
Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch
- observed the causative agent of foot-andmouth-disease to be similar with the observations of Iwanowski and Beijernick
7
Q
_____________________
- polio virus
A
Karl Landsteiner
- polio virus
8
Q
_____________________
- polio virus
A
Karl Landsteiner
- polio virus
9
Q
___________________ and _________________
- described the bacterial viruses
- __________ named it ____________________
A
Frederick Twort and Felix d’Herelle
- described the bacterial viruses
- d’Herelle named it bacteriophage