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.
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2
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____ 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
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3
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____ B.C.

  • Ramses V’s mummy showed _______________
    from __________
A

1143 B.C.

  • Ramses V’s mummy showed pockmarks
    from smallpox
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4
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_________ ___________________

  • 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
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5
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____________ ______________

  • 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)
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6
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_____________________ 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
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7
Q

_____________________

  • polio virus
A

Karl Landsteiner

  • polio virus
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8
Q

_____________________

  • polio virus
A

Karl Landsteiner

  • polio virus
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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
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