Scientists Flashcards

1
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“Micrographia”

Compound microscope and its uses

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Robert Hooke

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2
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Thin slice of cork showed “little boxes” or cells; history of cell biology; “all living things are composed of cells.”

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Robert Hooke

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3
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First to observe live microorganisms (“animalcules”)

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Anton van Leeuwenhoke

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4
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Single-lens microscope

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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5
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(Swedish botanist)

Binomial nomenclature (“Systema Naturae”, 1735) : the genus (plural: genera) & specific epithet.

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Carolus Linnaeus

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6
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The first letter of the genus is always capitalized, the specific epithet is not capitalized. Both names are underlined or italicized.

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Binomial nomenclature

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7
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◼ 1st real experiment to dispute abiogenesis

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Francesco Redi (an Italian physician; 1668)

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8
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◼ put boiled nutrient broth into covered flasks.

Pro abiogenesis

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John Needham (1745-1748)

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9
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Evidence:

Lazzaro Spallanzani (1765)

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Pro biogenesis

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10
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Is there a “life force” in air that can cause microbes to develop by spontaneous generation?

Is there a means of allowing air to enter a container but not the bacteria that are present in it?

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Louis Pasteur (1864 )

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11
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Nutrient broth placed in long necked-flasks, then heated

No microbial growth

There is no such life force in air, and organisms do not arise by spontaneous generation

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Pasteur

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12
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Historical Development : THE GOLDEN AGE OF MICROBIOLOGY

(1857-1914)

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Pasteur’s work
The Germ Theory of Disease Vaccination
Antimicrobial drugs

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13
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Microbes are responsible for Fermentation (1857) and spoilage of food.

Vinegar (acetic acid) is produced when bacteria ferments ethanol in wine.

Spoilage bacteria could be killed through pasteurization (1864).

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Pasteur’s Work

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14
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discovered a silkworm disease caused by a fungus.

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Agostino Bassi

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15
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advocated handwashing to prevent spread of puerperal fever (childbirth fever).

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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16
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used phenol (carbolic acid) to prevent surgical wound infections

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Joseph Lister

17
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discovered another silkworm disease caused by a protozoan.

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Pasteur

18
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provided experimental steps used to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease.

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Robert Koch

19
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Microbial Etiology of Important diseases established Koch :

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•Vibrio cholerae = Cholera

•Mycobacterium tuberculosis = TB

•Bacillus anthracis = Anthrax

20
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inoculated a person with cowpox virus resulting to protection from smallpox.

The protection is called immunity.

vaccination from vacca (cow)

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Edward Jenner

21
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: treatment of disease by using chemical substances.

can be synthetic drugs or natural (antibiotics).

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapeutic agents

22
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= for malaria.

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Quinine (tree bark)

23
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developed salvarsan (magic bullet for syphilis).

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Paul Ehrlich

24
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Salvarsan toxic substance..

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Arsenic

25
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discovered penicillin from the mold, Penicillium chrysogenum.

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Alexander Fleming

26
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were synthesized.

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Sulfonamides

27
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: Penicillin was tested clinically & mass produced.

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1940s

28
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT:

Modern Developments in Microbiology

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Bacteriology
Mycology
Parasitology
Phycology
Virology

29
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proposed the use of immunology to ID bacteria according to serotypes (variants within a species).

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Rebecca Lancefield (1933)

30
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introduced Recombinant DNA

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Paul Berg (1960s)

31
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT:

Microbes and Human Welfare

Modern Biotechnology

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Genetic engineering
Gene therapy
GMOs

32
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Degradation of organic matter in sewage & detoxify pollutants.

Nitrosomonas europaea
Nitrobacter hamburgensis

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Bioremediation

33
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Biological Insecticides

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Bacillus thuringiensis

34
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Bioremediation

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Nitrosomonas europaea
Nitrobacter hamburgensis