Section 1: History Flashcards
1
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Fracastoro
A
transferable spore like particles (“seeds”) to transmit infection
*note: once thought germ theory but NOT because his reference to seeds is as chemicals
2
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van Leeuwenhoek
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- father of microbiology
- invented microscope
3
Q
Hooke
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coined term “cell”
4
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Semmelweis
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handwashing!
cadaver -> patient
5
Q
Lister
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Antiseptic in surgery
*continuation of semmelweis work
6
Q
Pasteur
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- disproved spontaneous generation
- Germ Theory
- Pasteurization
7
Q
Koch
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- TB vaccine (won nobel prize)
- Koch’s postulates of what constitutes a disease: all cases; isolated and maintained in a pure culture; able to reproduce; retrieved and cultured again from inoculate animal
8
Q
Griffith
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bacteria can transfer genetic information
9
Q
Avery, McCarty and MacLeod
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transforming substance is DNA
10
Q
Watson and Crick
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Structure of DNA
11
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John Cairns
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bacterial chromosome is circular
