Spontaneous Generation &Stuff Flashcards
3 Domains:
bacteria, eukaryota, and archaea
bacteria is made up of:
cyanobacteria & heterotrophic bacteria
eukaryota made up of:
plants, animals, fungi, chromists, rhodophytes, flagellates, alveolates, basal protists
archaea presumed to be
ancient!!
archaea consist of:
halophiles & thermophiles
what is spontaneous generation?
back in the 1500s people believed life just randomly appeared
What did Francesco Redi do?
he did an experiment with meat in flasks, the meat in the sealed flask had no maggots and the meat that was exposed to air had maggots.
What did Louis Pasteur do?
He put nutrient broth in a flask and bent the flasks neck to form an S. Airborne microorganisms couldn’t reach the broth but air could, which disproved the idea of spontaneous generation. Once he tilted the flask so the microorganisms could reach the broth, it became clouded with life.
CELL THEORY PART 1
all life comes from life (cells come from other cells)
CELL THEORY PART 2
all life is made up of cells (cells are the basic unit of life)