Topic 2

Question 1

How did Robert Hooke Contribute to microbiology?

Answer 1

He built the first compound lense microscope and was the first to see and record eukaryotic microbes

Question 2

How did Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek contribute to microbiology?

Answer 2

created stronger magnifying lenses and was the first to observe single-celled organisms

Question 3

How did lady mary montagu contribute to microbiology?

Answer 3

She introduced the practice of variolation to europe

Question 4

How did edward jenner contribute to microbiology?

Answer 4

he introduced vaccination through cowpox injection

Question 5

How did Francesco Redi contribute to microbiology?

Answer 5

He showed that maggots in decaying meat were the offsprings of flies

Question 6

How did Lazzaro Spallanzani contribute to microbiology?

Answer 6

He tried to disprove spontaneous generation by showing that meat broth sterilized and not exposed to air failed to grow microbes

Question 7

How did Louis Pasteur contribute to microbiology?

Answer 7

Discovered fermentative metabolism and used swan-necked flasks to disprove spontaneous generation

Question 8

How did Louis Pasteur use swan-necked flasks to disprove spontaneous generation?

Answer 8

He put broth in swan-necked flasks and only once he contaminated the flasks did microbes grow

Question 9

How did Florence Nightingale contribute to the field of microbiology?

Answer 9

she showed that infections cause more war deaths than anything else

Question 10

How did Robert Koch contribute to microbiology?

Answer 10

reveals the chain of infection, developed the pure culture technique, and developed Koch’s postulates

Question 11

What are Koch’s postulates?

Answer 11

• the microbe will be found in all cases of disease but not in healthy individuals
• the microbe is isolated from the diseased host and grown in pure culture
• when the microbe is introduced into a healthy host the same disease occurs
• the same strain of microbe is obtained from the newly diseased host