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BIOL201
Microbiology: Chapters 1-7
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
10/04/2012

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Van Leeuwenhoek
Definition
Credited with viewbacterie for the first time; "animalcules"
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Linnaeus
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Introduced the binomial nomenclature system
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Hooke
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Viewed multiple small things under a microscope to study
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FLeming
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Discovered use for Penicillin
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Koch
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Developed principles & techniques of stdying bacteria; Koch's postulates
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Pasteur
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"Father" of modern microbiology; famous for swan-necked flask experiment
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Biogenesis
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Hypothesis that living matter only arises from other living matter
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Theory of spontaneous generation
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Belief that other forms of life arise from non-living material; disproved by Pasteur with Swan-necked flask experiment
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Germ theory
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Theory that germ cause disease
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Koch's Postulates
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1) Microorganism/pathogen must be presen tin all cases of disease
2)Pathogen can be isolated from diseased host & grown in pure culture
3)Pathogen from pure culture must cause disease when inoculated in healthy, living laboratory animal
4) Pathogen reisolated from new host & show same as originally inoculated pathogen
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Microorganism benefit (Humans)
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Food production
Biotechnology
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Microorganism benefit (Environment)
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Biodegradation (bioremediation)
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Three domains of cellular life
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Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria
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Domains with prokaryotic forms
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Archaea, Bacteria
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Domains with eukaryotic forms
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Eukarya
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Endosymbiont (Endosymbiotic) theory
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1)Prokaryote engulfed another prokaryote, 2) engulfed prokaryote becomes organelle
Ex: mitochondrion
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Central Dogma of Biology
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DNA source of all life is unique to every organism
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Cellular organisms
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Arcahea, Bacteria, fungi algae, protozoa, helminthes
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Acellular organisms
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Viruses, virusoids, viroids, prions
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Pathogenic organisms to humans
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fungi, algae, protozoa, helminthes
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Cell wall: peptidoglycan
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archaea, protozoa
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Cell wall: chitin
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Fungi/yeasts
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Cell wall: cellulose
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algae
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No cell wall
Definition
Protozoa, helminthes
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Binomial nomenclature
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(1)Genus(2)Species
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Prions
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Comprised solely of amino acids
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Viruses
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Comprised of both amino acids and nucleic acids; DNA/RNA surrounded by protein coat
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Viroids
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Consist of only nucleic acids
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