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Final comprehensive exam
comprehensive final for microbiology 211
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
05/03/2011

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Term
spontaneous generation
Definition
belief that living things can come from nonliving things
Term
biogenesis
Definition
living comes from living
Term
Who came up biogenesis? How?
Definition
Louis Pasteur-while playing with wine he discovered forms of life could exist in absense of oxygen. Then discovered, specific microbes cause certain diseases. He boiled meat broth in s shaped bottle. Particles got stuck in neck. So particles from air make you sick. Wine will spoil by pasturize. Blood will spoil by pathogens.
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Who invented aseptic technique?
Definition
Lister-sterilize instruments and dipped dressing in phenol and wrapped wound during war time (1865-1877). Healed slow b/c of acid but higher chance of living.
Term
Who made protocol for washing hands and changing clothes in hospitals?
Definition
Ignas Semmelweis-1847 Tried proving aceptic technique but later died of his own theory.
Term
What are Koch's postulates?
Definition

1. Bacteria present in every case. (same sign/symptom)

2.Isloted to grow in pure culture

3.specific disease produced from same s/s.

4. Bacteria recovered from infected host.

Term
Who invented first compound microsope?
Definition
Hans & Jansen
Term
Who invented first  single bi-convex lens microscope?
Definition
Leeuwenhoek
Term
English father of microscopy
Definition
Hooke
Term
Biogenesis experiment with meat/flies
Definition
Redi
Term
Ignaz Semmelweis
Definition
Aseptic technique but couldn't prove it
Term
Aseptic technique and it worked by boiling meat broth
Definition
Pasteur
Term
4 steps to scientific method
Definition

1. observe

2. ask questions

3. hypothesis (if...then...)

4. controlled experiment

Term
Cell theory
Definition

1.living things made up of cells

 

2. cell is structural and functional unit of all living things

3. all cells come from pre-existing cells by division

 

4. cell contains heriditary info passed during cell division

5.cells have basically same chemical compound

 

6.cells make ATP

Term
antiseptic- wrapped wound
Definition
Lister
Term
Robert Koch
Definition
prove certain bacteria causes certain diseases
Term
Phycology
Definition
study of algae
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Mycology
Definition
study of fungi
Term
What microscope do we use to look at virus?
Definition

Transmission electron-internal view

 

Scanning electron-surface view

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