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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
09/10/2014

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Term
Robert Hooke
Definition
  • Reported that all living things are composed of 'little boxes' or cells
  • laid the foundation for the development of the Cell theory
  • all living things are composed of cells and come from preexisting cells
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Definition
  • first observed microorganisms using magnifying lenses (First microscope)
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Louis Pasteur
Definition
  • disproved spontaneous generation (showed that microorganisms are present in the air)
  • discovered Fermentation (microbes can conbert sugars to alcohol to make beer and wine)
  • Pasteurization (use heat to prevent food spoilage)
  • aseptic techniques
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Joseph Lister
Definition
  • used a chemical disinfectant to prevent surgical wound infections (aseptic principles of surgery)
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Robert Koch

 

Definition
  • proved that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps (koch's postulates) to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease (Germ theory of disease)
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Edward Jenner
Definition
  • Inoculated a person with cowpox virus who was then protected from small pox
  • First vaccine
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Christian Gram
Definition
Gram-staining procedure
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Paul Ehrlich
Definition
  • developed the Theory of Immunity
  • used a synthetic arsenic drug to treat Syphilis
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Dmitri Iwanowski
Definition
Discovered viruses
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Alexander Flemming
Definition
Discovered the first antibiotic (Penicillin) made by the mold (fungus) Penicillium
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James Watson

Francis Crick

Definition
Structure of DNA
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Carl Woese
Definition
Discovered Archaea using ribosomal RNA sequencing
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