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| decompose organic waste; producers in ecosystem by photosynthesis; produce industrial chemicals such as ethanol and acetone; produce fermented food such as cheese, vinegar, and bread;come about through biogenesis; arise from preexisting cells; shown by Pasteur to NOT be created spontaneously. |
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| Microorganisms allow humans to... |
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| prevent food spoilage; prevent disease occurence; and led to aseptic techniques to prevent contamination in medicine and in microbiology laboratories. |
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| italicized or underlined; genus capitalized and specific epithet is lower case. |
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| Pasteur's S-shaped flask let air in but kept microbes out. |
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proved that a bacterium
causes anthrax and provided the experimental
steps, Koch’s postulates, to prove that a specific
microbe causes a specific disease. |
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