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Microbiology Final Exam: Important People
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
12/11/2012

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Robert Hooke (3 things)
Definition
described fruiting structures of molds in 1665
First person to describe microorganisms (fungus)
Coined the term cell
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van Leeuwenhoek (4 things)
Definition
First to describe bacteria in 1676
Single lens microscopes
Called them “animalcules”
Father of microbiology
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Louis Pasteur (6 things)
Definition
-Swan neck experiment
-Disproved theory of spontaneous generation
Developed vaccines for anthrax, fowl cholera, and rabies. Anthrax and fowl cholera are produced by bacteria while rabies is produced by a virus
Wine industry-> yeast cells. In bad wines bacterial cells were present.
Pasteurization->process of heating. Foods are beverages are heated enough to get rid of the “bad” mircoorganisms
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Robert Koch
Definition
Pure culture techniques
postulates
Germ Theory of Disease - link between disease and microorganism
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Sanger
Definition
Sequencing genomes of organisms
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Mullis
Definition
PCR
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