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A bacterium that causes pneumonia in humans
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| A type of green algae that lives in fresh water |
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| A fungus that with black spore pockets on top that will be shot into the air to colonize |
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| A virus that infects bacteria |
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| Acanthrocirrus retrirostris |
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| Nucleic acid without a protein coating |
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| An infectious agent composed of protein in a misfolded form |
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- 1664
- First person to use microscope
- Saw slices of cork at about 300x magnification
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| First person to observe (cell) living organisms under microscope (1684) |
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- Disproved spontaneous generation (the theory that living organisms can arise from nonliving things)
- Created vaccination
- Created pasteruization
- Created rabies vaccine from rabbits
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- Tested the germ theory: Demonstrates that specific microorganism cause specific diseases
- Koch's Postulates: 4 rules that all bacteria relationship between a causative microbe and a disease
- Isolation of harmful pathogens
- First person to develop techniques that furthered advancement of Microbiology
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| Suggested that agar could be used as a solidifying agent |
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| Developed the Petri dish which was used to contain the solid culture media (agar and nutrients) |
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- All cells are the fundamental units of life and carry out all basic functions of living things
- Created by Theodor Schwann
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| The Germ Theory of Disease |
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- Microorganisms can invade other organisms and cause disease
- Created by Robert Koch
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- The microbe must be present in every case of the disease but absent from healthy organisms
- The suspected microbe must be isolated and grown in pure culture
- Same disease must result when the isolacted microbe is inoculated into a healthy host
- Same microbe must be isolated again from the diseased host
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