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Microbiology
Undergraduate 1
06/26/2012

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Ferdinand Cohn
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discovered heat resistant bacterial spores
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Joseph Lister
Definition
surgeon advocated using disinfectants
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
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Dutch merchant made and used quality magnifying lenses & "father"
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Tyndall
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heat-stabile and heat labile organism; discovered endospores
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Ignaz Semmelweis 
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Developed handwashing technique
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Frederick Griffith
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Recombinant techniques and modern molecule genetics
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Robert Hooke
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discovered cells under a microscope
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Carl Woese & George Fox
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Proposed 3 domains
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Albert Sabin
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Developed 1st oral polio vaccine 
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Wendell Stanley
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Tobacco mosaic virus
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Alexander Fleming
Definition
Pennicillin
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Walter Reed
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Linked mosquitoes to yellow fever
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Jonas Salk
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Developed 1st polio vaccine
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Maternity Wards
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Holmes
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Vaccine for small pox
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Edward Jenner
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Cloned 1st DNA using plasmids
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Stanley Cohen
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Francesco Redi
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Meat experiment
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Ribose
Definition
Sugar that composes part of ATP molecule
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Polysaccharide
Definition
Glycogen, a major energy source for animals is a ___.
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Glucose
Definition
Only carb capable of producing energy by cellular respiration
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glucose and fructose
Definition
Sucrose is composed of ___
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Glucose
Definition
Most common and energetically useful hexose
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Lactose
Definition
Combining glucose and galactose
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sucrose
Definition
What is not formed by dehydration of only glucose?
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usually forms 4 covalent bonds
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Carbon 
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rancidty
Definition
cleaving of bonds
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ionic
Definition
type of bond formed by transfer of electron
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hydrogen
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type of bond found between bases in dna 
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single covalent
Definition
pair of shared electrons
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covalent
Definition
bonding characterized by sharing of electrons
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solid medium
Definition
essential for development of discrete, isolated colonies
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SIM
Definition
Media used to determine if bacteria is motile
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Agar
Definition
ideal solidifying agent employed in solid culture media
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pour plate
Definition
method results in colonies developing down throughout the agar and some colonies on the surface
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blood agar
Definition
common colony for growin fastidious bacteria
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infusion media
Definition
contain dissolved or suspended particles that result from a boilin or soaking action (nutrient broth)
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anaerobe
Definition
nutrient medium that contains thyioglycollic acid
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Sabourad's agar
Definition
medium for culturing fungi
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pour
Definition
In a __ plate technique sample is added directly to agar prior to hardening 
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gram positive
Definition
a procaryotic cell that has primarily peptidoglycan with small amts of tetchoic and lipoteichoic acid is__
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gram negative cell walls
Definition
An endotoxin is associated with some ___
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