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USF Microbiology Ch. 1
Exam 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
09/26/2007

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Anthrax
Definition
Bacillus anthracis
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Gonorrhea
Definition
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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Malaria
Definition
Plasmodium malariae

***This is the ONLY protozoan from list!!***

Term
Tuberculosis
Definition
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Diptheria
Definition
Corynebacterium diptheriae
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Cholera
Definition
Vibrio cholerae
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Tetanus
Definition
Clostridium tetani
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Gas Gangrene
Definition
Clostridium perfringens
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Plague
Definition
Yersina pestis
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Botulism
Definition
Shigella dysenteriae
Term
Syphilis
Definition
Treponema pallidium
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Whooping Cough
Definition
Bordetella pertussis
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Hans and Zaccharias Jansen
Definition
Invented the compound microscope
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Giovanni Faber
Definition
Coined the term "microscope"
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Robert Hooke
Definition
-Improved compound microscope quality

-First to observe the cell

-First to observe microscopic fungi

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Leeuwenhoek
Definition
-Formed hundreds of single-lens microscopes

-Observed unicellular organisms, which he named "animalcules"

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Schleiden and Schwann
Definition
Stated the first two tenents of the Cell Theory
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Virchow
Definition
Added the third tenent to the Cell Theory
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Cell Theory
Definition
1. All living things are made of cells

2. Cell is the basic smallest functional unit

3. All cells come from pre-existing cells

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Ehrlich
Definition
Developed simple staining
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Gram
Definition
Developed Gram staining
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Ruska
Definition
Designed first electron microscope
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Zernike
Definition
Invented the phase-contrast microscope
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Aristotle
Definition
Proposed the theory of Spontaneous Generation
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Redi
Definition
Challenged spontaneous generation with experiment involving meat in gauze-covered jars, and the appearance (or lack of) maggots
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Needham
Definition
Showed that microbial growth occured in heated, stoppered flasks of broth
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Spallanzani
Definition
Showed that microbial growth is prevented with sufficient heating and stoppering
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Lavoisier
Definition
Proved that oxygen is essential for animals
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Schulze
Definition
Passed air through sulfuric acid
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Schwann
Definition
Passed air through red-hot tubes
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Schroeder and von Dusch
Definition
Passed air through cotton plugs
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Pouchet
Definition
Supported a mysterious "force plastique"
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Louis Pasteur
Definition
Demonstrated that broth boiled in swan necked flasks remained sterile.

This was the end of the Spontaneous Generation theory.

Term
Demonic Theory of disease
Definition
Disease comes from malign influence of supernatural powers.

Alleviated by "trepidation"

Term
Humoral Theory of disease
Definition
Disease is caused by an imbalance of the four humors.

Alleviated by "bloodletting"

Term
Miasmatic Theory of disease
Definition
Disease is caused by noxious gases, or miasmata, arising from the ground, swamps, decaying animals, etc.
Term
Germ Theory of disease
Definition
Refers to the contagious nature of disease
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Varro
Definition
Proposed the existence of invisible "animalia minuta" which enter the body and cause disease
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Fracastoro
Definition
Proposed that diseases are caused by "seminaria contagionum," transmitted by:

Direct contact
Inanimate objects
Air

Proposed relationship between disease and decay

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Bassi
Definition
First to associate a microorganism with a specific disease (a silkworm disease caused by a fungus).
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Koch
Definition
Developed pure culture techniques using agar and petri plates.

Demonstrated etiology of anthrax

Discovered the tubercule bacillus

Developed Four Postulates of microbes and disease

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Koch's Four Postulates
Definition
1. Disease-causing organism must be present in every case of the disease, but absent from healthy organisms.

2. Organism must be isolated and grown in pure culture.

3. Same disease must result when a sample of the culture is inoculated into a helathy, susceptible host.

4. The same organism must eb recovered from the diseased host.

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