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BIO 2200 Ch. 1
Wayne State's Microbiology Final Exam Prep
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
04/28/2009

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Term
Microbiology
Definition

Study of microorgaisms-

organisms you need a microscope to see.

Term
Robert Hooke
Definition
used the first microscope to observe the fruiting
bodies (reproductive structures) of the common blue mold,
Penicillium in 1664
Term
Why study microbiology?
Definition
Basic
Many of the basic processes in life are the same in all living things.
Easier to study organisms that divide every 20 minutes than slower
growing organisms (humans)
Most of the living things on the earth are microbes
Term
Antoni van
Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Definition
real master of the
microscope, in
1684 began making
microscopes (hard to focus) that were
so good that they
could see bacteria!
Coined the term: “wee animalcules”
discovered
bacteria, free-living
and parasitic
microscopic protists,
sperm cells, blood
cells, microscopic
nematodes and
rotifers,
Term
Ferdinand J. Cohn
Definition
botanist
who was instrumental in founding
the science of Bacteriology.
Classified bacteria using the genus bacillus for the first time.
Found endospore forming bacillus.
Term
Bacteriology
Definition
the
study of Bacteria
Term
Louis Pasteur: 1822-1895
Definition
French chemist.
Showed that microbes were everywhere
Showed that they did not develop from
nothing (spontaneous generation) (using the swan-necked flask experiment)
Sterilization
Vaccines-anthrax, cholera, rabies.
He mostly worked with animals and with
wine (pasteurization). Swan neck flask experiment.
Term
First to notice that some compounds
come in two racemic forms-chirality.
He separated enantiomerically pure
crystals from wine and showed that
they have different optical properties.
Definition
Lois Pasteur
Term
What "infectious disease" caused an increase in the death rate in 1980?
Definition
AIDS
Term
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-65)
Definition
In 1847 he started having doctors wash
their hands in a chlorine solution when they left the cadavers (to deliver babies)
Term
Joseph Lister
Definition
started cleaning operating tools and
theaters (operating rooms) with carbolic acid (phenol). Carbolic
acid was also used to treat wounds which allowed them to heal
without becoming infected.
Term
Who invented the Carbolic Acid Atomizer
Definition
J. Lister
Term
Robert Koch (1843-1910)
Definition
First to see Bacillus Anthracis and M. tuberculosis.
Invented Acid Fast Staining.
Won Nobel prize for his work on TB.
Term
first to prove that
microbes cause disease and to develop a medium for isolating pure cultures.
Definition
R. Koch.
Term
a series of tests to determine if a given microbe was the
cause of the disease
Definition
Koch’s Postulates.
Term
Describe Koch's Postulates
Definition
1. suspected pathogenic org. should be present in all cases of the disease and absent from healthy animals.
2. suspected org. should be grown in pure culture.
3. Cells from a pure culture should cause disease in a healthy animal.
4. The organism should be re-isolated and shown to be the same as the original.
Term
founded the science of
Environmental Microbiology
Definition
Martinus Beijerinck and Sergei Winogradsky
Term
Environmental Microbiology
Definition
how microbes interact
metabolically with their environments.
Term
Father of Virology;
developed the
enrichment culture techinique.
Definition
Martinus Beijernick
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