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| the study of entities too small to be seen with the human eye |
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| Bacteria and archaea are classified as... |
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| what's included in the eukaryotic group (4)? |
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| fungi, algae, protozoa, and helminths |
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| Prokaryotes and eukaryotes are acellular? T or F? |
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| false, they're cellular- Only viruses are acellular |
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| Decomposition, cycling of elements, and photosynthesis are included in what type of microbiology? |
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| environmental microbiology |
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| Microbes can be altered to produce useful products or modify other organism (ex. insulin) through... |
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| What two "top 10 causes of death in the US" are caused by microbes? |
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| influenza/pneumonia and septicemia |
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| HIV/AIDS is one of the microbes in the "top 5 causes of death WORLDWIDE"? T or F? |
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| False- it's respiratory infections (#4). HIV/AIDS is #7 |
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| Who coined the word "cell"? |
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| Who was the first person to accurately describe living microbes? |
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
(the father of microbiology) |
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| Who used dishes of meat and maggots to disprove spontaneous generation? |
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| Louis Joblot argued that contamination came from outside the container (dust)- t or f? |
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| Which two men discovered sterilization of gases through heat? |
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| Which man used swan-necked flasks in his sterilization experiment? |
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| Which two men discovered endospores? |
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| John Tyndall and Ferdinand Cohn |
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| Which physician observed the spread of puerperal fever and published guidelines to reduce transmission (before the discovery of the germ theory)? |
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| Who forced handwashing with the puerperal fever outbreak in his hospital? |
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| Who invented pasteurization and began the germ theory of disease? |
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| Who initiated aseptic technique with the use of carbolic acid? |
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| What are Koch's postulates? |
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- A series of proofs that verified the germ theory
- Established whether an organism was pathogenic (a etiological/causitive agent) and which disease it caused
- Still used today to identify pathogens
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| What is the order of taxonomy? |
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- Domain (labeled incorrectly in powerpoint)
- Kingdom
- Phylum (if bacteria, protozoa, animals) or division (if algae, plants, fungi)
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species
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| What is the correct way to write out binomial nomenclature? |
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| Who created the Five Kingdom Model and what are its components? |
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Robert Whittaker
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Monera
#1-4= eukaryotes
#5= prokayotes |
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| Who created the Three Domains model, what was it based on, and what were its components? |
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Carl Woese
-based on 16s rRNA
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Archaea
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Bacteria
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Eukarya
#1 & 2 are prokaryotic cell types while #3 are all eukaryotes |
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