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Introduction to Microbiology

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Microbiology   the biology of organisms that cannot bee seen with the "naked" eye  
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Microorganisms/microbes   "germs" or "bugs"  
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Microbiology includes...   viruses, bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, protozoa, helminths  
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Antonio van Leeuwenhoek   "Father of Microscope" began making and using simple microscopes examined water and visualized tiny creatures ANIMALCULES  
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By the end of what century they were called microbes/microorganisms   19th  
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What Leeuwenhoek could have seen:   fungi, protozoa, algae, bacteria, archaea, small animals  
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people from the past thought living things arose from 3 processes:   asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, or from nonliving matter  
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Who proposed spontaneous generation?   Aristotle  
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Spontaneous generation   living things can arise from nonliving matter (abiogenesis)  
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Redi's experiments   -when decaying meat was kept isolated from files, maggots never developed -meat exposed to files was soon infested -as a result, scientists began to doubt Aristotle's theory  
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Pasteur's expeiments   -when the "swan-necked" flasks remained upright, no microbial growth appeared -when the flask was tilted, dust from the bend in the neck sweeped back into the flask and made the infusion cloudy with microbes within a day  
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Koch's Postulates   -suspected causative agent must be found in every case of the disease and be absent from healthy hosts -agent must be isolated and grown outside of host -when the agent is introduced into a healthy, susceptible host, the host must get the disease -same  
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Semmelweis   handwashing  
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Lister   antiseptic technique  
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Snow   infection control and epidemiology  
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epidemiology   study of spread of disease  
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Jenner   vaccine; field of immuniology  
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Ehrileh   "magic bullets" field of chemotherapy  
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immunology   study of fighting diseases  
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biotechnology   biological systems for our purpose  
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astrobiology   study of microbes in space  
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Recombinant DNA technology   genes in microbes, plants, and animals manipulated for practical applications  
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Gene therapy   inserting a missing gene or repairing a defective one in humans by inserting desired gene into host cells  
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Bioremediation   uses living bacteria, fungi, and algae to detoxify polluted environments  
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Roles of microorganisms in the environment   recycling of chemicals such as carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur  
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Roles of microbes as energy source   biofuels  
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Taxonomy   system for organizing, classifying, and naming living things  
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Naming microorganisms   -Binomial (scientific) nomenclature -gives each microbe 2 names - genus=always capitalize -species=lowercase -both italicized or underlined  
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3 domain   Bacteria Archara Eukarya  
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Bacteria   prokaryotic cell structure extreme environments simple cells  
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Archaea   prokaryotic cell structure extreme environments simple cells  
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Eukarya   eukaryotic cell structure complex 60 C  
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Evolution   living things change gradually over millions of years more in notes  
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Phylogeny   natural relatedness between groups of organisms (example between coli and salmonella)  
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