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Unit 1

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Koch's Postulates   Prove that a specific microbe is the cause of a specific infectious disease.  
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Zooplankton   Microscopic marine animals; components ok planlton  
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Pathogens   Cause all infectious disease  
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Bioremediation   using microorganisms to clean up the enviroment  
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Zoonoses   infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans  
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opportunistic pathogens   do not usually cause infectious disease but can under cirtain circumstances  
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indigenous microflora   microorganisms that live in and on us  
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saphrophytes   organisms that live on dead or decaying organic matter  
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Robert Koch   Developed an experimental procedure that could be used to prove that a specific organism is the cause of a specific infectious disease  
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Proposed the theory of biogenesis   Rudolf Virchow  
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Discovered the causitive agent of the plague   Alexandre Emil Jean Yersin  
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The first person to observe live bacteria and protozoa   Anton van Leeuwenhoek (he also invented the simple microscope which magnifyed up to 300x)  
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Resolving power of the unaided eye   0.2mm  
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Total magnification achieve when oil immerson lens is used   X1000  
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Resolving power of the compound microscope compared to the unaided eye   1000x  
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Compound light microscope   Wavelength of visible light limits the size of objects that can be seen  
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fluorescence microscopy   used in immunology labs  
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# of micrometers in a milimeter   1000  
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resolving power of the transmission electron micrscope   0.2nm nanometers  
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# of nanometers (nm) in a micrometer   1000  
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Germ theory of disease   Pastuer proposed it Koch developed it.Germs are the major cause of many diseases to the development of antibodies  
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Process of pasteurization   steam, pressure, or chemicals are used to REDUCE the # of pathogens  
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Genetic engineering   insertion of foreign genes into microorganisms to produce specific gene products or to enable them to be used for other purposes  
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