Microbiology
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| Agar | Gelatin-like solidifying agent used in laboratory culture medians
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| Animalcules | Tiny animals seen under the microscope
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| Biotechnology | Widely employed by various industries and uses microbes to solve biological problems; to produce large quantities of useful items, such as antibiotics, vitamins, food supplements, and to degrade toxic materials (especially raw sewage)
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| Gene Therapy | The replacement of a defective gene with a normal one in pts suffering a wide variety of genetic diseases
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| Germ theory of disease | The belief that microbes will grow in humans and are the cause of diseases that spread from person to person and town to town
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| Hypothesis | Describes how a logical process could explain the observations in the scientific method
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| Koch Postulates | 1)a given organism exists in animals infected with the specific disease, not in animals not infected 2)get a pure culture of the disease 3)same sx seen in inoculated healthy animals 4)isolate the identical microbe from newly infected animal
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| Lysosyme | Degrades bacterial cell walls
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| Microbes | Medically relevant organisms include prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites(smallest to largest)
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| Microbiology | studies a variety of organisms that usually require a microscope to be seen
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| Penicillin | the first true antibiotic used to kill bacteria
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| Pure culture | as each cell divides it forms a visible clump of cells that all grew from one organism and appeared identical in the microscope
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| Scientific method | Helps scientists to make observations about a specific phenomenon
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| Spontaneous generation | The idea that microbes develop without any cellular parentage. That contamination comes from the air.
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