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Micro Lecture 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Uses of Bacteria | -degradation of toxic waste -Probiotics -Agriculture -Antibiotics -rDNA -Chemical industry |
| Janssen | Early Lenses |
| Hooke | Early Microscope |
| Leeuweenhoek | -Early microscope, fuzzy view 1674-1723 -Father of microbiology |
| Spontaneous Generation | Disproved Redi-flies did not arise from rotting meat Spallanzani-Boiled flasks after sealing |
| Pasteur | -brought end to spontaneous generation -Swan necked flask experiment, boiled liquids could remain sterile, even when exposed to air -Pasteurization -Discovered that fermentation of grapes to produce alcohol was due to a single living yeast |
| Tyndall | -reconfirmed Pasteur's work -developed tyndallization, intermittent heating to kill all life forms |
| Koch's Postulates | 1.) Bacterium present in diseased host, not in healthy 2.) Grow bacterium in pure culture outside host 3.) inoculate healthy host w/bacterium, it must develop disease 4.) re-isolate the bacterium from the host, it must be identical to the original str |
| Lister | developed "antispetic principles", developed phenol which is used in surgical bandages |
| Paul Ehrlich | established chemotherapy; demonstrated that antibodies develop as a result of prior interaction with a pathogen |
| Jenner | early vaccination studies |
| Metchnikoff | developed the theory that whit blood cells, phagocytes, engulfed foreign particles and destroyed them |
| Berg | spliced bacterial phage DNA into the bacterial chromosome |
| Boyer & Cohen | inserted foreign DNA into a plasmid/vector |
| Mullis | developed PCR technique |