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Microbio MiniQuiz 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| microbiology | study of microorganisms/microbes |
| microbes | very small organisms usually seen with a microscope |
| hippocrates | father of western medicine believed diseases had natural causes from within or outside patients |
| varrone | predicted microscopic creatures in the air enter the body and cause disease |
| Aristotle | 1st to theorize spontaneous generation |
| spontaneous generation | Hypothesis stating that life could arise from nonliving matter if it had pneuma |
| Galileo | scientific method |
| Redi | disproved spontaneous generation |
| Hooke | first description of microbes discovered cells |
| Leeuwenhoek | father of modern microbiology first to observe single-celled microbes |
| Needham v Spallanzani | boiled broth experiments argued spontaneous generation |
| Pasteur | disproved spontaneous generation |
| Semmelweis | handwashing |
| miasma theory | disease comes from particles in sewage/cesspits that infected humans in close proximity |
| Snow | first epidemiological study cholera |
| Nightingale | Founder of modern nursing hand hygiene |
| Lister | First to use disinfectants in surgical procedures first application of germ theory |
| Koch | Proved that microorganisms can cause disease |
| cell theory | idea that all living things are composed of cells, cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things, and new cells are produced from existing cells |
| endosymbiotic theory | theory that eukaryotic cells formed from a symbiosis among several different prokaryotic organisms |
| Schleiden | observed plant cells |
| Schwann | all plants and animals are made of cells |
| Remak | showed cell division in a publication |
| Virchow | all cells arise from cells |
| Brown | observed nuclei plant cells |
| Schimper | chroloplast, photosynthesis and division |
| Mereschkowski | chloroplasts may have originated from ancestral photosynthetic bacteria |
| Wallin | tried to culture mitochondria |
| Marguilis | published ideas on endosymbiotic theory of the origin of mitochondria and chloroplast |
| microscopy advancements | differentiate eukaryotes and prokaryotes |
| genetic advancements | mitochondria and chloroplast DNA related to bacteria |
| positive control | experimental control that gives a positive result |
| negative control | experimental control that does not give a response to the test |
| prokaryote | A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus and membrane bound organelles circular DNA |
| eukaryote | A cell that contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles linear DNA |
| virus | A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell. acellular |
| simple microscope | a microscope that contains only one lens |
| compound microscope | A light microscope that has more than one lens |
| magnification | objective x ocular |
| typical ocular lens | 10x |
| resolution | ability to tell that two separate points/objects are separate |
| numerical aperture | the ability of a lens to gather light |
| immersion oil | oil placed on a slide to minimize refraction of the light entering the lens 100x |
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