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Micro Chapter 1 KT

Micro Chapter 1

TermDefinition
Microorganism Types bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and viruses
Microorganisms produce... vitamins we need (vitamin k example)
microbe living organism too small to be seen by the naked eye
cell smallest functional unit of life
10^-6 m microbial cells
10^-9 m viruses
Are viruses cells? NO, 10 times smaller than a cell
Scientific names genus + species
How are scientific names written capital genus, lowercase species, all italics
Can be RNA or DNA viral genomes
Cells with no true nucleus or membrane bound organelles Prokaryote (pro means no)
Cells with true nucleus and membrane bound organelles Eukaryote (eu means true)
Prokaryote are seen as bacteria
Eukaryotes are seen as fungi, protazoa, and helminths (all multicellular except protazoa)
non cellular, nonmetabolic, unable to reproduce independently viruses
are viruses alive NO
first person to use the term cell observe microorganisms under microscope Robert Hooke
father or microbiology first to observe bacteria with single lens microscope Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
developed pasteurization technique germ theory develop rabies and anthrax disease Louis Pasteur
Significance of mortality due to infectious disease Florence Nightengale
Promoted handwashing Ignaz Semmelweis
Began use of chemical diinfectants during surgery Joseph Lister (listerene)
discovered cholera was spread via water John Snow
isolation of pure cultures on agar robert koch
kochs principle of epidemiology chain of infection
kochs postulate link a pathogen to a disease
how does kochs postulate work culture a dead animal --> find bactetria cause --> put it in a healthy animal --> culture and cross reference their deaths
father of immunology innoculated the 8 y/o son of his gardener with pus of cowpox blisters he got from a milkmaid with cowbox edward jenner
inventor of penicillin and father of pharmecudical industry ****** alexander fleming
first to use term virus beijerinck
Polymerase chain reaction take DNA and multiply it, copies DNA from a small sample
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