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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who examined cork under his crude microscope? | Robert Hooke |
| what did Robert Hooke see in his microscope? | Little boxes or cells. |
| Robert Hookes discovery led to what? | The cell theory that all living things are composed of cells. |
| Who saw the first Microbes? | Anton Van Leeuenhoek |
| What was significant about what Anton Van Leeuenhoek did? | He drew pictures and wrote it down |
| What means life arrising from non living matter? | Spontaneous Generation |
| Who put mesh over rotting jars of meat and disproved Spontaneous Generation? | Francesco Redi |
| Who said flys come from flys? | Francesco Redi |
| Who argued that Microbes generated spontaneously from beef broth? | John Needham |
| Who boiled beef broth and then sealed it in the same jar? | Lazzaro Spallanzani |
| What did John Needham say to discredit Lazzaro Spallanzani results? | Microbes lacked oxygen |
| Who came along and said that living cells only come from pre-existing living cells? | Rudolf Virchow |
| Living cells only come from living cells is the deffinition for what? | biogenesis |
| What type of microorgansm only appears alive when inside a host? | virus |
| The first name in nomenclature of a living organism is? | Genus |
| The second name in nomenclature assigned to a living organism is? | Species |
| What is a more exact designation in nomenclature of a living organism? | Species |
| What is typically a large group in the nomenclature given to a living organism? | Genus |
| What is a bacterium commonly found on skin? | staphylococcus aureus |
| What means a cluster of grapes? | staphlo |
| What means round | coccus |
| what means golden? | aureus |
| What is the study of all of an organisms genes? | genomics |
| What does not have a true membrane bound nucleus? | Prokaryote |
| What has a true membrane bound nucleus | Eukaryote |
| What type of prokaryote is only found in extreme environments? | archea |
| Humans, protozoans, mocroscopic parasites (worms), algae, and fungi are all examples of? | eukaryotes |
| What is a safer bleaching agent than chlorine? | perocide |
| peroxide is easily removed from waste water and fabric with the use of? | enzymes |
| what was cloned and grown in yeast and then grew it in the yeast in washing machine conditions? | mushroom |
| Yeast that survived the washing maching conditions was selected as the? | Peroxidase producers |
| Instead of using chemicals to produce indigo scientists are now using? | bacteris |
| Gluconacetobacter xylinus bacteris makes? | cellulose |
| The bacterial by-product indole was converted to indigo from a soil bacterium, pseudomonas putida, into Echerichia coli bacteria, which then turned? | blue |
| over 25 bacteria make? | polyhydroxyalkanoate |
| what is PHS short for? | polyhydroxyalkanoate |
| polyhydroxyalkanoates better for producing? | plastic |
| olyhydroxyalkanoates are better for producing plastics than conventional methods because they are? | biodegradable |
| what biodegrades plastic? | bacteria |
| what is an example of protozoans? | amoeba |
| what does photosynthesis generate? | oxygen |
| what gives geans the stone washed look? | enzymes |
| what is the name of the enzyme that gives jeans the stone washed look? | celulase |
| The trichoderma fungus gives rise to which enzymes? | celulases |
| celulase enzymes soften jeans by digesting some of the what in the cotton? | cellulose |
| what operates at safe temps and ph's and is better than chemicals? | enzymes |
| because it is a protein it is readily degraded which makes them easily removed from waste water. | enzymes |
| what is better for the environment than cotton? | bacteria |
| what depends on large areas of land, fertilizer, pestisides and good weather? | cotton |
| bacteria is an example of a? | microorganism |
| fungi is an example of a? | microorganism |
| a subgroup of fungi is | yeast and mold |
| microscopic algae is an example of a? | microorganism |
| viruses is an example of a | microorganism |