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Micro ch 1 vocabular
Microbiology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agar | Gelatin-like solidifying agent used in laboratory culture medians |
| Animalcules | Tiny animals seen under the microscope |
| 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) |
| Gene Therapy | The replacement of a defective gene with a normal one in pts suffering a wide variety of genetic diseases |
| 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 |
| Hypothesis | Describes how a logical process could explain the observations in the scientific method |
| 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 |
| Lysosyme | Degrades bacterial cell walls |
| Microbes | Medically relevant organisms include prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites(smallest to largest) |
| Microbiology | studies a variety of organisms that usually require a microscope to be seen |
| Penicillin | the first true antibiotic used to kill bacteria |
| 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 |
| Scientific method | Helps scientists to make observations about a specific phenomenon |
| Spontaneous generation | The idea that microbes develop without any cellular parentage. That contamination comes from the air. |
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