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Exam 1

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In 1668 who demonstrated that maggots appeared only in decaying meat that had been exposed to flies?   Francesco Redi  
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Who introduced the concept that living cells arise from other living cells?   Rudolph Virchow  
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Who introduced the technique of vaccination for smallpox?   Edward Jenner  
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Who first used the microscope and observed "cells"   Robert Hooke  
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Who made an association between slikworm disease and fungus?   Agostino Bassi  
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Who was the surgeon who used carbolic acid to control wound infections?   Joseph Lister  
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Who first speculated about the possibility of a "magic bullet" that would destroy a pathogen without harming the host   Paul Ehrlich  
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Who discovered Penicillin?   Alexander Fleming  
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Who used anthrax as a model, demonstrating that a specific microorganism is the cause of a specific disease?   Robert Koch  
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Who originated our system of scientific nomenclature?   Carolus Linnaeus  
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Who assigned a microbial cause to fermentation   Louis Pasteur  
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Who was the first to crystalize a virus   Wendell Stanley  
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Who showed that mild heating of spirits kills spoilage bacteria without damage to the beverage   Louis Pasteur  
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Who devised a classification system for the streprococci based on an immunological system of serotypes.   Rebecca Lancefield  
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Who demostrated that infections in obstetrical wards could be minimized by disinfecting the hands of doctors   Ignaz Semmelweis  
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Who first demonstrated that genetic information could be exchanged between bacteria by conjugation   Joshua Lederberg  
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Prokaryotes   Bacteria  
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Noncellular, reproduce only inside cells of host organism   viruses  
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Helminths   Multicellular animal parasites  
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Yeasts   Fungi  
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An infectious protein   Prion  
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Unicellular eukaryote microorganisms, members of Kingdom Protista   Protozoa  
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Protection from a disease that is provided by vaccination.   Immunity  
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The use of chemical substances to treat disease   Chemotherapy  
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The use of microbes to clean up, for example oil spills   Bioremediation  
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The process which yeast changes sugars into alcohol   Fermentation  
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Techniques that keep areas free of unwanted microorganisms   Aseptic  
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Photosynthetic bacteria; may fix nitrogen from air   Cyanobacteria  
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Photosynthetic eukaryotes   Algae  
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Eukaryotes classified primarily by their means of locomotion   Protozoa  
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General name for a rod-shaped bacterium   Bacillus  
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General name fora spherical bacterium   Coccus  
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Prokaryotes whose cell walls lack peptidoglycan and are often found in extreme environments   Archaea  
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Bacteria generally reproduce by a process called ___ into two equal daughter cells.   binary fission  
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The set of criteria that prove that a specific microorganism is the cause of a specific disease is known today as ___ ___.   Koch Postulates  
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The concept that living cells can arise only from other living cells is called ___.   biogenesis  
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Responding to experiments in which nutrient fluids were heated in sealed containers, proponents of spontaneous generation objected that heating destroyed some ___ ___ in the air.   Vital Force  
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According to the rules applied to the scientific naming of a biological organism, the ___ name is always capitalized.   genus  
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Paul Ehrlich discovered an arsenic derivative, ___, that was effective against syphilis.   salvarsan  
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Antimicrobial chemicals produced naturally by bacteria and fungi are called ___.   antibiotics  
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Bacteria usually exist in nature not as single cells but as aggregations of cells called a/n ___.   biofilm  
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What are three characteristics unique to prokaryotes   -Single, circular chromosome that is not enclosed by a nuclear envelope -Lack true organelles -have peptidoglycan in their cell walls -Binary fission is a common form of reproduction  
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The ___ which is the first name in a nomenclature is always capitalized, and the ___ ___, which follows and is not capitalized.   -genus -specific epithet (species)  
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___ and ___ are simple, one-celled organisms whose genetic material is not enclosed in a special nuclear membrane. For this reason these are called prokaryotes.   Bacteria and archaea  
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Protozoa are classified by what?   locomotion  
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