Microbes in History and Life
Famously known as the black death, this bacteria was the cause of one of the most fatal pandemics in history.
Yersnia Pestis, Bubonic Plague
Consumed in bubble tea and halo-halo, this substance made from algae forms the base of plates used to grow microbes.
Agar
Out of the four major macromolecules of life, what makes the majority of the cell membrane?
Lipids
This French chemist famously created the process of heating liquids to kill bacteria and was credited with creating an anthrax vaccine.
Louis Pasteur
In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine for smallpox by using ___ material (a milder infection).
Cowpox
This is a microbiological technique used to isolate pure strains of microorganisms on plates.
Streaking
In what is known as the Central Dogma, what is the process of mRNA becoming protein through ribosomes?
Translation
Father of microbiology, _____ was the first to discover bacteria through the use of a microscope.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Produces botulinum toxin, one of the deadliest neurotoxins. It is used in Botox treatments and grows in low-oxygen conditions like canned foods.
Clostridium Botulinum
This dye is used in gram stains to see the gram positive bacteria.
Crystal Violet
What are the three main bacterial shapes?
Cocci, spirochetes, and bacili
"One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did."
Alexander Fleming
Dysentery, Shigella
A technique in the laboratory that ensures sterility in handling microorganisms.
Aseptic technique
Water rushes into a bacterial cell if it is in this type of environment.
Hypotonic
This man formed four "Postulates" used to determine whether or not a certain microbe causes a disease.
Robert Koch
This disease was once romanticized, shaping modern beauty standards due to its association with major artistic figures such as Edgar Allen Poe, Frederic Chopin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and George Orwell. It typically infects the lungs and is still the top leading contagious disease killer of the modern day.
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
A type of light microscope that uses only the light scattered by the specimen, producing a contrast-enhanced image by indirect illumination.
Darkfield Microscopy
Ether-linked membrane lipids are present in this type of cell.
Archaea
Listerine was initially advertised and used as a general antiseptic, and is named after this British surgeon who pioneered antiseptic surgery.
Joseph Lister