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100

 Use visible light to illuminate and optical lenses to observe enlarged images of specimens. They are classified as either simple or compound.

Light microscope

100

In the sixteenth century a father-and-son team, by the name of __________, produced a compound microscope consisting of a simple tube with lenses at each end.

Zaccharias and Hans Janssen  

100

The atomic number equals the number of

protons

100

The germ theory of disease proposed by Louis Pasteur and

Robert Koch

100

Viruses are noncellular, submicroscopic particles (visible only by electron microscopy) and consist of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.

Virus

200

Microscope that uses three-dimensional images 

Scanning electron Microscope

200

“Animalcules” were first described by

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

200

The atomic weight is equal to the sum of

protons and neutrons

200

studied the observations of Semmelweis and hypothesized that airborne microbes might play a role in postsurgical infections as well.

Joseph Lister


200

(proteinaceous infectious particles) are not cellular organisms, nor are they viruses. They lack nucleic acids; they are normal proteins of animal tissues that can misfold during protein synthesis and become an infectious agent

Prion

300

Microscope that uses cytoplasmic streaming 

Phase-contrast Microscope

300

Micrographia, a publication illustrating insects, sponges, as well as plant cells, was published by

 Robert Hooke

300

the same numbers of protons but a different number of neutrons.

Isotopes

300

Immunology begins with the work of

Edward Jenner

300

These are plant pathogens that can cause serious economic problems. They are much smaller than viruses (15–100 nm) and consist of a small single-stranded, naked RNA circle. These cannot produce proteins and do not have a protein coat

Viroids

400

Microscope that uses a beam to slice through an ultrathin sectioned specimen.

Transmission Electron Microscope

400

Which scientist is most responsible for ending the controversy about spontaneous generation?

 Louis Pasteur

400

The bond of oxygen and hydrogen between water molecules is a(n)

Hydrogen Bond


400

in the United States showed that death after childbirth was often caused by material on the hands of midwives or physicians

Oliver Wendell Holmes

400

represent some of the oldest microbial communities.

Stromatolites

500

Microscope that observes insects 

Stereomicroscope

500

The binomial system of nomenclature was originally developed by:

Linnaeus

500

The unit molecules (monomers) of carbohydrates are:

monosaccharides 

500

in Vienna observed that women in the maternity ward became infected after being examined by physicians or students who came directly from the autopsy room or from examining infected patients.

Ignaz Semmelweis

500

All bacterial cells are __, whereas algae, fungi, and protozoans are __. (eukaryotes/prokaryotes)

prokaryotic

eukaryotes

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