Microbiologists
History
Microbial World
Microscopy & Methods
Miscellaneous
100
This scientist created the first compound microscope and used it to view cells for the first time
Who is Robert Hooke?
100
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek, upon seeing microbes for the first time, gave them this name
What is "animacules"?
100
Name two unique characteristics of prokaryotes.
What is no nucleus, no complex organelles, general small size, unicellularity, circular & singular chromosome?
100
This type of microscope is the most common and can magnify up to 1000X
What is a light microscope?
100
These are the reasons that we see a lot of emerging and re-emerging diseases in modern times (name 3)
What is antibiotic resistance, lack of vaccinations, increased international travel, increased life span, increased contact with animals, encroachment into new habitats, and increased lifespan?
200
This scientist definitively refuted spontaneous generation with his swan-necked flask experiment
Who is Louis Pasteur?
200
This theory posited that life originates from the nonliving
What is spontaneous generation?
200
Name two unique characteristics of eukaryotes.
What is a nucleus, larger size, ability to be multicellular, complex organelles, linear & multiple chromosomes?
200
This type of microscope can magnify up to 100,000X and is divided into scanning and transmission
What is an electron microscope?
200
These biological entities cause diseases like Kuru and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
What are prions?
300
This scientist worked on the germ theory of disease and developed a set of postulates to prove it
Who is Robert Koch?
300
Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1798 for this disease
What is smallpox?
300
Name two characteristics of viruses
What is not made of cells, contains protein & DNA & maybe envelope, infect every species, etc.?
300
Name the three properties of microscopy
What is magnification, resolution, and contrast?
300
This is the process that uses the information of DNA to produce RNA
What is transcription?
400
This scientist discovered penicillin, the first known antibiotic
Who is Alexander Flemming?
400
This theory states that one particular disease is caused by one particular pathogen
What is germ theory?
400
Name two diseases caused by protists
What is amebic dysentery, malaria, trypanosomiasis, cryptosporidium, or giardia?
400
This method allows you to get distinct colonies within pure cultures, enabling the detailed study of a particular microbe
What is the streak plate method?
400
Louis Pasteur was the first to discover that the formation of bread, wine, beer, etc. was the result of this microbial process
What is fermentation?
500
This scientist is known as the father of chemotherapy and developed a drug known as salvarsan to treat syphilis
Who is Paul Erlich?
500
This substance was first used by Robert Koch as a way to create cultures that wouldn't melt at warmer temperatures
What is agar?
500
Other than being types of cells with DNA and protein, this is something all prokaryotes and eukaryotes have in common (Hint: it's something they all contain)
What are ribosomes?
500
This series of steps allows you to determine the causative agent of a disease
What are Koch's postulates?
500
Since celled fungi are referred to as this
What is yeast?
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