Microbiologists
Developed the first vaccination to help cure smallpox
Edward Jenner
Curly shaped
Spirilli
Anaerobe
Clostridium
Grow best between 25C and 40C
Mesophiles
Type of bacteria that cause most human infections
Mesophiles
Determined the structure of DNA
Watson and Crick (with the help of Rosalind Franklin)
Curved Rods (comma shaped)
Vibrio
Obligate psychrophile
Bacillus globisporus
Grow best at pH of 0.1 to 5.4
Acidophiles
Cell division in bacteria is called what
Binary fission
First to use the term chemotherapy
Paul Ehrlich
Rod-shaped
Bacillus
Facultative thermophile
Bacillus stearotheromophilus
Grow best in high hydrostatic pressure
Barophiles
How many colonies should be on a plate
30-300 cfu's
Believed in Spontaneous Generation
Aristotle
Round spheres
Coccus
Facultative anaerobe
E.coli
Grow best in the presence of small amounts of free oxygen
Microaerophiles
Microbial growth is measured by what
Increase in total number of cells
First person to characterize viruses
Martinus Beijerinck
Cube of four cells
Tetrad
Obligate psychrophile
Xanthomonas pharmicola
Only grow at temperatures above 37C
Obligate thermophiles
Generation Time is defined as what
Length of time it takes for a population of cells to double