Scientists and Their Discoveries
The person who discovered microorganisms ("animalcules")?
Who is Antony van Leeuwenhoek?
The only consistent characteristic that differentiates between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes
What is Eukaryotes have a membrane-bound nucleus and Prokaryotes do not?
The false theory that microorganisms arise from non-living or decaying matter?
What is abiogenesis (spontaneous generation)?
The concept that many different kinds of organisms can be found in most given environments
What is diversity?
The classification system that relates microorganisms solely based on their genetic material
What is Phylogeny
The scientist that coined the term "cell" from observing a sample of cork
Who is Robert Hooke?
The three domains
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya?
The theory that all cells (including microorganisms) are derived from other living cells
What is Cell Theory?
The absence of all living cells including bacterial endospores
What is sterility?
How Joseph Lister's contribution to the field of asepsis
What is autoclaving and sterilization of instruments?
The scientists who were involved in the field of asepsis
Who are Sammelweiss and Lister?
The Four Kingdoms of Eukarya
What are Plants, Animals, Fungi, and Protista?
Germ Theory
What is the concept that specific microorganisms can cause their own specific diseases.
Taxonomy
What is the method of organizing, classifying, and naming living things?
The classification system that Carl Woese discovered
What is molecular Taxonomy?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
1. The theory Louis Pasteur disproved
2. Explanation of the experiment that Pasteur used to do this
1. What is Abiogenesis (spontaneous generation)
2. What is the instrument that Pasteur used swan-necked flasks and cotton plugs to show that microorganisms have to present in order for another organism to grow.
What are Algae and Protozoa
The theory that Koch's postulates support and how the postulates support that theory
What is Germ Theory and isolating different microorganisms in order to prove that the same microorganism caused several cases of the same disease/illness?
The concept that microorganisms can be found virtually anywhere
What is Ubiquity?
The scientist who discovered the first vaccine and the vaccine that he discovered
Who is Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine?
The scientist who discovered endospores
Who is Ferdinand Cohn?
The characteristics that all microorganisms have in Kingdom Protista
What is being a single-celled organism?
The three scientists involved in disproving spontaneous generation (proving cell theory)
Who are Pasteur, Tyndall, and Cohn?
The practice of preventing the transmission of microorganisms from one location to another
What is Asepsis?
The first truly selectively-toxic agent and the person who discovered it
What is Salvarsan and Ehrlich