Pathogens
This famous disease is the cause of the most recent pandemic.
What is COVID-19?
This domain of prokaryotes are often heat-resistant and can handle extreme environments
What is archaea?
You have to get a vaccine for this every year!
What is the flu
This structure is the powerhouse of the cell
What is a mitochondria?
This French chemist is well known for his research on anthrax and rabies, as well as research completed on microbial interactions with food. He has a food preservation process named after him!
Who is Louis Pasteur?
An opportunistic gut bacterium that is often used in the labs
What is E. coli?
This is stained purple during Gram stains
What is the peptidoglycan layer?
Causes extreme hydrophobia and tremors in infected patients
What is rabies?
This fungi is found in baked goods and in your kitchen
What is yeast?
Disproved miasma theory and prevented further spread of a cholera outbreak in London
Who is John Snow?
This foodborne pathogen is responsible for Typhoid Fever and is spread through the fecal-oral route.
What is salmonella typhi?
The method used in labs to isolate individual bacterial colonies on a plate with an inoculating loop
What is plate streaking?
The type of virus that infects bacteria
What is a bacteriophage?
A type of fungus that lives in symbiosis with algae (and sometimes cyanobacteria)
What is lichen?
This researcher is known as the founder of microbiology
Who is Robert Koch?
This European disease outbreak is where the origin of the word "quarantine" comes from and is the cause of millions of deaths
What is Yersinia pestis?
A thin, slimy film of bacteria that adheres to a surface is called...
What is a biofilm?
The target of the first vaccine, which was obtained from the sores of a milkmaid and injected into a young boy
What is smallpox/Variola major?
This phyla is also known as "roundworms"
What is nematoda?
The inventor of penicillin
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This soilborne pathogen has three forms: Cutaneous, inhalation, and gastrointestinal. It is famously associated with biological warfare/terrorism.
What is Bacillus anthracis?
The replication process where the DNA is duplicated, the cell membrane elongates and splits, and two identical daughter cells are formed is called...
What is binary fission?
This painful viral infection causes "islands of white in a sea of red" and is spread by mosquitoes. This virus is common in tropical areas and can cause a high fever, severe muscle and joint pain, rash, bleeding from nose and mouth, fluid accumulation in chest and abdominal cavities, shock, and hemorrhages.
What is dengue fever?
These irregular shaped eukaryotes are unicellular and use pseudopods to move and eat food.
What are amoeba?
This British polymath created the name "cells" to represent microscopic structures in cork and has a physics law named after him!
Who is Robert Hooke?