Terminology
Organisms that are too small to be seen with the human eye
What are microbes or microorganisms?
This scientist developed the gram stain used to identify and classify bacteria
Who is Hans Christian Gram?
This word describes organisms that can survive in high/low temperatures, pH, and extreme conditions.
What is extremophile?
The genetic material of bacteria
What is double stranded DNA?
The spread of this disease during 1918-1920 occured shortly after WWI and is the first pandemic caused by H1N1 virus.
What is influenza/Spanish flu?
What is the naming format for scientific names?
What is Genus Species?
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?
What type of chromosome do archaea have?
What is circular?
Name at least three types of bacterial cellular morphology.
What are coccus, bacillus, spirilla, vibrio?
This woman is the first known case of an asymptomatic carrier of disease in the United States.
Who is Typhoid Mary/Mary Mallon?
An outbreak of disease that attacks many people at about the same time
What is an epidemic?
Considered to be the first acknowledged microscopist.
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
This new superphylum of sulfur-transforming archaea takes inspiration from mythology.
What is Asgard?
MRSA is caused by this bacteria...
What is S. aureus
This scientific theory states that diseases are caused by microorganisms.
What is Germ Theory?
Incorrectly folded, infectious proteins and the cause of Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
What are prions?
This researcher is known as the founder of microbiology
Who is Robert Koch?
Define halophile.
An organism that grow in or tolerate high salt conditions.
The transfer of genetic material from one bacterium to another by a bacteriophage.
What is transduction?
An outbreak of this disease in 1916 caused thousands of deaths and left those alive with paralysis.
What is Polio?
A substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen
What is a vaccine?
The inventor of penicillin
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This term is a filler word that describes organisms that cannot grow in labs or culture, and are found in the wild.
What is Candidatus?
cell division in prokaryotes is called...
What is binary fission?
This historical epidemic affected the Byzantine empire and the Mediterranian and is caused by the same bacterium responsible for the Black Death.
What is the Plague of Justinian?