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Big names in microbiology
Types of microbes
Classifying microbes
Prokaryotic cellular structures
Viewing and growing microbes
100
Used one of the first microscopes to view cork; coined the term "cell"
Who is Robert Hooke?
100
This microbe is not considered to be alive, as it is acellular
What is a virus?
100
The three domains
What are bacteria, archaea, eukarya?
100
This cell structure maintains cell shape and protect the cell from lysis
What is the cell wall?
100
This type of microscopy is the most widely used
What is bright-field (light microscopy)?
200
Performed one of the first epidemiological studies in London mapping cases of cholera
Who is John Snow?
200
This type of microbial cell has no nucleus
What is prokaryotic?
200
The 6 kingdoms
What are bacteria, archaea, protista, plantae, fungi, animalia?
200
A long cellular extension that propels the organism through its environment
What is a flagellum?
200
At the conclusion of this stain, some cells appear purple, and others appear red, depending on cell wall structure
What is the gram stain?
300
Developed methods (postulates) for linking specific microbes to specific diseases
Who is Robert Koch?
300
Which type of microbe is the smallest?
What are viruses?
300
The two parts of an organism's scientific name
What is genus, species?
300
These structures are short and hair-like, giving a cell the ability to adhere to surfaces
What are pili?
300
A growth of microbes that contains only one type of microbe
What is a pure culture?
400
One of the first to put forward the idea of biogenesis
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
400
These microbes are the primary decomposers
What are fungi and bacteria?
400
Most archaea live in harsh conditions and are referred to as this
What are extremophiles?
400
The unique component of bacterial cell walls
What is peptidoglycan?
400
Growing an acidophile would require this pH
What is acid (pH 0-6.9)?
500
Developer of vaccination; showed that exposure to a weak strain of a virus could confer immunity to the more severe strain
Who is Edward Jenner?
500
Microbes that live in close association with other organisms live in this type of relationship
What is symbiotic?
500
This bacterial phylum contains photosynthetic bacteria
What is Cyanobacteria?
500
If flagella are present all over the cell, they are described as this
What is peritrichous?
500
A dye that can be used as a positive stain
What is crystal violet, safranin, methylene blue, malachite green?