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5 Classes of Microbes
Who Dat?
What is..
Bacteria
Randomness
100
Largest of all the microbes
Algae
100
He was the first person to see the "microbial world" and invented a new method to grind lenses
Leeuwenhoek
100
microbiology
Study of small, living organisms too small to see with the naked eye
100
Name one food product that bacteria make
Answers may vary
100
The number of macromolecules
4
200
These microbes are used to produce food
Bacteria
200
Robert Koch worked with this bacteria
Anthrax
200
spontaneous generation
living things come from non-living matter
200
This type of bacteria loves living in hot springs/geysers
Thermophile
200
Absence of all living organisms
Sterile
300
Name a disease caused by a virus
Chickenpox, flu, HIV/AIDS, MMR
300
First person to show bacteria causes disease
Robert Koch
300
the only way a virus can replicate
inside a host
300
Name the bacterial shape that looks like a "comma"
Vibrio
300
Ability of a disease to pass from one person to another
Contagion
400
Give an example of a fungi
Molds/yeast/mushrooms
400
Louis Pasteur is famous for this experiment
Swan-necked flasks
400
a condenser on a microscope
provides light for when looking at a specimen
400
What is difference between bacteria and archaea
Peptidoglycan
400
State one function of microbes
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500
"Microbial Animals"
Protozoa
500
First person to question spontaneous generation
Louis Joblot
500
the settings for an autoclave
15 lbs/in2 at 121 degrees C
500
What color is Gram positive (G+) bacteria
Purple
500
How long ago did Earth form?
4.5 bya