Microbial Diversity
This family of cells use spores as part of their reproduction cycle
What are fungi ?
This organelle is responsible for creating a physical barrier between the cell and its environment.
What is the plasma membrane or cell wall ?
This public health strategy was used with little success to prevent a leprosy outbreak in biblical times.
What is quarantine ?
________ the Iceman, a 5300-year-old mummy found frozen in the ice of the Ötzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991.
Who is Otzi ?
This is the proper term for harmful, disease causing microbes.
What are pathogens ?
These types of microorganisms are considered acellular.
What are viruses ?
These tiny hair like "feet" help to move microbes.
What are cilia ?
The ancient Greeks attributed disease to this.
What is bad air or mal’aria, which they called “miasmatic odors”?
He was the first to develop a lens powerful enough to view microbes.
Who was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ?
This can result from the misuse of antimicrobials and creates a need for new, stronger compounds.
What is antimicrobial resistance ?
This type of microbe can be gram stained to help identify the itself.
What are bacteria ?
Longer, tail like organelles that enable cellular movement are called this.
What are flagella ?
The romans created these to bring fresh water into the cities and towns, and a sewer to take away the foul water.
What are aqueducts ?
This person showed that individual microbial strains had unique properties and demonstrated that fermentation is caused by microorganisms.
Who is Louise Pasteur ?
This branch of the phylogenetic tree studied in microbiology includes algae, protozoa, fungi, and helminths.
What are eukaryotes ?
This is the name of the first modern antibotic based of a fungus.
What is penicillin or penicillium ?
This section of the cell is where genetic information is stored.
What is the nucleus ?
He is is considered the “father of Western medicine”
Who is hippocrates ?
a German physician, was the first to demonstrate the connection between a single, isolated microbe and a known human disease.
Who was Robert Koch ?
The first phylogenetic tree included animals and plants, then this third branch was added.
What is the protist branch?
These microbes can have DNA or RNA but never both.
What are viruses ?
This organelle produces proteins for the cell to use.
This person was a prolific Roman writer who was one of the first people to propose the concept that things we cannot see can cause disease.
Who was Marcus Terentius Varro?
This is the most famous early taxonomist who was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
This is the name of the red dyed surgical scrub soap we used in our hand washing lab; it was in a cyan colored bottle dispensed from a syringe.
What is Hibiclens or Chlorhexidine ?