Pioneers in Microbiology
Father of Microbiology
Major Groups of Microorganisms
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100
Believed that living things arose from muck, decaying food, warm rain, or even dirty shirts
Who is Aristotle?
100
Known as the "father of microbiology"
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
These make up a large group of one-celled microorganisms; they can be good and bad.
What is bacteria?
100
Spherical, rod, and spiral are all shapes of this.
What is bacteria?
100
____ B, C, and D are spread by exposure to blood.
What is Hepatitis?
200
Used a primitive microscope to observe stagnant water and scrapings from the teeth
Who is Antony van Leeuwenhoek?
200
The Father of Microbiology prepared the first vaccine for this fatal animal disease.
What is rabies?
200
This contains chlorophyll, as well as pigments that cause them to appear yellow-green, brown, or red.
What is algae?
200
This bacteria requires oxygen to grow.
What is aerobes?
200
This is the most resistant form of bacterial life.
What is spores?
300
Discovered that bacteria existed in heat-sensitive and heat-stable forms
Who is John Tyndall?
300
The Father of Microbiology disproved the theory of spontaneous generation of life and associated living ______ with disease.
What is microorganisms?
300
Single-celled microscopic animals without a rigid cell wall.
What is protozoa?
300
The brain, spinal cord and nervous system are affected by what virus?
What is West Nile?
300
This microorganism is used as a benchmark for the effectiveness of a surface disinfectant.
What is Tuberculosis?
400
Recognized the role of airborne microorganisms in postsurgical infection
Who is Joseph Lister?
400
The Father of Microbiology used this animal in addition to a dog, to experiment with the vaccine used to prevent rabies.
What is a rabbit?
400
Plants, such as mushrooms, yeasts, and molds, that lack chlorophyll.
What is fungi?
400
The is the staining process for separating bacteria using crystal violet dye, iodine solution, alcohol solution, and safranin dye.
What is Gram's Stain?
400
This disease is also known as lockjaw.
What is Tetanus?
500
Developed a two-part dish, petri plates (still used in microbiology laboratories today), used for growing bacteria and a technique used for isolating pure colonies of bacteria
Who is Robert Koch?
500
Pathogens in milk are destroyed through this, named after the Father of Microbiology.
What is pasteurization?
500
Ultramicroscopic infectious agents that contain DNA or RNA.
What is viruses?
500
These convert normal protein molecules into dangerous ones simply by causing the normal ones to change shape; they are a new and separate class from other microorganisms.
What is prions?
500
This is a global disease outbreak when a new virus emerges in which people have no/low immunity and no vaccine.
What is pandemic?