People
Discovered Penicillin
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Heating to kill bacteria that causes spoilage; used a S bent beaker
What is pausterization?
Life comes from non-living matter
What is spontaneous generation?
Eukaryotic Microorganisms
What is Fungi, Protozoa, Helminths, Viruses?
Described live microbes.
Who is Leuwenhoek?
Invention of the modern microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
State that to prove a microorganism causes a disease, it must be found in all cases of the disease, isolated and grown in pure culture, cause the disease when introduced into a healthy host, and be re-isolated from the newly diseased host.
What is Koch's postulates?
Living cells come from living cells.
What is biogenesis?
Prokaryotic Microogranisms
What is Bacteria and Archaea?
Classified streptococci by cell wall stereotypes.
Who is Rebecca Lancefield?
Devised the system for naming organisms.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
Tested two jars with raw meat, one with a gauze for air and the other without a lid or gauze, the jar without the lid or gauze developed maggots.
Genus and species epithet.
What is nomenclature?
Prokaryotes, live in extreme environments, cell walls lack peptidoglycan, unicellular, binary fission
What is archae?
Came up with the concept of biogenesis?
Proved that bacteria cause disease, came up with the "Germ Theory".
Who is Robert Koch?
First to apply aseptic techniques and apply the "Germ Theory" to surgery.
Who is Joseph Lister?
One cell divides into two
Parasitic worms, Flat worms and Round worms
What are Helminths?
Zika, H1N1, SARS, Covid19
What is emerging infectious disease?
Developed the first vaccine, vaccinated children from small pox
Who is Edward Jenner?
Who is Paul Ehrlich?
Use of microbes to clean up pollutants and toxic waste.
What is bioremediation?
Three shapes of bacteria.
What is bacilli, cocci, and spiral?
Name 4 good things that microorganisms can do?
What are:
1- Bioremediation
2- Fermentation/Food spoilage
3- Vaccines
4- Decomposers