Microbes in our lives
The study of microscopic organisms
Includes, gloves, gowns, masks and booties.
What is personal protective equipment?
This scientist used the corkscrew concept and began modern day cell theory.
This prokaryote is unicellular and has cell walls of peptidoglycan. It is reproduced by binary fission.
What is bacteria?
This term derives from "to live together"
What is symbiosis?
These characteristics include; maintaining balance of life, converts nitrogen gas into organic compounds and produces methane and ethanol.
What are environmental impacts of microbes?
Infection prevention and control, specific things used to decrease the spread of infection. Things done all the time.
What is routine practice?
This scientist discovered animalcules
who is Anton van leeuwenhoek?
This eukaryote has a nucleus. An example is mushroom.
What are fungi?
An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally.
What is a disease?
Vitamin K is for blood clotting.
B vitamins are for metabolism.
What are human impacts of microbes?
The process of heating a substance to kill any spoiling microbes.
What is pasteurization?
This scientist developed the taxonomic system.
Who is Carol's Linnaeus?
This is an amebia, a unicellular eukaryote that is locomotive.
What is protozoa?
This remains hours/days/months, competition prevents persistence. This is a body's defense.
What are transient microbiota?
Synthesizes chemical products and food industry uses microbes.
What are commercial impacts of microbes?
A disease that infected the mother of newly born babies and the baby. This was occurring in one of two divisions in the hospital.
What is childbed fever?
It is 2 words. The first capitalized and the second is lowercased. Always italicized.
What is nomenclature?
Some of these are actually not bad for you. They are uni or multicellular. An example is seaweed?
What is algae?
These remain throughout life, include bacteria, fungi and protozoa. These are commensal.
What is resident microbiota?
These are very small, and they are acellular. They are surrounded by a protein coat and contain DNA and RNA.
What are viruses?
This scientist realized that milkmaids were not getting sick due to a variant of small pox they picked up from cows, he used this material to discover vaccination.
Who was Edward Jenner?
This was a hypothesis that living organisms arise from non-living matter.
What is spontaneous generation?
This is a eukaryote, live inside humans for most of their lives. An example is helminths.
What is a multicellular animal parasite?
Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism.
What are the three types of symbiosis?