Microbe Names
Name three groups of microbes (there are 5)
Fungi, algae, bacteria, viruses, protozoa
He is considered the Father of Microbiology.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
APC stands for this.
Aerobic Plate Count
The state of Washington recently declared a state of emergency due to an outbreak of this virus.
Measles
Russell and E.G. Hastings demonstrated at industrial scale that lower temperature pasteurization kills tuberculosis bacilli without damaging the appearance of this beverage that is widely produced in Wisconsin.
milk
The S stand in S. cerevisiae stands for
Saccharomyces
He is credited with discovering the Germ theory of disease.
Louis Pasteur
The Gram Stain is used to classify cells based on differences in this.
Cell Wall
The recent recalls for romaine lettuce was due to contamination by this microorganism.
E. coli
The name of the Microbial Sciences building built in 1955 and torn down in 2004 to be replaced by the current building.
E. B. Fred Hall
The Plasmodium spp. is known for causing this disease.
Malaria
This was the first antibiotic that was discovered.
Penicillin
PCR stands for this
Polymerase Chain Reaction
This genome engineering technology developed in the last 30 years allows scientists to easily and precisely edit the DNA of any genome.
CRISPR-Cas9
The first Bacteriology class taught at UW was in this year.
1881
Borrelia burgdorferi is the bacterium known for causing this disease.
Lyme disease
In 1918, U.S life expectancy dropped 12 years. What caused this?
Influenza (Spanish Flu)
When a substance is added to a solid medium which inhibits the growth of unwanted bacteria but permits the growth of wanted bacteria, it is known as this kind of medium.
Selective Medium
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently dealing with an outbreak of this.
Ebola virus
Biochemistry Professor Harry Steenbock is known for research on this vitamin.
D
This is the scientific name for a “water bear”
Tardigrade
1600s (1674)
In a lab, yellow fever, West Nile virus, and the bacteria that causes tuberculosis are categorized as this biosafety level.
BSL 3
The human microbiota is a major area of research and has many links to human health. These two phyla of bacteria dominate the microbiome.
Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes
This UW Professor Emeritus discovered the archaea, Thermus aquaticus.
Thomas Brock