Food Preservation
Parasites
Pandemic Illnesses & Disease
Bacteria
Famous Scientists in Microbiology
100
Things people added to rotting meat to cover up the taste and odor.
What are spices?
100
The symbiotic relationship in which one organism derives benefit while harming/killing its host.
What is parasitism?
100
Disease that causes paralysis and death and enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine.
What is Polio?
100
Products of a pathogen that destroy/damage/inactivate one or more vital components of the host, thus allowing the pathogen to survive and flourish.
What are toxins?
100
First person to see and draw bacteria and a whole host of other microbes.
Who is van Leeuwenhoek?
200
Live on the skin or attach to hair follicles
What is an ectoparasite?
200
Disease that can be contracted by mosquitoes and can be spread from person to person.
What is Malaria?
200
The pathogen establishes itself in the host and overcomes/avoids the nonspecific defenses and gains a "foothold" which allows it to grow and reproduce.
What is infection?
200
Person who was responsible for developing most of the basic microbiology laboratory techniques used today to study microbes.
Who is Hooke?
300
Live within the body of a host.
What is an endoparasite?
300
The period of time it takes for the pathogen to establish itself to the point where the first disease symptoms appear.
What is incubation?
300
Recognized the relationship between cowpox and immunity to smallpox.
Who is Koch?
400
Feeds on another parasite.
What is an epiparasite?
400
Disease caused by a streptococcus bacteria that infects people when they come in contact with airborne droplets and causes damage to tissues, kidneys, bones, heart, and immune system.
What is Scarlet Fever?
400
The first symptoms that clearly demonstrate and illness.
What are initial symptoms?
400
Person who is considered responsible for initiating modern immunology.
Who is Pasteur?
500
This man put food in a bottle, jammed a cork tightly in it, and placed it in boiling water for an hour or so so the contents didn't spoil.
Who is Appert?
500
Disease spread by ingesting contaminated water and food that has been contaminated with human waste containing the bacterium salmonella typhoi.
What is Typhoid?
500
Period during which the symptoms decline and the patient recovers.
What is recovery?
500
Performed a crucial experiment proving that larger life forms did not arise spontaneously.
Who is Redi?