Tools of the Trade
The use of lenses to reveal details of an object that are not visible to the unaided eye.
What is microscopy?
Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that handwashing could prevent disease in this century.
What is the 1800s? (1840s)
The term that describes a distance approximately equal to the thickness of a finger nail.
What is a millimeter?
These organisms have no nucleus or membrane-bound organelles.
What are prokaryotes?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is a mitochondrion?
The bending of light through a substance.
What is refraction?
In the 1600s, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observed the first living microbes, which he described as this.
What are animalcules?
This long, whip-like projection is used for locomotion.
What are flagella?
These flat worms can regenerate any part of their body.
The study of viruses.
What is virology?
This type of microscope usually has several different objective lenses as well as at least one ocular lens.
What is a compound light microscope?
In the mid-1800s, Florence Nightingale established this type of school.
What is a nursing school?
Enzymes produced by microbes are used to digest fats and oils in drainage systems and sewers to prevent the formation of one of these, whose size rivaled that of a double-decker bus in London.
What is a fatberg?
These triangle-shaped features are responsible for sensing the environment surrounding planarians.
What are auricles?
A group of microbes that live in and on the human body.
What is the microbiome?
A type of magnet in which the magnetic properties depend on an electrical current.
What is an electromagnet?
This person reported that living things are composed of little boxes or "cells" in the 1600s.
Who is Robert Hooke?
This term describes the beneficial bacteria found in yogurt and sauerkraut.
What is probiotic?
This cnidarian uses nematocysts to paralyze its prey before ripping itself open to consume it.
What is a hydra?
This domain or group of organisms contains extremophiles.
What is Archaea?
This type of microscope can be used for viewing the inside of a cell - perhaps the Golgi apparatus.
What is a transmission electron microscope (TEM)?
This scientist developed 4 rules or postulates that are still followed today to identify the cause of a disease or illness.
Who is Koch (Robert Koch)?
Bacillus thuringiensis does what for gardeners?
What is produces protein crystals that are toxic to insect pests?
This eight-legged micro-animal can be found in almost every place on earth, from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
What are water bears? (aka tardigrades, moss piglets)
The term for a rod-shaped bacterium.
What is bacillus?