Name That Morphology
What morphology is this: a rod-shaped bacterium.
Bacillus!
If we did not have microbes what would happen
Life could not exist
What do we think is the precursor to DNA
RNA
Easy: What process do cells use to reproduce
Cell Division
In 1803 orphaned boys were given smallpox and put on a ship to the Americas so they could spread the vaccine. how many survived the trip?
1 single orphan made it.
a bacterium that occurs as pairs of cocci
Diplococci
True or false: in 1918 Influenza killed more people than people who died in World War 1
True!
What are the 3 branches of life
Eukaryote, Prokaryote, Archaea
What is Crispr
Playing God (Gene Editing)
Several monkeys were given drugs. Then taught the monkeys how to inject them into themselves. They then left the monkeys with copious amounts of these drugs. What happened?
clusters of four cocci arranged within the same plane
Tetrad
True or false: Beef tapeworms are the smallest tapeworms and can only be a few feet
False: The beef tapeworm can be up to 25 feet in your gut. Isn't that cool!
When is life theorized to have started
around 3.7 billion years ago
What type of pathogen attacks people that are immunodepressed
Opportunistic pathogen
What did Edward Jenner do to prove that his smallpox vaccine worked and to test it
He would infect young boys with smallpox
comma-shaped bacteria in the family Vibrionaceae
Vibrio
True or false: The human body has more microbes than cells
True: The human body has ten times more microbes than cells.
What were the first of the three life forms Prokaryotes Eukarya or Archaea
Prokaryotes
What researcher swallowed a bacteria to proved it cause stomach ulcers.
Dr Barry Marshall
Why did the Nazis torture, infect with diseases, amputate limbs and more to twins in Auschwitz
To try to prove that other races were not desirable and to justify their discrimination.
spherical Gram-positive bacteria, which are immobile and form grape-like clusters
Staphylococci
What bacteria was found on Georges forehead and was responsible for killing big mikes bananas
Fusarium oxysporum
What is the theory about mitochondria and Eukaryotes called
endosymbiotic hypothesis
What Dutch Scientist is know as the father of Microbiology
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
What word was meant to support Racist and Classist Beliefs and talks down about ones intelligence.
Moron