General Microbiology Exam #1 study guide
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1. ______ was the first to recognize disease in warfare
-designed the polar chart to show the death of soldiers due to various dis-
eases.: Florence Nightingale
2. _____ is a living organism that requires a microscope to be seen.: Microbes
3. What are the exceptions to microbes?: - supersize microbial cells
-microbial communities
- what about viruses?
4. ____ built the first compound microscope to observe mold.
-coined the term "cell"
-in 1695, published Micrographia, first manuscript that illustrated objects
under the microscope.: Robert Hooke
5. _____ was the first to observe single-celled microbes
-a cloth draper (called them "small animals")
-built single-lens magnifiers, compete with sample holder and focus adjust-
ment: Antione van Leeuwenhoek
6. _____ is the theory that living creatures could arise without parents
(maggots arise from nothing): Spontaneous generation
7. _____ showed that maggots in decaying meat were offspring of flies (dis-
proved spontaneous generation): Francesco Redi
8. ____ showed that sealed flask of meat broth sterilized by boiling failed to grow
microbes.: Lazzaro Spallanzani
9. ______ believed Spontaneous generation can occur under the right condi-
tions.
(Disproved Redi's experiment): John Needham
10. ____ discovered the microbial basis of fermentation
-devised "swan neck" flasks
-disproved spotaneous generation
-proposed biogensis: Louis Pasteur
11. _____ was the founder of scientific method of microbiology
-german physician
-applied his methods to numerous lethal diseases around the world.: Robert Koch
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12. ____ introduced the smallpox inoculation to the American colonies
-was a West African slave: Mr. Onesimus
13. _____ introduced the smallpox inoculation to Europe to Europe in 1717.: Lady
Montagu
14. _____ deliberately infected his patients with matter from cowpox lesions: Ed-
ward Jenner
15. ____ was called the practice of cowpox inoculation: Vaccination
16. ____ developed the first vaccines based on weakened strains.
-fowl cholera
-rabies: Louis Pasteur
17. ____ ordered doctors to was their hands with chlorine, and antiseptic agent-
: Ignaz Semmelweis
18. _____ developed carbolic acid to treat wounds and clean surgical instru-
ments: Joseph Lister
19. _____ rediscovered that Penicillium mold generated a substance that killed
bacteria.: Alexander Fleming
20. ______ was a russian scientist who was among the first to study microbes in
natural habitats.
-developed enrichment cultures
-discovered lithotrophs feed on inorganic minerals.: Sergi Winogradsky
21. ______ was made by Sergei Winogradsky that is a wetland model ecosystem
containing regions of enrichment in microbes of diverse metabolism.: Winogradsky
column
22. ______ called the microbial world "chaos"
-so little was known about microbial life
- microbes do not fit the classic definition of a species
- group of organisms that interbreed: Carolus Linnaeus
23. What are some of the challenges faced by early taxonomist when they tried
to classify microbes?: 1. Resolution of the light microscope was too low
2. microbial species are hard to define
- >95% similarity in DNA Sequence
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_by9xrl
1. ______ was the first to recognize disease in warfare
-designed the polar chart to show the death of soldiers due to various dis-
eases.: Florence Nightingale
2. _____ is a living organism that requires a microscope to be seen.: Microbes
3. What are the exceptions to microbes?: - supersize microbial cells
-microbial communities
- what about viruses?
4. ____ built the first compound microscope to observe mold.
-coined the term "cell"
-in 1695, published Micrographia, first manuscript that illustrated objects
under the microscope.: Robert Hooke
5. _____ was the first to observe single-celled microbes
-a cloth draper (called them "small animals")
-built single-lens magnifiers, compete with sample holder and focus adjust-
ment: Antione van Leeuwenhoek
6. _____ is the theory that living creatures could arise without parents
(maggots arise from nothing): Spontaneous generation
7. _____ showed that maggots in decaying meat were offspring of flies (dis-
proved spontaneous generation): Francesco Redi
8. ____ showed that sealed flask of meat broth sterilized by boiling failed to grow
microbes.: Lazzaro Spallanzani
9. ______ believed Spontaneous generation can occur under the right condi-
tions.
(Disproved Redi's experiment): John Needham
10. ____ discovered the microbial basis of fermentation
-devised "swan neck" flasks
-disproved spotaneous generation
-proposed biogensis: Louis Pasteur
11. _____ was the founder of scientific method of microbiology
-german physician
-applied his methods to numerous lethal diseases around the world.: Robert Koch
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, General Microbiology Exam #1 study guide
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_by9xrl
12. ____ introduced the smallpox inoculation to the American colonies
-was a West African slave: Mr. Onesimus
13. _____ introduced the smallpox inoculation to Europe to Europe in 1717.: Lady
Montagu
14. _____ deliberately infected his patients with matter from cowpox lesions: Ed-
ward Jenner
15. ____ was called the practice of cowpox inoculation: Vaccination
16. ____ developed the first vaccines based on weakened strains.
-fowl cholera
-rabies: Louis Pasteur
17. ____ ordered doctors to was their hands with chlorine, and antiseptic agent-
: Ignaz Semmelweis
18. _____ developed carbolic acid to treat wounds and clean surgical instru-
ments: Joseph Lister
19. _____ rediscovered that Penicillium mold generated a substance that killed
bacteria.: Alexander Fleming
20. ______ was a russian scientist who was among the first to study microbes in
natural habitats.
-developed enrichment cultures
-discovered lithotrophs feed on inorganic minerals.: Sergi Winogradsky
21. ______ was made by Sergei Winogradsky that is a wetland model ecosystem
containing regions of enrichment in microbes of diverse metabolism.: Winogradsky
column
22. ______ called the microbial world "chaos"
-so little was known about microbial life
- microbes do not fit the classic definition of a species
- group of organisms that interbreed: Carolus Linnaeus
23. What are some of the challenges faced by early taxonomist when they tried
to classify microbes?: 1. Resolution of the light microscope was too low
2. microbial species are hard to define
- >95% similarity in DNA Sequence
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