Microbial cellsanswerCan exist as single cells.
MicroorganismsanswerSignificant contributors to the total biomass on Earth.
Differential selection and descent with modificationanswerOccurs during a process called evolution.
Biological catalystsanswerInvolved in the acceleration of the rate of chemical reactions are called
enzymes.
Early life on EarthanswerMicrobial life existed for billions of years before plant and animal life.
Wee animalculesanswerDescribed by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.
AgaranswerPioneered as a solidifying agent by Walther Hesse and Robert Koch.
Characteristic of all cellular organismsanswerIncludes communication, evolution, and motility.
VirusesanswerExcluded from the ribosomal RNA-based tree of life because they lack ribosomal RNA
(rRNA).
Louis PasteuranswerDeveloped the vaccines for anthrax, fowl cholera, and rabies.
Discovery of antibioticsanswerLed to the field of industrial microbiology.
Microbial sterilizationanswerUsed to kill all microbes in or on objects.
, Petri dishesanswerTransparent double-sided dishes used for growing microbes.
Microbes in nitrogen fixationanswerThose that live in nodules, while those in the digestive tract of
herbivores live in rumens.
Accomplishment of Louis PasteuranswerDetermined that the alcohol-making process was mediated by
microbial fermentation.
Theory of spontaneous generationanswerRefuted by the work of Louis Pasteur.
Pasteur flaskanswerHas a swan neck to prevent particulate matter from getting into the main body of
the flask.
Pasteur's conclusions on spontaneous generationanswerIf he did sterilize the flasks, the spontaneous
generation hypothesis would have been supported.
Pure cultureansweris a population of identical cells.
Martinus Beijerinckanswerwas the first to isolate green algae, certain nitrogen-fixing root nodule
bacteria, and certain sulfate-reducing bacteria.
Chemolithotrophyanswerinvolves oxidation of inorganic compounds.
Developments in immunology and medical microbiologyanswerwere practical extensions of the work of
Robert Koch.
Microbial control in wastewatersanswerwould most logically be a part of aquatic microbiology.
Robert Koch's contributions to microbiologyanswerinclude developing the tuberculin test, formulating
four postulates for definitively linking a specific microorganism to a specific disease, and using agar as a
solidifying agent in growth media.