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all microbe contain ____ a genome
Louis Pasteur used a swan-necked dust in the air is a source of living microbes.
flask to show
first person to visualize microbes Antoine van Leeuwenhoek.
Yersinia pestis (plague) passed on by rats
Koch proved that a particular microbe causes a particular disease.
Koch's Postulates - present in every case of the disease.
- isolated from the host with the disease and grown
in pure culture.
-bacteria must be recoverable from the
experimentally infected host.
Fleming discovered penicillin - kills bacteria
Ivanovsky viruses as filterable infective particles
Koch devised techniques of pure culture to study a single
species of microbe in isolation
Jenner established the practice of vaccination (cow pox)
Semmelweis handwashing
, introduced vaccination into Europe Mary Montagu.
was
how much microbial species can be 0.1%
grown in pure culture?
Which of the following inorganic CO2
molecules would these microbes also
need to build macromolecules for
new cell material?
Ruminant microorganisms digestion of cellulose to organic acids
endosymbiont a cell that lives within a host cell
The reduction of N2 gas into ammonia nitrogen fixation
is known as
the three domains of life according to Archaea, bacteria, Eukaryotas
the classification system by Carl
Woese.
Prokaryotes - 2 Prokaryotes: Bacteria and Archae
Eukaryotes - everything else Eukaryotes: Plants Animals Protists Algae Fungi
Antibiotics that weaken the osmotic lysis.
peptidoglycan cell wall make a
bacterium more prone to
osmotic lysis swelling and bursting of a cell in a hypotonic solution
The cell structure immediately cell membrane.
external to the cytoplasm is the
Movement of molecular oxygen (O2) occurs by passive diffusion.
and carbon dioxide (CO2) across the
cell membrane