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56 Cards in this Set
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any living things you cant see with naked eye
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microbe
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prokaryotic cells found in kingdom monera, in domains archea and bacteria
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bacteria
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noncellular entities that are made of dna and protein, must have a host. no metabolism
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viruses
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single celled
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protozoa
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molds and yeast
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fungi
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importance of microbes
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-decomposers
-basis of food chain in aqautic environment -micro biota -food, alcohol production -genetic engineering -bioremmediation -biocontrol |
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the early belief that living organsims spontaneously occured from nonliving matter
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spontaneous generation
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biogenesis
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belief that living things arise from living cells only
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produced by bacillus clostridium and are durable under adverwse conditions
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endospores
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light scientist, "cells"
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robert hooke
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examined seawater, teeth scrapings and saw moving things called them animacules
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Anton van Leewonhoek
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Francisco Redi
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disproved s.g. EXCEPT for microbes
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louis pasteur
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rabies vaccine,disproved s.g
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paul erhlich
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created first slide for mycobacterium called acid fast stain. ALSO found drug salvarson to treat syphillus
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introduced idea of agar plates. first to get a pure culture of microbes. demonstrated connection between disease and microbes
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koch
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hand-washing
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ignaz semmelweiss
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found that mosquitoes carried yellow fever
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reeed
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antibiotics, effects of penicilin
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flemming
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mass produced penicillen
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Florey and Chain
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dmitri iwanowski
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proposed there was a microbe smaller than bacteria, TMV
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micrometers
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bacteria
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nanometers
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virus
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one lens
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simple microscope
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image from the objective lens is magnified again by the ocular lens
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compund microscope
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objective lens X ocular lens
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total magnification
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ability of a lens to distinguish two points
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resolution
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shorter wavelengths provied what?
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greater resolution
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measure of the light bending ability of a medium
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refractive index
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what is used to keep light from bending
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oil immersion lens
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dark objects are seen against a bright background.
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brightfeild illumination
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light onjects are seen against a dark background
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darkfeild illumination
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advantages of darkfeild illumination
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no stain needed
can be living true size and shape of m.o is seen |
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accentuates diffraction of the light that passes through a specimen
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phase contrast microscopy
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-cellsstained with
flourochrome dyes -3d image -research bases |
confocal microscopy
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- cells stained with flourochrome dyes
-2 photons of red light are used -used to study cells that are attached to a surface |
two photon microscopy
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measures sound waves that are reflected back from an object
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scanning acoustic microscope
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uses electrons instead of light
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electron microscopy
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ultrathin sectons of specimens
light passes through specimen, then an electromagentic lens, to a screen or film |
Transmission Electron Microscopy
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disadvantages of TEM
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limited beam, distortion, dehydration
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an electron gun produces a beam of electrons that scans the surfaceof a whole specimen
3D, no distortion |
scanning electron micrscopy
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advantages of a scanned probe microscope
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no high energy beam,
living org from start to finish, detailed |
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observe processes at molecular level, 3D
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atomic force microscopy
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coloring microbe with a dye that emphasizes
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staining
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thin film of a solution of microbes on a slide
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smear
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in a basic dye, the chromophore is a what?
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cation
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in an acidic dye, the chromphore is a whaT?
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anion
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tend to be killed by penicillen and detergents
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gram positive
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are more resistant to antibiotics
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gram negative
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gram positive color
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purple
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gram negative color
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red
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identifies microbes in genera mycobacterioum and nocardia
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acid fast stain
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color of acid fast
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red
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color of non acid fast
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blue
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identifies microbes in genera mycobacterioum and nocardia
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acid fast stain
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color of acid fast
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red
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color of non acid fast
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blue
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