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What cellular components do all viruses contain? |
Nucleic acids and proteins |
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What theory finally dispelled the long-held idea of spontaneous generation? |
Germ theory- the idea that microbes invade other organisms and cause disease. |
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What was one contribution to microbiology made by Lister? |
He developed aseptic technique to avoid contaminating his patients and surgical tools with microbes |
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Which of the following is a use of chemotherapy? |
Giving an antibiotic to a child to treat Strep throat |
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Who was the first person to use a compound microscope with two lenses to visualize plant cells? |
Hooke |
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What vaccine did Edward Jenner develop using cows and milk maids? |
Smallpox |
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What was Pasteur's contribution to Germ Theory? |
He created a swam neck flask that allowed air into the boiled broth in the flask without allowing microbes in the air to fall in Developed pasteurization
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How will we visualize viruses in our lab this semester. |
We won't. You need an electronic microscope to see them |
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Who discovered penicillin after fungus killed his Staphylococcus aureus culture? |
Alexander Flemimg |
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What did Griffith discover with bacteria? |
That bacteria can transfer DNA to each other. |
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The back of the cinchona tree has long been used to make a drug to treat what disease? |
Malaria |
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What did Erhlich discover when he was looking at bacteria under the microscope? |
That staining the bacteria with certain dyes killed them |
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What virus was Stanley working on when he discovers that based on its crystal structure, viruses seem to have some properties of living organisms and some properties of chemical substances? |
Tobacco Mosaic virus |
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Why did Koch think it was important to grow bacteria on solid culture medium in order to make a pure culture? |
he showed that an agar plate would allow you to pick a single colony of identical bacteria |
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What did Pasteur learn from his experiments with cholera and chickens? |
The chickens given dead cholera became immune to the live cholera |
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Alexander Flemings work with bacteria also provided evidence that what human product has strong antibacterial properties? |
Amylase and saliva |
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What experiment did Redi do to help debunk spontaneous generation? |
Observed that house fly a laid their eggs on meat and those eggs turned into maggots. |
