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18 Cards in this Set
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Father of Western medicine |
Hippocrates |
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Who discovered immunity, and is considered the father of scientific history? |
Thucydides |
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Who first suggested there was minute creatures in neighborhood swamps. |
Marcus terentus varro |
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When was the golden age of microbiology? |
1857 to 1914 |
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Who are the two famous microbiologist? |
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch |
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What did Pasteur discover ? |
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Koch did what? |
First to demonstrate the connection between a single, isolated microbe and a known human disease. ( i.e: he discovered the bacteria that cause anthrax, cholera and tuberculosis) |
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The relationships of organisms is called |
Phylogenies |
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One way to depict these relationships is .. |
Phylogenetic tree or the tree of life |
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What are the branches of the Tree of Life? |
Bacteria Archaea Eukarya |
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Who developed not only the Tree of Life but the Binomial nomenclature? |
Linnaeus |
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Binomial Nomenclature what is this? |
Its two-word naming system to identify organisms. (I.E: humans are in the genus: Homo and have the species: Sapiens thus making us homo sapiens) |
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Where can you find all the microbes and their descriptions? |
In the Bergey's Manual |
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What is acellular? |
Is a viruses not composed of cells |
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Mictoorganisims are found in each of the three domains of life, these domains are... |
Archaea Bacteria eukarya |
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Archaea? Bacteria? Eukarya? What is the difference ? |
Archaea; bacteria: Are prokaryotes their cells have a nucleus Eukarya is Eukaryotes: their cells have a nucleus |
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Common shapes ? |
Spherical (coccus), Rod-shaped (bacillus) or curved (spirillum, spirochete or vibrio) |
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Protists are... |
An informal grouping of eukaryotes that are not plants, animals or fungi (i.e: algae and protozoa) |
