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43 Cards in this Set
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Procatyotes |
No nucleus |
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Eucaryotes |
True nucleus |
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Ubiquitous |
Found in all natural habitats and most of those have been crated by humans |
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Viruses |
10nm |
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Bacteria |
1-19 mm |
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Procaryotes |
Are organisms that include the bacteria and archaea |
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Viruses |
Are considered one type of microbes because they are microscopic and can cause infections and diseases but they are not cells |
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Photosynthesis |
Whitefield conversion of carbon dioxide to organic material accompanied by the formation of oxygen |
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Decomposition |
Nutrient recycling this involves the breakdown of dead matter and waste into simple compounds that can be directed back into the natural cycles of living things |
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Biotechnology |
The manipulation of microorganisms to make products in an industrial setting |
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Genetic engineering |
Another era a bad technology that manipulates the genetics of microbes plants and animals for the purpose of creating new products in genetically modified organisms |
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recombinant DNA |
Wheat plant genetically engineered to resist fungi Yeast produce human hormones By swithcung gnetic material from one organism to another |
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Bioremediation |
Introducing microbes into he environment to restore stability or clean up toxic pollutants |
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Parasite |
Live in or on the body of a larger organism |
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Emerging diseases |
Newly identified connections that are being reported in increasing numbers such as Ebola HIV West Nile virus h1n1 |
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Reemerging diseases |
Older well known diseases that are increasing in occurrence. Such as tuberculosis influenza malaria hepatitis B |
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Antonie van leeuwenhork |
Dutch linen merchant and salt made microbiologist Father of bacteria and protozoology |
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Hypothesis |
Application of the scientific approach of the experimentation |
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Theory |
Collection of statements that accounts for event |
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Law |
Highest level of confidence germ theory of disease |
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Deductive reasoning |
A scientist uses general observations of some phenomenon to develop a set of facts to explain that phenomenon that is they did deuce the facts that can account for what they have observef |
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Robert koch |
Aseptic technique |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Home delivered best |
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Ignaz semmelwels |
Autopsy infections |
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Joseph lister |
Asepti |
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Tyndall |
Dust air |
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Cohn |
Endospors |
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Louis pasteur |
Permentation |
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Robert koch |
Which microbes are pathogenic |
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Robert koch |
Clearly linked a microscopic organism with a specific disease |
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John tyndall |
provided the initial evidence that some of the microbes in dust and air have very high heat resistant and a particularly vigorous treatment is required to destroy them |
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Ferdinand cohn |
German botanist clarified the reason that he would sometimes fail to completely eliminate all microorganisms |
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Sterile |
Completely free of all forms of life including spaces and viruses |
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Oliver Wendell |
Observed that mothers who gave birth at home experienced fewer infection then did mothers who gave birth in the hospital |
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Ignaz semmelweis |
Shane quite clearly that women became infected in the maternity ward after examinations by physicians coming directly from the autopsy room |
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Aseptic technique |
Aimed at reducing microbes in a medical setting and preventing wound infections |
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Domain |
Ginat all inclusive category based on a unique cell type |
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Scientific name |
Combination of the generic name followed by the species name |
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Phylogeny |
Natural relatedness between groups of living things |
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Acid fast |
Pink |
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Non acid fast |
Blue |
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Rod |
Gram positive |
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Vibrio |
Gram neg |
