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Name this person: first to use the microscope to observe "cells"
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Robert Hooke
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Name this person: Introduced concept that living cells arise from other living cells
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Rudolph Virchow
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Name this person: A surgeon who used carbolic acid to control would infections
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Joseph Lister
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Name this person: discovered penicillin
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Alexander Fleming
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Name this person: Made an association between silkworm disease and a fungus.
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Louis Pasteur
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Name this person: Demonstrated that maggots appeared only in decaying meat that had been exposed to flies
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Francesco Redi
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General name for a sperical bacterium
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Coccus
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What is the concept that living cells arise only from other living cells?
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biogenesis
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Paul Ehrlich discovered an arsenic derivate, salvarsan, which was effective against what disease?
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Syphilis
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General name for rod-shaped bacterium.
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Bacillus
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What are photosynthetic eukaryotes?
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Algae; they need light for growth and produce oxygen and carbohydrate by photosynthesis.
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What are prokaryotes?
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cells with no nucleus; prenucleus
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Define: chemotherapy
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treatment of disease by chemical substances
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Define: mycology
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study of fungi
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What are fungi?
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eukaryotes, contain DNA within a distinct nucleaus sourrounded by a nuclear membrane. Include yeasts and molds.
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Which group is classified by their means of locomotion?
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protozoa
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How to write 'bacillus anthracis' using scientific nomenclature for each organism?
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the first name (Bacillus...genus) is capitalized but second name (anthracis...species) is not. Always underlined or italicized.
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Name: he demonstrated thing the hands of physicians minimized infections of obstetrical patients.
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Ignaz Semmelweis
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What is the germ theory of disease?
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possibility that microbes cause diseases
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What is the study of protozoa and parasitic worms?
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parasitology
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What is virulence?
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ability to cause disease
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What is aseptic technique?
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method that prevents unwanted microorganisms
aseptic=without microorganism |
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What are viruses?
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contain either DNA or RNA, may have lipid envelope layer; need host cells to reproduce
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What is fermentation
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anaerobic conversion of sugar to CO2 and alcohol by yeast.
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How did Pasteur showed how vaccinations work?
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He found out that weakened bacteria still retained their ability to induce immunity.
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An infectious protein
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Prion
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what are Helminths
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multicellular animal parasites
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bacteria generally reproduce by a process called?
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binary fission
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Rapid advances in the science of microbiology were made between 1857 and 1914 known as what?
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the Golden Age of Microbiology
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define normal microbiota
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microorganisms that colonize a host without causing disease; normal flora
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