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diplococcus pneumonia
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cocci in pairs, casual agent for pneumonia
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staphyloccus aureus
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cocci in grape-like clusters golden color colonies
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streptococcus pyogenes
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cocci in chains, forming pus
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micrococcus roseus
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individual cocci, forming red-colored colones
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lactobacillius acidophilus
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rod shaped organisms, produces lactic acid when grown in milk (from the breakdown of lactose) (milk sugar)
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corynebacterium diphtheria
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coryneform shaped organism causing the disease diphtheria
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acetobacter aceti
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rod shaped organisms which form acetic acid during grape sugar fermentation
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(converting wine to vinegar)
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propionbacterium shermanii
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rod shaped, bacterium which on fermenting produces propionic acid used in Swiss cheese manufacture
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clostridium butylicum
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anaerobic rod-shaped bacterium, spore former, which produces butyric acid during fermentation
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streptococcus lactis
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cocci in chains, produces lactic acid from the breakdown of milk sugar (lactose) as in yogurt or buttermilk
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis var hominis
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from humans -- pathogenic for man
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis var bovis
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from cows -- pathogenic for man
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis var avium
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from birds -- non-pathogenic for man
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Carl Linneaus
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Father of Taxonomy (1734-1758)
Two Kingdoms -- Animalia + Plants |
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Ernst H. Haeckel
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Three Kingdom System (1866) *added protista
Added Protista (includes all microorganism, regardless of size / shape |
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Herbert F. Copeland
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Four Kingdom System (1927) *added monera
Added Monera -- smaller life forms like bacteria, as well as viruses |
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R.H. Whittaker
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Five Kingdom System (1963-69) *added fungi
Fungi removed from Plant Kingdom, and moved to Fungi Kingdom. |
This new kingdom contained the non-photosynthetic organisms which absorbed organic nutrients from the environement like bacteria
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What is the oldest know life form (or microorganism) that currently exists?
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bacteria
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Carl Linneaus used what method to classify animals and plants?
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bionomial nomenclature (order, classes, genus, and species)
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Antonie van Leeuenhoek discovered microbes by how?
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Using his own manufactured single lens microscope, 300X magnification power
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What microscopic organisms stays in moist environments?
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procaryotes
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Lack a nuclear membrane
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procaryote
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Fission aka coloning
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genetically identical cells
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Mitosis
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genetically identical cells (diploid)
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Meiosis
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formation of haploid gametes
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The father of protozoology and bacteriology?
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek
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What are procaryotes?
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bacteria and cyanobacteria
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Rickettsia
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small obligate intracelluar parasites (like viruses), yet they are cellular in nature and divide by binary fission (like bacteria). commonly found in insects
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Chlamydiae
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small obligate intracellular parasites (like viruses). they are celluar and live inside the host cell and also divide by binary fission.
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