Microbiology Study Guide One

Front 1

Define the term microbiology

Back 1

The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms and their effects on other living organisms.

Front 2

Describe some of the different disciplines (areas of study) that are considered part of microbiology

Back 2

Biology
Zoology
Botany

Front 3

Compare spontaneous generation and biogenesis

Back 3

Spontaneous generation: the doctrine that held that non-living matter could spontaneously give rise to living organisms.
Biogenesis: The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.

Front 4

What did Jenner contribute to Microbiology?

Back 4

Jenner work to develope a method of inoculation against smallpox did show that contagion, however transmitted, could be interrupted.

Front 5

What important contribution was made by Pasteur?

Back 5

Louis Pasteur proposed that germs cause infectious disease. He formulated the 'germ theory of disease.'

Front 6

What important contribution was made by Lister?

Back 6

Joseph Lister was a British physician who introduced the principles of sterile surgery to his practice. He wrote a paper on disease to suggest that microbes were responsible for postsurgical gangrene and other sugical complications.

Front 7

What important contribution was made by Koch:

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Koch's postulates a series of procedures by which a specific microorganism can be related to a specific infectious disease.

Front 8

What important contribution was made by Ehrlich?

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Synthesized a "magic bullet" for syphilis

Front 9

What important contribution was made by Fleming?

Back 9

Discovered Penicillin

Front 10

What is the germ theory of disease?

Back 10

The germ theory of disease holds which holds that microorganisms are responsible for infectious disease.