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Refers to the old biotechnological processes based on the inherent capability of microbes to carry out a reaction. |
Ancient Biotechnology |
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Inventions were based on common observations in nature. T/F |
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Earliest example of biotechnology is? |
Domestication of Plants (10,000 years ago) |
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First Domesticated Plants: |
Rice Barley Wheat |
R B W |
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First domesticated/ tamed animals |
Dog Sheep Goat |
D S G |
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First Direct Product |
Cheese |
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An enzyme found in stomach of calves. (used to sour milk). |
Rennet |
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One of the oldest microbes |
Yeast |
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Oldest fermentation |
Making of beer |
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Oldest fermentation started in? (Making of beer) |
Sumerian and Babylonia (7,000 BCE) |
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When did Egyptians use Yeast to make leavened bread? |
4,000 BCE |
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Fermentation of wine was made in? |
Assyria (3,500 BCE) |
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The process that many microorganisms (yeast, moulds and bacteria) use to convert sugars into energy. |
Fermentation |
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Causes bread to rise |
Carbon Dioxide |
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Makes yoghurt sour |
Lactic Acid |
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Produced in beer and wine |
Alcohol |
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When and where? Did the first antibiotic, moldy soybean curds, was used to treat boils. |
500 BCE China |
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One of the oldest examples of crossbreeding |
Mule |
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An offspring of a male donkey and female horse |
Mule |
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Started when industrial exploitation of fermentation process for productiob of huge numbers of products began |
Classical Biotechnology (1750-20th Century) |
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-First description of living cells -Reported the first clear drawing of plant cells from a cork |
1663: Robert Hooke |
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-Discovery and Description of Bacteria and Protozoa. |
1677 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek |
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Genus Selenomonas |
A cescent shaped bacteria found from the human mouth |
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-Discovered the bacteria origin of fermentation
-He proved that living cells and yeast were responsible for sugar to alcohol
-Fermentations are sour because of the contamination of microorganims in air |
1862 Louis Pasteur |
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-Discovered law of inheritance or Principle of Inheritance |
1863 Gregor Mendel |
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Law of Inheritance |
Law of Segregation Law of Dominance Law of Independent Assortment |
S D I |
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Two factors that determine a trait segregate when sex cells are formed |
Law of segregation |
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The dominant trait, the one shown, the recessive trait, the one not shown |
Law of Dominance |
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Renowned for the principals of vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization |
1866 Louis Pasteur |
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Identifies DNA in the sperm of a freshwater fish of the salmon family. - was the first scientist to isolate nuleic acid in 1869 |
1869 Fedrich Miescher |
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A technique of identifying a bacteria through staining was developed by him |
1877 Robert Koch |
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Discovery of chromatin leading to the discovery of chromosomes -Discovery of Cytogenetics |
1878 Walther Fleming |
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Chromosomes behavior during animal cell |
Cytogenetics |
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Commercially produced on a nutrient source rich in sugar (like molasses) |
1915 Baker's Yeast |
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Introduced by Hungarian Agricltural Engnineer Karl Ereky |
1919 Biotechnology |
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Penicillin |
Drug that was made to clear an infection |
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Chloromycetin |
Firt Synthetic Antibiotics |
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Discovered the first antibiotic |
Paul Ehrlich |
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