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What is a prokaryotic cell and an example of one |
No nucleus, bacteria |
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What is a eukaryotic cell and 3 examples of one |
Has a nucleus, Algae, fungi, protazoa |
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What is an acellular |
Virus, nucleic acids and proteins |
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Robert Hooke |
-first compound microscope with 2 lenses - observed cork and named cells |
Microscope |
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Anton von Leewenhock |
First to observe living organisms Saw up to 300x |
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What is the Germ Theory of Disease? |
Microorganisms can invade other organisms to cause disease Disproves spontaneous generation |
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What did Aristotle believe about the gern theory? |
That fire, earth, air, and water wrre the basis of all life |
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What was Redi's experiement? |
Do worms grow from meat |
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Spallanzani |
Boiled and sealed liquids to show that they would not grow microbes |
Water |
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Needham |
Believed in spontaneous generation. Thought spallanzanis reuslts were due to lack of air in the flask. |
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How did Pasteur disprove Needham |
Used swan neck flasks to show that air could enter and the liquid was still sterile. |
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What were Koch's precultures made of? |
First heated gelatin than agar from suggestion of assistants wife. |
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Four words to describe Koch's postulates |
One organism, one disease |
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What are the 4 parts of Koch's postulates? |
1. There is a specific CAUSE in every disease 2. Disease causing organism must be PRESENT in a pure culture 3. Infecting a healthy animal creates the SAME disease 4. Disease causing organism must be RECOVERED by the infected organism |
cause Present Same Recovered |
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Semmelweis |
Suggested that doctors wash their hands |
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Lister |
Created the first antiseptic from diluted carblolic acid |
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What is immunology? |
Study of the host immune system and how it interacts with invading microbes |
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Virology |
Study of viruses |
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Chemotherapy |
Chemicals used to treat disease |
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What was Jenners experiment? |
He noticed that milk maids were not getting cow pox. Hypothesis was that exposure to cow pox makes you less likely to get small pox. Infected a boy with a cow blister, then infected him with small pox, and he was fine. |
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What was Pasteurs experiment? |
He accidently injected a chicken with old dead cholera, and then with new alive cholera, and the chicken was immune. |
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What vaccines did Pasteur lead to invent? |
Rabies and cholera |
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Viruses can only be seen by |
An electron microscope |
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Beijerinck |
Discovered the infectious agent must be smaller than a bacterium. |
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Stanley |
Coined tabacco mosaic viruses, which contained some live and some chemical properties |
Tabacco |
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What did Ehrlich discover? |
That some dyes stained bacteria but not animal cells |
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What did Fleming discover? |
That lysozyme found in saliva and teas kills bacteria |
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Fleming is known as |
The father of antibiotics |
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What did Griffith discover? |
Harmless bacteria coule get genes from other bacteria and become pathogenic. |
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Hershey and Case discovered... |
Some viruses have DNA and others have RNA |
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