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9.16 Exam study 1
Question | Answer |
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Why are microorganisms useful in research? | They are part of the human environment and therefore important to human health |
Groups of organisms classified as microbes | fungi, algae, bacteria, protozoans, viruses ( non living) |
developed process to purify penicillin | Ernest Chain and Howard Florey |
discovered penicillin and its antibacterial properties | Alexander Fleming (Scottish physician) |
coined term "chemotherapy | Paul Erlich |
crystallized tobacco mosaic virus | Wendell Stanley |
characterized viruses | Martinus Beijerinck |
Discovered leukocytes (wbc's) | Metchinkoff |
Vaccine | Vaca - latin word for cow |
Jenner | Developed smallpox vaccine |
Semmelweis | discovered and died of puerperal fever (streptococcus pyrogenes infection) |
cause of puerperal fever | doctors didn't wash hand after autopsies |
Koch Postulates | 1.Specific causative agent must be found in q case of disease 2)disease organism must be isolated in pure culture 3)Inoculation of sample of the culture into a healthy susceptible animal must produce the same disease 4)Disease organism must b recovered |
Louis Pasteur's accomplishments | 1. Pasteurization 2. Disproved spontaneous generation 3. Wine making 4. Disease in silkworm 5. Developed rabies vaccine |
description of Francesco Redi's experiment to disprove spontaneous generation | wrapped rotting meat in gauze...kept flies from getting to meat;however, eggs hatch on top of gauze |
Earth, water, fire, air (element therapy) | Aristole |
Spontaneous Generation | Living things arise from non-living things |
Germ Theory of Disease | Microorganisms can invade other organisms and cause disease |
Formulated Cell Theory | Matthias Scheleiden and Theodor Schwann |
Cell Theory | Cells are the fundamental units of life and carry out all basic functions of living things |
Anton van Leewenhoek | observed "animalcules" Made simple microscope (magnified up to 300x) |
Robert Hooke (English scientist) | Built 1st compound microscope Coin term "cell" which looking at cork |
Varro What was his belief? | Scholar and Write, who proposed that tiny invisible animals entered the body through the mouth and nose to cause disease. |
Hippocrates | Set forth ethical standards for practicing medicine that are still in use today. |