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Day one and your professors is throwing content at you that was apparently covered by "prereqs" but you don't know any of it? Fret not! This document contains the foundations of Microbiology with diagrams, study tips, and memorization tools. NOW WITH 10 FREE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!

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Microbiology- the study of org!isms too small to see by the hum! eye


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big study "eas: Not all microbes "e bad!
• Cell struct#e/f$cti% M!y actual' help us
*study tip • Microbial m&abolism, growth, !d gen&ics
People who paved a way
Flash c"d these with spaced
rep&iti% for easy po+ts % ! ex.


Credited with First First to suggest Impr/ed li2ng Cre1ed h!d Ag" pl1es
cre1i% of obs(v1i% microbes cause c%diti%s & was,ng for microbial
microscope of microbes disease, not bad air record keep+g proced#es growth
Galileo Ant%io v! Rob(t F*rence Ignaz P,lip F!ny
Leeuwenhoek Koch Night+gale Se-elweis Hesse
Zacch"ias & Fr!cesco Louis Edw"d Joseph Paul Je)if(
H!s j!ssen Redi Paste# Je)( List( Ehrlich Doudna
Cre1( of FATHER OF Suggested Suggested we c!
Disc/(y of Dispr/ed Genome (DNA)
magni0c1i%
*sp%t!eous *
paste#iz1i% IMMUNIZATION
by us+g the
dis+fect+g kill microbes w/o
wo$ds kill+g the p1ient
edit+g system
=
regen(1i% scienti0c called CRISPR-Cas9
m&hod

6 Major groups of microorganisms *study tip
Flash c"d these with spaced
rep&iti% for easy $d(st!d+g %
! ex.


N.e Unicellul" or Euk"yotes or Special qualities
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multicellul"? prok"yotes?
Protozoa Unicellul" Euk"yotes Appe3ages & c! be p"asitic

F$gi Both- yeast Euk"yotes C,t+ cell walls & absorb nutrients
is %' $i from the en2r%ment
B1(ia Unicellul" Prok"yotes Peptog'c! cell wall & reproduce
*
through b+"y 0ssi%
Archaea Unicellul" Prok"yotes No peptogylc! & live + extreme
en2r%ments
Viruses No cells- No cells Not alive, oblig1e p"asites
acellul"
Helm+ths Multicellul" Euk"yotes On' c(ta+ life stages "e microscopic
(tape
worm ,&c)

, The scientific method



3
l. Obs(ve
2.Hypothesize T,s m&hod compl&ed multiple times by multiple
3. Exp(iment scientists !d hold+g true is wh1 makes a
4.Ana'ze *scienti0c theory more th! a "theory"
Scientific Names
DOMAIN
'


First p"t is the genus, sec%d is the species n.e
KINGDOM
PHYLUM T,s ord( c! be
CLASS memorized by a 4em%ic. Did K+g P,lip Come
ORDER
FAMILH
Feel free to use t,s %e or Ov( For Gre1 Soup
(1 )
s
GENUS
make yo# own! Capitalize the genus
%' the genus
c! be shortened
SPECIES (2nd) Homo sapien or는
For ex.ple, hum!s' scienti0c n.e isσ H. sapien
No capitaliz1i% of the species




* Sp%t!eous gen(1i%- !
+correct theory th1 st1es th1
li2ng org!isms c! orig+1e
from n%alive objects (dust
* Paste#iz1i%- A system th1
he1s milk/juice to a temp to kill
microorg!isms & cools it
quick'. Makes millk/juice safe
cre1es fleas,ro5+g me1 makes to dr+k
maggots, &c)


* Scienti0c theory- ! expl!1i% !d
descripti% of why ! event occ#s +
n1#e th1 has been hea2' tested * B+"y Fissi%- a type of asexual
reproducti% th1 l&s prok"yotes
cre1e identical daught( cells

Active recall questions- take these w/o the use of notes!

Wh1 scientist dispr/ed sp%t!eous gen(1i%? How did he propose li2ng org!isms c.e to be?


W,ch 2 c1egories of microorg!ism "e multicellul"? Wh1 4 "e $icellul"?

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