Tholen, UTA Microbiology exam 1 (ch
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Microbiology - ✔✔The study of microscopic organisms. Have ubiquitous nature
(everywhere), some beneficial, some neutral, some pathogenic (disease-causing)
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek - ✔✔Father of microbiology. Invented a microscope strong
enough to view microbes "animalcules".
Giralamo Fracastoro - ✔✔Regarded as first person to formally postulate that disease
was spread by tiny invisible seminaria "seeds of contagion".
Robert Hooke - ✔✔First to observe cells.
Louis Pasteur - ✔✔A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria
that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer. Showed that microbial
strains were unique, performed fermentation, and began the development of
pasteurization and vaccines.
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, Robert Koch - ✔✔Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens. First to
connect microbe with a specific disease. Discovered causative agent for anthrax,
cholera, and tuberculosis.
Taxonomy - ✔✔The scientific study of how living things are classified
Carolus Linneaus - ✔✔The "Father of Taxonomy". He came up with our modern day
system of classification called Binomial Nomenclature. Most famous early taxonomists.
Divided 3 kingdoms animal, plant, and mineral. Sublevels: kingdom, class, order,
family, genus, species
Phylogeny - ✔✔The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species.
Ernst Haeckel - ✔✔Father of ecology. Proposed another kingdom, protista, later
monera.
Robert Whittaker - ✔✔added fungi as a 5th kingdom of eukaryotic microbes. Divided
kingdoms into prokaryote (monera) and eukaryote (fungi, protista, plantae, animalia)
Carl Woese and George Fox - ✔✔Studied the small subunit of the ribosome
Proposed a separate taxonomic unit: Archaea.
Also proposed a new taxonomic system representing three domains: bacteria, archaea,
and eukarya.
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Microbiology - ✔✔The study of microscopic organisms. Have ubiquitous nature
(everywhere), some beneficial, some neutral, some pathogenic (disease-causing)
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek - ✔✔Father of microbiology. Invented a microscope strong
enough to view microbes "animalcules".
Giralamo Fracastoro - ✔✔Regarded as first person to formally postulate that disease
was spread by tiny invisible seminaria "seeds of contagion".
Robert Hooke - ✔✔First to observe cells.
Louis Pasteur - ✔✔A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria
that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer. Showed that microbial
strains were unique, performed fermentation, and began the development of
pasteurization and vaccines.
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, Robert Koch - ✔✔Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens. First to
connect microbe with a specific disease. Discovered causative agent for anthrax,
cholera, and tuberculosis.
Taxonomy - ✔✔The scientific study of how living things are classified
Carolus Linneaus - ✔✔The "Father of Taxonomy". He came up with our modern day
system of classification called Binomial Nomenclature. Most famous early taxonomists.
Divided 3 kingdoms animal, plant, and mineral. Sublevels: kingdom, class, order,
family, genus, species
Phylogeny - ✔✔The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species.
Ernst Haeckel - ✔✔Father of ecology. Proposed another kingdom, protista, later
monera.
Robert Whittaker - ✔✔added fungi as a 5th kingdom of eukaryotic microbes. Divided
kingdoms into prokaryote (monera) and eukaryote (fungi, protista, plantae, animalia)
Carl Woese and George Fox - ✔✔Studied the small subunit of the ribosome
Proposed a separate taxonomic unit: Archaea.
Also proposed a new taxonomic system representing three domains: bacteria, archaea,
and eukarya.
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