Tholen, UTA Microbiology exam 1 (ch 1,2,3,7)
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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.
, Tholen, UTA Microbiology exam 1 (ch 1,2,3,7)
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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)
Questions And Answers|Latest Update
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.
, Tholen, UTA Microbiology exam 1 (ch 1,2,3,7)
Questions And Answers|Latest Update
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)
