BIO205 Exam 1 Question & Answers (Latest 2025).docx

BIO205 Exam 1 Question & Answers
(Latest 2025)
Antoni van Leewenhoek - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Invented microscopes, described organisms found


Louis Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Swan neck
flask, disproved spontaneous generation, showed
microbes helped fermentation, sugar to alcohol, sugar to
acids


Spontaneous Generation - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Belief that living things can arise from nonliving matter


Microbiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Study of
organisms too small to be seen by the unaided eye


Germ Theory of Disease - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Louis Pasteur discovered microbes caused disease


Pathogen - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅A specific germ
that causes disease


Robert Koch - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Belief that a
specific microbe causes a specific disease

, BIO205 Exam 1 Question & Answers
(Latest 2025)
Koch's postulates - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Experimental steps used to prove his theory


Ignaz Semmelweis - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Handwashing


Joseph Lister - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Antiseptic
techniques and disinfecting


Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Nursing, antisepsis, aseptic technique (no
contaminating)


John Snow - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Infection control,
epidemiologist


Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Developed
vaccinations


Genomics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Study of an
organism's genes