UTA Microbiology Exam 1 (Ch 1, 2, 3, 7) Exam
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Miasma Theory Theory that bad air caused illness.
Leprosy in the Bible practice of quarantining people with leprosy
suggesting that people understood that dz's could
be communicable.
Leprosy is communicable, it is also a dz that
progresses slowly meaning that people were likely
quarantined after they had already spread the dz
to others.
,Roman Sewage System Built aqueducts which brought fresh water into the
city, and a giant sewer "Cloaca Maxima" which
carried waste away into the river Tiber.
Researchers believe that this infrastructure helped
protect Romans from epidemics of waterborne
illnesses.
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) "FATHER OF WESTERN MEDICINE"
Dz is not caused by the supernatural.
Hippocratic Corpus & Oath (To be a healer #1 job is
to take care of that patient w/o harming them)
Thucydides (460-395 BC) FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY (To keep records
of), advocated for evidence-based analysis of
cause and effect reasoning, studied Athenian
plague and discovered immunity
Immunity: People who sick and didn't die did not
get sick again.
,Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) Proposed that disease could be caused by "certain
minute animals/creatures... which cannot be seen
by the eye."
He was roman
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632- "FATHER OF MICROBIOLOGY"
1723) Dutch cloth merchant, was the first to develop a
lens powerful enough to view microbes. Observed
single-celled organisms "animalcules" from rain
water.
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Fermentation, pasteurization (to be able to last
longer), and spoilage by microbes.
Vaccines e.g. Rabies
, Robert Koch (1843-1910) Established method for connecting pathogen with
specific dz; Koch's postulates.
helped discover: anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Developed a new way to categorize plants and
*Taxonomy animals. Systema Naturae, KPCOFGS
Ernst Haekel (1834-1919) *Taxonomy Proposed four kingdoms (Animals, Plants,
PROTISTS, MONERA)
wrote General Morphology of Organisms
proposing four kingdoms.
Robert Whittaker (1920-1980) Proposed adding a fifth kingdom (Fungi)
*Taxonomy
Carl Woese (1928-1912) & George Fox Molecular Techniques (rRNA) and three domains
(1945-) *Taxonomy (Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya)
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Terms in this set (63)
Miasma Theory Theory that bad air caused illness.
Leprosy in the Bible practice of quarantining people with leprosy
suggesting that people understood that dz's could
be communicable.
Leprosy is communicable, it is also a dz that
progresses slowly meaning that people were likely
quarantined after they had already spread the dz
to others.
,Roman Sewage System Built aqueducts which brought fresh water into the
city, and a giant sewer "Cloaca Maxima" which
carried waste away into the river Tiber.
Researchers believe that this infrastructure helped
protect Romans from epidemics of waterborne
illnesses.
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) "FATHER OF WESTERN MEDICINE"
Dz is not caused by the supernatural.
Hippocratic Corpus & Oath (To be a healer #1 job is
to take care of that patient w/o harming them)
Thucydides (460-395 BC) FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY (To keep records
of), advocated for evidence-based analysis of
cause and effect reasoning, studied Athenian
plague and discovered immunity
Immunity: People who sick and didn't die did not
get sick again.
,Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) Proposed that disease could be caused by "certain
minute animals/creatures... which cannot be seen
by the eye."
He was roman
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632- "FATHER OF MICROBIOLOGY"
1723) Dutch cloth merchant, was the first to develop a
lens powerful enough to view microbes. Observed
single-celled organisms "animalcules" from rain
water.
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Fermentation, pasteurization (to be able to last
longer), and spoilage by microbes.
Vaccines e.g. Rabies
, Robert Koch (1843-1910) Established method for connecting pathogen with
specific dz; Koch's postulates.
helped discover: anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Developed a new way to categorize plants and
*Taxonomy animals. Systema Naturae, KPCOFGS
Ernst Haekel (1834-1919) *Taxonomy Proposed four kingdoms (Animals, Plants,
PROTISTS, MONERA)
wrote General Morphology of Organisms
proposing four kingdoms.
Robert Whittaker (1920-1980) Proposed adding a fifth kingdom (Fungi)
*Taxonomy
Carl Woese (1928-1912) & George Fox Molecular Techniques (rRNA) and three domains
(1945-) *Taxonomy (Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya)
