NWTC Microbiology Exam 1 – Comprehensive Study Guide and Exam Preparation Material
Anton van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer ✔✔Created 200-300x magnification microscope.
Biogenesis vs Vital Force (Spontaneous Generation). "Animalcules"
Robert Hooke - correct answer ✔✔first to observe "small chambers" in cork and call them cells.
First compound microscope 25x.
Louis Pasteur - correct answer ✔✔Pasteurization. Proposed the Germ Theory of Disease. Swan
neck experiment. Proved Biogenesis.
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔Identified cause of childbed fever. Emphasized doctor
cleanliness.
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔Mapped the occurrence of cholera in London. Modern
plumbing and sanitation based off of separation of sewage and drinking water.
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Christian Ehrenberg - correct answer ✔✔Suggested "rod like" organisms be called "bacteria"
Germ Theory - correct answer ✔✔the theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain
microbes
Joseph Lister - correct answer ✔✔Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
"Antisepsis" spraying carbolic acid
, Robert Koch - correct answer ✔✔Doctor who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis.
Found that anthrax disease from cattle sometimes found in humans.
Robert Koch - correct answer ✔✔developed Koch's postulates. Microbes must be:
1.Present
2. Isolated and Purified
3. Inoculated into healthy host,
4. Recultivated in new specimen.
Edward Jenner - correct answer ✔✔Discovered the small pox vaccine (First Vaccine). People w/
cowpox never got smallpox.
Ivanowsky - correct answer ✔✔First person to demonstrate the existence of viruses? Filtered
leaves with Tobacco mosaic disease. Virus=living poison=liquid disease.
Walter Reed - correct answer ✔✔Studying yellow fever using electron microscope. Virus 100x
smaller than bacteria.
5 I's - correct answer ✔✔1. Inoculation
2. Incubation
3. Isolation
4. Inspection
5. Identification
Test Tubes, Petri Dishes - correct answer ✔✔Used to hold culture media
Viruses - correct answer ✔✔Microbes that can't grow on artificial media and must be grown in
cell cultures.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer ✔✔Created 200-300x magnification microscope.
Biogenesis vs Vital Force (Spontaneous Generation). "Animalcules"
Robert Hooke - correct answer ✔✔first to observe "small chambers" in cork and call them cells.
First compound microscope 25x.
Louis Pasteur - correct answer ✔✔Pasteurization. Proposed the Germ Theory of Disease. Swan
neck experiment. Proved Biogenesis.
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔Identified cause of childbed fever. Emphasized doctor
cleanliness.
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔Mapped the occurrence of cholera in London. Modern
plumbing and sanitation based off of separation of sewage and drinking water.
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Christian Ehrenberg - correct answer ✔✔Suggested "rod like" organisms be called "bacteria"
Germ Theory - correct answer ✔✔the theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain
microbes
Joseph Lister - correct answer ✔✔Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
"Antisepsis" spraying carbolic acid
, Robert Koch - correct answer ✔✔Doctor who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis.
Found that anthrax disease from cattle sometimes found in humans.
Robert Koch - correct answer ✔✔developed Koch's postulates. Microbes must be:
1.Present
2. Isolated and Purified
3. Inoculated into healthy host,
4. Recultivated in new specimen.
Edward Jenner - correct answer ✔✔Discovered the small pox vaccine (First Vaccine). People w/
cowpox never got smallpox.
Ivanowsky - correct answer ✔✔First person to demonstrate the existence of viruses? Filtered
leaves with Tobacco mosaic disease. Virus=living poison=liquid disease.
Walter Reed - correct answer ✔✔Studying yellow fever using electron microscope. Virus 100x
smaller than bacteria.
5 I's - correct answer ✔✔1. Inoculation
2. Incubation
3. Isolation
4. Inspection
5. Identification
Test Tubes, Petri Dishes - correct answer ✔✔Used to hold culture media
Viruses - correct answer ✔✔Microbes that can't grow on artificial media and must be grown in
cell cultures.
