UTA Microbiology Test 1 (Ch 1,2,3 & 7) Questions With 100% Correct Answers Latest Update Miasma Theory - Correct Answer-The theory that diseases were caused by miasma or bad air arising from organic decay, filth, or other conditions of the local environment.
•Leprosy in the Bible - Correct Answer-refers to the practice of quarantining people with leprosy and other diseases, suggesting that people understood that diseases could be communicable.
•Roman sewage system - Correct Answer-
disease to bad air, mal'aria, which they called "miasmatic odors."
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) - Correct Answer-
Greek physician; "father of medicine"
Thucydides (460-395 BC) - Correct Answer-
concept of immunity.
1 Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) - Correct Answer-propose the concept that things we cannot see (what we now call microorganisms) can cause disease.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - Correct Answer-"father of microbiology", Dutch linen merchant, first to observe living microbes, single-lens magnified up to 300X
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) - Correct Answer-
Showed microbes caused fermentation and spoilage
Disproved spontaneous generation of microorganisms
Developed pasteurization
Demonstrated what is now known as Germ Theory of Disease
•microbe food spoilage = human spoilage
Robert Koch (1843-1910) - Correct Answer-
used the culture-plate method for isolating bacteria and demonstrated how cholera was 2 transmitted by food and water; his discovery changed the way health departments cared for persons with infectious disease
Wavelength - Correct Answer-The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave
Amplitude - Correct Answer-the height of a wave's crest
Frequency - Correct Answer-the number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time
•Energy of waves - Correct Answer-interact with materials by being reflected, absorbed, or transmitted.
Reflection - Correct Answer-the bouncing back of a ray of light, sound, or heat when the
ray hits a surface that it does not go through
absorbance - Correct Answer--occurs when a material captures the energy of a light wave.
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•Leprosy in the Bible - Correct Answer-refers to the practice of quarantining people with leprosy and other diseases, suggesting that people understood that diseases could be communicable.
•Roman sewage system - Correct Answer-
disease to bad air, mal'aria, which they called "miasmatic odors."
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) - Correct Answer-
Greek physician; "father of medicine"
Thucydides (460-395 BC) - Correct Answer-
concept of immunity.
1 Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) - Correct Answer-propose the concept that things we cannot see (what we now call microorganisms) can cause disease.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - Correct Answer-"father of microbiology", Dutch linen merchant, first to observe living microbes, single-lens magnified up to 300X
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) - Correct Answer-
Showed microbes caused fermentation and spoilage
Disproved spontaneous generation of microorganisms
Developed pasteurization
Demonstrated what is now known as Germ Theory of Disease
•microbe food spoilage = human spoilage
Robert Koch (1843-1910) - Correct Answer-
used the culture-plate method for isolating bacteria and demonstrated how cholera was 2 transmitted by food and water; his discovery changed the way health departments cared for persons with infectious disease
Wavelength - Correct Answer-The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave
Amplitude - Correct Answer-the height of a wave's crest
Frequency - Correct Answer-the number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time
•Energy of waves - Correct Answer-interact with materials by being reflected, absorbed, or transmitted.
Reflection - Correct Answer-the bouncing back of a ray of light, sound, or heat when the
ray hits a surface that it does not go through
absorbance - Correct Answer--occurs when a material captures the energy of a light wave.
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