Tholen, UTA Microbiology exam 1 (ch
1,2,3,7) Exam 2024
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.
- 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)
- Carl Woese and George Fox - -Studied the small subunit of the ribosome
Proposed a separate taxonomic unit: Archaea.
1,2,3,7) Exam 2024
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.
- 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)
- Carl Woese and George Fox - -Studied the small subunit of the ribosome
Proposed a separate taxonomic unit: Archaea.
