Three domains of life - correct answer Eukarya, Bacteria, Archaea
Which kingdoms contain unicellular organisms? - correct answer Bacteria and
Archaea
Which kingdoms contain multicellular organisms? - correct answer Plants and
Animals (including fungi)
Robert Hooke - correct answer - Built the first compound microscope
- 30x power
- Observed and drew nematoes, mites, and mold sporangia
- Coined the term cell
Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer - Experimented with grinding v
powerful lenses
- 500x magnification
- First person to observe single celled organisms
- Called them animalcules
Edward Jenner - correct answer Introduced vaccination against smallpox with
cowpox scabs
Lazzaro Spallanzani - correct answer Displayed that broth sterilized by boiling failed
to grow microbes. People argued it was due to lack of oxygen
Louis Pasteur - correct answer - Chirality
- Fermentative metabolism
,- Used swan necked flasks to disprove spontaneous generation
- Flame under flask, heat sterilization can prevent microbial growth
- Microbes arise from pre existing microbes
- Developed first vaccine based on attenuated strains of microbial pathogens
Florence Nightingale - correct answer - Founder of medical epidemiology
- Demonstrated that infection caused more morbidity than any other condition during the Crimean war
- Persuaded more hygienic conditions
Robert Koch - correct answer - Specific microbes cause specific diseases
- Started with anthrax to determine chain of infection
What are Koch's 4 postulates and what are they used for? - correct answer Koch's 4
Postulates: Defining the causative agent of disease
1) Microbe is found in cases of disease; not in healthy people
2) Microbe is isolated from diseased host and grown in a pure culture
3) When microbe introduced in a healthy host, disease ensues
4) Same strain obtained from newly diseased host
Defining the causative agent of disease.
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer Hand washing an important process for
physicians
Joseph Lister - correct answer Clean (free from microbes) operating areas for his
patients
Alexander Fleming - correct answer - Discovered Penicillin
Howard Florey & Ernst Chain - correct answer - Purified penicillin
,- Inhibits formation of bacterial cell wall
Dimitry Ivanovsky - correct answer Causative agent of TMD is smaller than known
microbes
Martinus Beijernick - correct answer Agent of disease could not be bacterial cells
Wendell Stanley - correct answer Processed 4000 kg of tobacco leaves and purified
infection virus by crystallography
What are the four aspects of a microbe? - correct answer - Requires a microscope
to be seen
- 0.2 micrometer to mm
- Unicellular
- Contains in genome capacity to reproduce its own kind
What are the three exceptions to the microbial definition? - correct answer 1) Some
bacteria can be seen with the naked eye
2) Some bacteria live in complex communities - are they still considered unicellular?
3) Viruses are non cellular particles containing genetic material
Fred Sanger - correct answer Developed DNA sequencing method
Metagenome - correct answer Environmental collection of sequences, microbes
isolated from natural environment, computational strategy
Microbial ecologists - correct answer Studying microbes in their natural habitat
What were 3 of Sergei Winogradsky's contributions? - correct answer Among the
first to study bacteria in their natural habitat
1) Lithotrophs
, 2) Enrichment cultures
3) Winogradsky column
Lithotrophs - correct answer Microbes that metabolize inorganic minerals instead of
organic nutrients like the microbes isolated by koch
Earnest Haeckel - correct answer Microscopic organisms constitute a third group,
neither animal nor plant
Monera
Herbert copeland - correct answer Monera divided into two groups
- Eukaryotic protists (protozoa and algae
- Prokaryotic bacteria
Lynn Margulis - correct answer Endosymbiosis
Carl Woese - correct answer - Discovered archaea using 16s RNA subunit
- Molecular clock
Frederick Griffith - correct answer Transformation
Oswald Avery + Team - correct answer Genetic material for transformation is DNA
Light microscopy - correct answer Resolves images by their absorption of light
Electron microscopy - correct answer Uses beams of electrons to resolve
Atomic force microscopy - correct answer Uses intermolecular forces between a
probe and object to map 3D topography of a cell or cell parts