1 Intro Lecture

Question 1

what is micro bio?

Answer 1

study of things of micron size

10^-6

Question 2

Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 2

first microscope

Question 3

Pasteur

Answer 3

pasteurization (of beer)

disproved spontaneous generation

Question 4

what is disease

Answer 4

series of symptoms

Question 5

what is Germ Theory of Disease

Answer 5

idea of germ comes from Pasteur’s experiment
seed of disease
something very small

SOME DISEASES ARE NOT CAUSED by germs

Question 6

Koch’s postulate

Answer 6

for organism to be the cause of disease it must…

• found in all cases of disease
• prepped and maintained in pure culture
• can produce original infection even after several generations of culture
• retrievable from inoculated animal, culture again

there’s always a way to prove that a germ is the cause of the disease
find it in common, grow it, infect another group, re-culture

Question 7

Flemming

Answer 7

antibiotics

accidental discovery of penicillin… fungus produced something that destroyed bacteria

Question 8

Pasteur’s experiment

Answer 8

Disproved spont. gen

• broth, open to air, spoiled (spont. gen “proof”)
• broth sealed in jar didn’t spoil… ppl didn’t buy it
• J necked flask…no spoiling

Question 9

Vaccines

Answer 9

Jenner, smallpox

took sores of sick, inoculated not sick (cow pox), way less small pox