Lecture 6: Important People Cont.

Question 1

Beijernick

Answer 1

• N+S cycling
  *Nfixation
  *father of “microbial ecology”

Question 2

Flemming

Answer 2

• penicillin antibiotics
• microbe-microbe interactions
  *predicted antibiotic resistance

Question 3

Microbiology 50s-70s (4)

Answer 3

1. an understanding of cell bio, biochem, and immunology increased
2. microbial taxonomy based on cytological and physiological factors
3. molecular genetics beginds
4. computers

Question 4

Microbiology in the 20th centurary

Answer 4

explosive synergy amongst disciplines especially molecular genetics and molecular ecology

Question 5

Brock

Answer 5

isolated Taq polymerase which is heat stable for PCR

Question 6

PCR steps

Answer 6

lmao

Question 7

Mullis

Answer 7

used Taq polymerase to develop a Nobel prize

Question 8

Gunter Wachtershaur

Answer 8

• iron-sulfur world theory and surface metabolism
  *understanding the evolution of the first cells
  *before polymerase was used to stick to iron pyrite to be functional, not to encode information

Question 9

Woese

Answer 9

*phylogenetic classification w/ 16S rRNA + 18s in eukaryotes
*established 3 domains of which kingdoms diverge

Question 10

Venter

Answer 10

Human genome project which led to the discovery of new species