Ch.1 Interacative glossary Flashcards
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A common name for a microorganism that causes disease.
Germ
A complex community of microbes that being attached to a surface act differently than as individuals.
Biofilm
A controlled heating process that destroys pathogens in a fluid such as milk.
Pasteurization
A disease-causing infectious agent.
Pathogen
A immunological defensive process in which bacteria or viruses can be taken into white blood cells.
Phagocytosis
A liquid nutrient solution for growing microbes.
Broth
A microscopic form of life including bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa.
Microorganism
A particle of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat; neither prokaryotic nor eukaryotic.
Virus
A prokaryotic domain.
Bacteria
A set of procedures by which a specific organism can be related to a specific disease.
Koch’s postulates
A type of fungus.
Mold
A visible mass of bacterial cells growing on a culture plate.
Colony
An accumulation or colony of microorganisms of one type.
Pure culture
An antibody preparation produced in an immunized animal.
Antitoxin
An antimicrobial substance produced by some fungal and bacterial species that inhibits other microorganisms.
Antibiotic
An ill-defined entity generally referring to an altered chemical quality of the atmosphere that was incorrectly thought to cause disease.
Miasma
An organism in the protista group that carries out photosynthesis.
Alga
Bacterial or fungal species that recycle materials from dead organisms.
Decomposers
Established evidence for his germ theory of disease.
Pasteur
He showed that maggots do not arise through spontaneous generation.
Redi
He was able to correlate hand washing with the prevention of disease spread.
Semmelweis
He was able to show that a specific microbe could cause a specific disease.
Koch
He was the first to introduce the therapeutic value of vaccination.
Jenner
In science inquiry, the comparative condition in an experiment.
Control
