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Four macromolecules

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Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, and Nucleic Acid

2
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Three domains

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Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya

3
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Peptidoglycan in cell walls is the domain blank

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Bacteria

4
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Lack membrane bound nucleus is domain blank

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Bacteria

5
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Have a unique rRNA sequence and membrane lipids

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Domain Archaea

6
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Live in extreme environments

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Domain Archaea

7
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Generally larger than Bacteria and Archaea

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Protists

8
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Two types of Eukaryotic cells

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Protists and Fungi

9
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Chemoheterotroph absorbers

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Fungi

10
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First person the observe and describe microbs accurately

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek

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Living organisms can develop from nonliving things or decomposing matter

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Spontaneous generation

12
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Blank performed experiment with curved neck flasks to discredit blank

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Louis Pasteur, spontaneous generation

13
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Demonstrated that dust carries microbes

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John Tyndall

14
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Blank described that microbes caused diseases

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Germ theory

15
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Provided evidence that microbes cause disease

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Joseph Lister

16
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Blank created procedure for determining if a specific microbe caused a specific disease, criteria known as blank

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Robert Koch, Koch’s postulates

17
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Limitations of Koch’s postulates

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Some organisms cannot be grown in cultures, using humans as test subjects is unethical