Exam 1: Chapters 1, 3, 5, 10, & 11

Question 1

What does the term ubiquitous describe in microbiology?

Answer 1

Microorganisms are everywhere!

Question 2

First to describe “animolecules” with a single-lens microscope that he made. He also liked to look at scrapings from his teeth.

Answer 2

Antonio van Leeuwenhoek

Question 3

Responsible for pasteurization and disproved spontaneous generation with swan-neck experiment.

Answer 3

Louis Pasteur

Question 4

First to demonstrate the connection between a single isolated microbe and a human disease. He has four postulates about this connection.

Answer 4

Robert Koch

Question 5

Father of epidemiology that tracked a cholera outbreak in contaiminated water.

Answer 5

Snow

Question 6

Surgeon who first developed aseptic techniques in medical surgery using carbolic acid.

Answer 6

Lister

Question 7

What is the two-named method of assigning scientificnames developed by Linnaeus?

Answer 7

Binomial system of nomenclature

Question 8

What are the levels of classification in order from most broad to most specific?

Answer 8

Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, Genus, species

Question 9

What is spontaneous generation?

Answer 9

The theory that life can arise from non-living matter.

Question 10

Which Pasteur experiment disproved spontaneous generation?

Answer 10

Swan neck experiment

Question 11

What are the tenets of cell theory?

Answer 11

1. Cells only come from pre-exsisting cells.
2. Cells are the fundamental units of organisms.

Question 12

What is endosymbiotic theory?

Answer 12

Theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts arose as a resultof prokaryotic cells establishing a symbiotic relationship within a eukaryotic host.

Question 13

What is the germ theory of disease?

Answer 13

Disease may arise from a microbial infection.