HM Flashcards

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an English mathematician and natural historian, was also an excellent microscopist

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Robert Hooke (1635–1703)

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the first book devoted to microscopic observations

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Micrographia (1665)

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In 1684, van Leeuwenhoek, who was well aware of the work of Hooke, used extremely simple microscopes of his own construction to examine the microbial content of natural substances.

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)

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The first person to see bacteria in 1676

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)

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was born in Breslau (now in Poland)
trained as a botanist and became an excellent microscopist.

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Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898)

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Studied unicellular algae and bacteria particularly interested in heat resistance in bacteria

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Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898)

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led to his discovery that some bacteria form endospores.

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Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898)

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described the life cycle of the endospore-forming bacterium Bacillus (vegetative cell  endospore  vegetative cell) and showed that vegetative cells but not endospores were killed by boiling.

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Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898)

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laid the groundwork for a system of bacterial classification, including an early attempt to define a bacterial species, an issue still unresolved today, and founded a major scientific journal of plant and microbial biology.

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Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898)

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the Defeat of Spontaneous Generation

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Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)

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is an obsolete body of thought on the ordinary formation of living organisms without descent from similar organisms.

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Spontaneous generation or anomalous generation

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microbial life can be destroyed by heat

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Aseptic techniques
Pasteurization

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13
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Techniques that prevent contamination by unwanted microorganisms

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Aseptic techniques

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In his early work Koch studied anthrax, a disease of cattle and occassionally of humans.

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Robert Koch (1843–1910)

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a disease of cattle and occassionally of humans.

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anthrax

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Anthrax is caused by an endospore forming bacterium called

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Bacillus anthracis

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Koch established that the bacteria were always present in the blood of an animal that was succumbing to the disease.

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By careful microscopy and by using special stains

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was the first to grow bacteria on solid culture media.

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Robert Koch was the first to grow bacteria on solid culture media

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  • potato slices
  • gelatin
  • agar
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Not all bacteria can grow, and slices frequently overgrown with molds.

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Potato slices

21
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as solidifying agent for various nutrient fluids.
- nutrient-supplemented gelatin was a good culture medium for the isolation and study of various bacteria,
but it had several drawbacks,
- it did not remain solid at 37°C, the optimum temperature for growth of most human pathogens.

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is a polysaccharide derived from red algae

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associate of Koch, first to use agar in bacterial culture, actual suggestion from his wife Fannie (used agar to solidify fruit jelly).

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desirable as a gelling agent for microbial culture media.

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a German bacteriologist, the development of the transparent double-sided dishes that bear his name as modification to Koch’s flat plate technique, the Petri dishes.
Richard Petri (1887)
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Formulated Enrichment culture technique
Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931)
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microorganisms are isolated from natural samples using highly selective techniques of adjusting nutrient and incubation conditions to favor a particular metabolic group of organisms.
enrichment cultures
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isolated the aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacterium ___________ from soil
Azotobacter
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isolated the first pure cultures of many soil and aquatic microorganisms, including sulfate-reducing and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, nitrogen- fixing root nodule bacteria Lactobacillus species, green algae, various anaerobic bacteria, and many others
Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931)
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studies of tobacco mosaic disease, Beijerinck used ___________ to show that the infectious agent (a virus) was smaller than a bacterium and that it somehow became incorporated into cells of the living host plant. - in this insightful work, Beijerinck not only described the first virus, but also the basic principles of virology,
selective filtering techniques
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Proposed chemolithotrophy the oxidation of inorganic compounds to yield energy further showed that these organisms, which he called chemolithotrophs, obtained their carbon from CO2.
Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953)
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Winogradsky thus revealed that, like phototrophic organisms, chemolithotrophic bacteria were
autotrophs.
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First to isolate of a nitrogen-fixing bacterium, the anaerobe Clostridium pasteurianum,
Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953)
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is an obsolete body of thought on the ordinary formation of living organisms without descent from similar organisms.
Spontaneous generation or anomalous generation