Test 1 (CH1-2) Flashcards

(36 cards)

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Robert Hooke

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Drawings of microorganisms & blueprint of microscope

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Leeuwenhoek

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Built microscope that can magnify 50-300 times

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3
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Spontaneous generation

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claims that living organism can develop from non living

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4
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Pasteur’s data showed ….?

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that spontaneous generation theory is wrong

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5
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Germ theory disease

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the claim that microorganisms cause diseases

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6
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Who published the book Micrographia?

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Robert Hooke

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Pasteur showed that yeast and bacteria produce specific metabolic products such as alcohols & organic acids by ….?

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Fermentaion

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8
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Joseph Lister is best known for….?

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Antiseptics

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9
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What are antiseptics

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A substance that stops or slows down the growth of microorganisms which is discovered by Joseph Lister

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10
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Koch Postulate is important by …. ?

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determining a causal relationships between microorganisms & a specific disease

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Pasteur showed that even cultures that are open to cair can remain sterile by using

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Swan-neck flask (long tube)

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12
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Koch Postulates cannot always be applied since _____; therefore, microbiologist use______?

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not everything can be grown inside a culture , & they use molecular and genetic evidence

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13
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Pasteur siccessfully attempted vaccination of a boy suffering from___?

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rabies

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14
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Louis Pasteur made contribution to what fields of microbiology

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Food & dairy microbiology, and medical microbiology

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15
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Characteristics of many types of dyes to strain microorganism

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able to bind cells by ionic, covalent, or hydrophobic bond. & and they have chromophore groups

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16
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Methylene blue, crystal violet and safranin are examples of which type of dye? (basic/ acidic)

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Basic & acidic dyes bind cells by what type of bond?

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Chromophore groups

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chemical moieties that are present in many types of dyes to stain microorganism. Chromophore groups contains conjugated double bond that gives dye its color

19
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What type of staining is the background stained but not the cells

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Negative type

20
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The ___ stain was developed by ____ in ____.

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Gram; Christian Gram: 1884

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Gram-negative, and gram-positive bacteria is an example of

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differential staining

22
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india ink and nigrosin are both _____

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negative or capsule

23
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Gram strain step (crystal violet)

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cells stain purple

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Gram stain steps (iodine)

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cell remain purple

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Gram stain step (alcohol)
gram-positive cells remain purple, and gram-negative cells become colorless
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Gram stain step (safranin)
Gram-positive remains purple, and gram-negative cells appear red
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type of staining when the background is stained but not the cells
Negative staining
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Acid-fast organism have lipids constructed of _____ acid in their cell wall
Mycolic
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What is the network usually made of polysaccharides, that surrounds many bacteria and some fungi?
Capsule
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Mycobacterium tubercolosis requires what type of staining?
Acid fast staining
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visualization of the capsule on a bacterial cell requires a differential stain because _____
stains and dyes dont bind to polysaccharide around the capsule
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Capsules around the bacteria are usually composed of_____?
polysaccharides
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Acid-fast organism have lipids constructed of ______ acid inter cell wall
Mycolic acid
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What are long slender structures of locomotion found on some bacteria?
some bacteria have FLAGELLA to move around
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What type (transmission or scanning) of microscope works by radiation passing through a specimen
Transmission
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Scanning electron microscope works by_______?
producing image from electrons released around object's image