Unit 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY Flashcards
(33 cards)
They are not cells
Acellular
Animal parasites are
Eukaryotes
Two major groups if parasitic worms
Flatworms
Roundworms ( HELMINTHS)
Cell wall contain a protein carbohydrate complex clled
Peptidoglycan
Cell walls if present lack peptidoglycan
Archaea
Protist example
Slime molds, protozoa and algae
Unicellular yeast multicellular molds mushrooms
Fungi
Mosses ferns conifers flowering plants
Plants
Sponges worms insects vertebrates
Animals
Robert Hooke
Thin slide of cork through a Crude microscope
Little boxes /cells
Cell theory
Anton van leeuwenhoek
Live microorganisms “ animal cules”
400 microscopes
Spontaneous theory
Francesco redi
John needham
Lazzaro spallanzani
Biogenesis theory
Louis pasteur
Rudolf virchow
Pasteur Golden age
Fermentation (1857)
Disproved spontaneous generation (1861)
Pasteuration (1864)
Aseptic surgery
Lister -use of phenol ( carbolic acid)
Koch
1876- germ theory of diseases
1881- pure cultures
1882- mycobacterium tuberculosis
1883- vibrio cholera
Neisser
1879- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Nobel laureate
Koch
Metchnikoff ( phagocytosis)
Von bering (diphtheria antioxin)
Ehrlich (theory of immunity , syphilis treatment)
Rous (tumor causing virus)
Yeast- sugar- alcohol
Fermentation
Pasteurization
Heat the wine and beer
Life did not arises spontaneously from non living matter
Louis pasteur
Performed surgery under aseptic technique using phenol. Proved microbes caused surgical wound insfections
Joseph lister
Established experimental steps for directly linking a specific microbes to a specific disease
Robert koch
Used to prevent microbial contamination
Aseptic technique