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What is the definition of Microbiology?
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The study of very small organisms
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What is another name for Microorganisms?
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Microbes
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What do you call a group of Microbes?
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Colonial Microbes
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What life processes are microorganisms generally able to carry out independently of other cells?
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Growth, Reproduction and Energy generation
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What are the major reasons to study microbiology?
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Provides research tools used in many different disciplines and microbes play an important role in Medicine, Agriculture and Industry
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What are the major groups of Microbes?
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Bacteria, Archea, Fungi, Protozoa, Algae, Viruses and Worms.
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Bacteriology is the study of?
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Bacteria
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Characteristics of Bacteria
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Prokaryotic-do not have nucleus. Best studied group of microbes.
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Examples of diseases caused by Bacteria
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Diptheria, Tuberculosis, bubonic plague and E Coli
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What is the definition of a plague?
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Any disease that spreads quickly
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Characteristics of Archea
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Ancient organisms, Prokaryotic, extremonphiles and do not cause disease
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Mycology is the study of?
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Fungi
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Charcteristics of Fungi
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Eukaryotes yeasts and molds
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Examples of Fungi
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Ringworm and skin and nail infections
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Protozoology is the study of?
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Protozoa
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Characteristics of Protozoa
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Primitive animal critters Eukaryotes
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Examples of Protozoa diseases
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Amoebic dysentary and Malaria
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Phycology is the study of?
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Algae
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Characteristics of Algae
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Eukaryotes, Photosynthetic, important food source for other organisms. Not medically important
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Virology is the study of?
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Viruses
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Characteristics of Viruses
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Acellular-composed of nucleic acid with protein coating. Obligate Intracellular parasites-must live inside other organisms
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Examples of Viruses
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Aids, Colds, Flu Chicken Pox Polio
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Other Microbes?
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Worms, Arthropods
examples Intestinal pathogens and trichinosis |
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Classifications of Microorganisms
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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
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What was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek known for?
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First to see small microbes and developed the first microscope
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What was Louis Pasteur known for?
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Disproved theory of spontaneous generation, Pasteuration and Fermintation. Father of Microbiology
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What is Alexandar Fleming known for?
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Discovered Penicillin
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What is Frederick Griffith known for?
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Transformation in Bacteria. During the course of his experiment, a living organism (bacteria) had changed in physical form.
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What is Watson and Crick known for?
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Identified the physical structure of DNA
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Whats is Jacob and Monod known for?
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Described how protein synthesis is regulated in bacteria.
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What are the Koch postulates?
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1 Organism is constantly present in diseased animals. 2 Organism is cultivated in pure culture. 3 Cultivated organisms are inoculated into health animals, who become sick. 4 Organism is then isolated from this animal and shown to be the orginal organism
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What is Robert Koch known for?
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Koch's postulates 4 ideas for proving a particular microorganism causes a particular disease. laid the groundwork for the "Germ theory of Disease"
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What is a Pure Culture?
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Only one type of microorganism present. Solid media allows isolation of single colonies. Each colony comes from a single bacteria cell. Mass must be large enough to be seen by naked eye.
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What is chemotherapy?
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Chemical treatment of disease
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What is an EID?
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Emerging infectious disease a new or changing desease showing and increasein incidence in the recent past or a potential to increase in the near future.
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