UTA Microbiology Exam 1 (Ch 1, 2, 3, 7)
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Miasma Theory - ANSWER✔✔ Theory that bad air caused illness.
Leprosy in the Bible - ANSWER✔✔ practice of quarantining people with leprosy
suggesting that people understood that dz's could be communicable.
Leprosy is communicable, it is also a dz that progresses slowly meaning that
people were likely quarantined after they had already spread the dz to others.
Roman Sewage System - ANSWER✔✔ Built aqueducts which brought fresh water
into the city, and a giant sewer "Cloaca Maxima" which carried waste away into
the river Tiber.
Researchers believe that this infrastructure helped protect Romans from
epidemics of waterborne illnesses.
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) - ANSWER✔✔ "FATHER OF WESTERN MEDICINE"
Dz is not caused by the supernatural.
Hippocratic Corpus & Oath (To be a healer #1 job is to take care of that patient
w/o harming them)
Thucydides (460-395 BC) - ANSWER✔✔ FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY (To keep
records of), advocated for evidence-based analysis of cause and effect reasoning,
studied Athenian plague and discovered immunity
,Immunity: People who sick and didn't die did not get sick again.
Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) - ANSWER✔✔ Proposed that disease could
be caused by "certain minute animals/creatures... which cannot be seen by the
eye."
*He was roman*
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - ANSWER✔✔ "FATHER OF
MICROBIOLOGY"
Dutch cloth merchant, was the first to develop a lens powerful enough to view
microbes. Observed single-celled organisms "animalcules" from rain water.
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) - ANSWER✔✔ Fermentation, pasteurization (to be able
to last longer), and spoilage by microbes.
Vaccines e.g. Rabies
Robert Koch (1843-1910) - ANSWER✔✔ Established method for connecting
pathogen with specific dz; Koch's postulates.
helped discover: anthrax, cholera, tuberculosis
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) *Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔ Developed a new way to
categorize plants and animals. Systema Naturae, KPCOFGS
, Ernst Haekel (1834-1919) *Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔ Proposed four kingdoms
(Animals, Plants, PROTISTS, MONERA)
wrote General Morphology of Organisms proposing four kingdoms.
Robert Whittaker (1920-1980) *Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔ Proposed adding a fifth
kingdom (Fungi)
Carl Woese (1928-1912) & George Fox (1945-) *Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔
Molecular Techniques (rRNA) and three domains (Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya)
Microbial Classification - ANSWER✔✔ Difficulties in classifying microbes
Strains of species
- all same species but phenotypically a little different ex: E Coli pathogenic strain
0157:H7)
Bergey's Manuals
- Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
- Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
Binomial nomenclature
- 2 word system that names organisms based on genus and species ex: Homo
sapiens -> H. sapiens
Characteristics and Types of Microbes - ANSWER✔✔ Cellular v. Acellular
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