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Overview of Microbiology Questions with complete solution Microbes - correct answer Include bacteria, algae, protozoa, fungi, archaea, and virsues What type of cell walls do bacteria have? - correct answer Peptidoglycan cell walls What type of cell walls do fungi have? - correct answer ...

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Overview of Microbiology
Microbes - correct answer ✔Include bacteria, algae, protozoa, fungi,
archaea, and virsues


What type of cell walls do bacteria have? - correct answer ✔Peptidoglycan
cell walls


What type of cell walls do fungi have? - correct answer ✔Chitin (pronounced
kaitin) cell walls


What type of fungi are unicellular and what type of fungi are multicellular? -
correct answer ✔Yeasts are examples of unicellular fungi and molds and
mushrooms are types of multicellular fungi


Who observed the first microbes? - correct answer ✔Anton Van
Leeuwenhoek, animalcules, 1623 - 1627.


Who marked the beginning of cell theory? - correct answer ✔Robert Hooke,
observed cells in a wine cork, 1665


What is cell theory? - correct answer ✔All living things are composed of cells


What is biogenesis? - correct answer ✔The hypothesis that all living cells
arise only from pre-existing cells


Who is Rudolf Virchow? - correct answer ✔Said cells arise from preexisting
cells. Biogenesis. 1858. Disproved Spontaneous generation.

, Who is Louis Pasteur? - correct answer ✔Demonstrated that
microorganisms are present in the air. 1861. Conducted an experiment with
beef broth in flasks with an S curve. The experiment showed that broth which
was heated up did not become contaminated with microorganisms if it was not
exposed to air. Pasteurization


What is the golden age of microbiology? - correct answer ✔1857 - 1914,
started with Pasteur's work. Time period when discoveries between microbes,
disease, immunity, and antimicrobial drugs were made


What is fermentation? - correct answer ✔The conversion of sugar to alcohol
in the absence of air


Who is Joseph Lister? - correct answer ✔1860s, used a chemical antiseptic
(phenol) to prevent surgical wounds.


Who is Robert Koch? - correct answer ✔Discovered a bacterium causes
anthrax. By doing an experiment with cows he developed Koch's postulates
that demonstrated specific microbes cause specific diseases.


Who is Edward Jenner? - correct answer ✔1796, came up with the idea of
vaccinations by doing an experiment with smallpox and cowpox viruses.


What are antibiotics? - correct answer ✔Chemicals produced by bacteria
and fungi that inhibit or kill other microbes.


Who is Paul Ehrlich? - correct answer ✔Speculated about a "magic bullet"
that could destroy a pathogen without harming the host. Developed the
synthetic arsenic drug, salvarsan, to treat syphilis. 1910

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