Mibo 3500 exam 1 stuvia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

millimeter (mm) - Answer 10^-3 micrometer (um) - Answer 10^-6 nanometer - Answer 10^-9 Microbes - Answer Organisms and acellular agents too small to be seen by the unaided eye Robert Hooke - Answer made first compound microscope, coined the term "cell" Antoine van Leeuwenhoek - Answer built single-lens magnifier, first to observe single-felled microbes Francesco Redi - Answer meat and maggots research, disproved theory that microbes spontaneously generated Lazzaro Spallanz...

microbe - Answer a living organism that requires a microscope to be seen 2 types of microbial organisms - Answer prokaryotes [cell lacks nucleus] -archaea -bacteria eukaryotes [cell w/ nucleus] -algae/plants -fungi/animals -protists 3 domains of life - Answer Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya normal microbiota - Answer microbes normally present in and on the human body aid digestion prevent diseases by competing with pathogen microorganisms in environment - Answer recycling of n...

conversion from mm to micrometer to nanometer - Answer 1 mm = 1,000 micrometers 1 micrometer = 1,000 nanometers Robert Hooke () - Answer built first compound microscope observed mold, fleas, cork coined the term "cell" Antonie can Leeuwenhoek () - Answer -built magnifiers -first to observe single cell organisms...called them "small animals" theory of spontaneous generation - Answer - states that living organisms can arise from non-living matter Francesco Redi () - Answer ...

genus/species - Answer -Escherichia/Escherichia Coli -genus + epithet = species dutch merchant that used microscope to observe microbes, called them "animalcules" - Answer Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek periplasmic space - Answer space between inner and outer cellular membrane analysis of this allows all life to be organized into 3 domains - Answer 16S RNA as wavelength increases, resolving power - Answer decreases staining technique for TB - Answer acid-fast resolution - Answer m...