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Lucretius (98-
BCE)
Believed disease is caused by invisible living creatures
TERM 2
Who came up with Spontaneous Generation?
DEFINITION 2
Aristotle
TERM 3
De Novo
DEFINITION 3
From Scratch
TERM 4
Microscopes and Observations -Robert Hook-
DEFINITION 4
Published the first drawing of microorganisms in
"Micrographia" (1665). Also gave description of how to make
microscopes.
TERM 5
Antoin Van Leeuenhoek
DEFINITION 5
FATHER OF MICROBIOLOGY!! -drew and described bacteria
and protozoa -Called them "wee animalcules" -Reported to
Royal Society of London (1673)
Was the development of microbiology slow or
fast?
-Slow development -no concept of importance -microscopes
were crude and few
TERM 7
When did Microbiology really start to
develop?
DEFINITION 7
The 19th century -There were better microscopes and
improved staining techniques
TERM 8
What two questions is microbiology applicable
to?
DEFINITION 8
-Is there spontaneous generation? -What is the nature of
contagious diseases?
TERM 9
What is Spontaneous Generation #1?
DEFINITION 9
Can living organisms develop from nonliving material
TERM 10
Of the following, which believed living
organisms could develop from nonliving
material? : Aristotle, Van Helmont, Francisco
Redi
DEFINITION 10
Aristotle (believed invertebrates could And Van Helmont
(believed mice could from wheat)
Spontaneous Generation #3 -What did
Pasteur do?-
He refuted spontaneous generation in 1861 -He used an
infusion, initially used cotton plug, then swan necked flask
TERM 17
Spontaneous Generation #4 -What was the
result of Pasteur's Work?-
DEFINITION 17
He discovered sterilization, which is critical for the
development of microbiology, canning/ preservation of food,
and cotton stoppers used in microbiolgy
TERM 18
What is the definition of sterilization?
DEFINITION 18
Killing of ALL organisms in or on an object
TERM 19
What did Robert Koch find in Bacillus
Anthracis?
DEFINITION 19
Spore like bodies
TERM 20
What two things did John Tyndall
discover?
DEFINITION 20
That there are Heat-Resistant Life forms present and that
dust DOES carry microbes
What are heat-resistant forms of bacteria
called and who named it?
Endospores; Ferdinand Cohn
TERM 22
The Nature of Contagious Diseases #1 -What
did Galen believe?-
DEFINITION 22
An imbalance between four humours caused diseased
TERM 23
What are the four humours?
DEFINITION 23
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile
TERM 24
Of the following, who bleived invisible
organisms (germs) caused diseases?
:Agostino Bassi de Lodi, M.J. Berkely,
Girolamo Fracastoro, or Louis Pasteur?
DEFINITION 24
Girolamo Fracastoro
TERM 25
Who believed silkworm disease was caused
by fungus?
DEFINITION 25
Agostino Bassi de Lodi
Who revised "Germ Theory" of disease and
also discovered isomeres?
Louis Pasteur
TERM 32
What is an isomere?
DEFINITION 32
a mirror image
TERM 33
Who developed a vaccine for rabies?
DEFINITION 33
Louis Pasteur
TERM 34
-Jacob Henle and Robert Koch- -Which
established Criteria to relate anthrax to
Bacillus anthracis?
DEFINITION 34
Henle
TERM 35
-Jacob Henle and Robert Koch- Which used
postulates in etiology of tuberculosis?
DEFINITION 35
Koch
What is Etiology?
the study of causation or origination
