GCU bio-205 Quiz 1
biogenesis life comes from life
Antony van Leeuwenhoek first person to observe and describe microorganisms (called them
animalcules)
Theory of Spontaneous Generation Life arises spontaneously from non-living material
Francesco Redi Demonstrated worms on rotting meat cam...
Antony van Leeuwenhoek ✅first person to observe and describe microorganisms (called them
animalcules)
Theory of Spontaneous Generation ✅Life arises spontaneously from non-living material
Francesco Redi ✅Demonstrated worms on rotting meat came from eggs of flies landing on meat:
disproving the Theory of Spontaneous Generation
Louis Pasteur ✅Father of modern microbiology / demonstrated air is filled with microorganisms by
using swan-necked flask
John Tyndall ✅realized hay infusions contained heat-resistant microbes
Endospores ✅Heat-resistant bacteria / discovered by Ferdinand Cohn
Golden Age of Microbiology ✅most organisms are not harmful, some are pathogens
Germ Theory of Disease ✅the principle that microorganisms cause disease
Domain Bacteria ✅-prokaryotes
-do not have a nucleus
-no membrane bound organelles
-cell wall contains Peptidoglycan
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