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hat is the role of microbes in maintain temperature on earth? (Role of microbes in CO2 and CH4
recycling) - ANSWER - CO2 and CH4 are greenhouses gases that are produced by microbes (organic
carbon into CO2 and CH4 and vice versa)

-> microbes control the temperature

-> these gases trap infared light, and warm up the planet.



List the top three causes of death in the US. - ANSWER - 1. Heart Diseases

2. Cancer

3. Stroke



How has the role of microbes changed over the last 100 years? - ANSWER - 100 years ago, the main
cause of death in the US was infectious diseases (pneumonia, terbuculosis, etc.)



Main increases in public health:

1) water purification and sewer treatment (Clean Water Act)

2) vaccines

3) discovery of antibiotics (Alexandar Flemming)



List the major contributions to the science of microbiology - theories - ANSWER - Prior, people believed
in spontaneous generation.

-> life arises from non-living



Counter to that, germ theory of disease came about

- diseases come from germs, and those germs come from other living things (such as other germs)

, List the major contributions to the science of microbiology - Louis Pasteur - ANSWER - 1) Swan-neck flask
experiment

- put food in flask, heated flask.

- flask design made air not travel through



Microbes within the air actually entered the food and contaminated it.

- he thus disproved *spontaneous generation*



2) Pastuerization

- heating things up to 60-70 degrees C killed pathogens/germs,



List the major contributions to the science of microbiology - Antony van Leeuwenhock - ANSWER -
Invented the microscope - saw microorganisms on cloth through lens.



List the major contributions to the science of microbiology - Edward Jenner - ANSWER - He
discovered/produced the smallpox vaccine.



List the major contributions to the science of microbiology - Ignaz Semmelweis - ANSWER - Hospital
working dealing with babies

- at time, they were dying of a disease called puerperal sepsis, a kind of streptococcal infection

- telling doctors that hands were contaminated (wash your hands)



List the major contributions to the science of microbiology - Robert Koch - ANSWER - Connected
DISEASES to MICROBES

- Koch's postulates (set of criteria) ->

*one microbe causes one disease*



Established etiology - the cause of disease



- epidemiology

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