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Antoni van Leewenhoek ️Invented microscopes, described organisms found
Louis Pasteur ️Swan neck flask, disproved spontaneous generation, showed microbes helped
fermentation, sugar to alcohol, sugar to acids
Spontaneous Generation ️Belief that living thin...
Antoni van Leewenhoek ✔️Invented microscopes, described organisms found
Louis Pasteur ✔️Swan neck flask, disproved spontaneous generation, showed microbes helped
fermentation, sugar to alcohol, sugar to acids
Spontaneous Generation ✔️Belief that living things can arise from nonliving matter
Microbiology ✔️Study of organisms too small to be seen by the unaided eye
Germ Theory of Disease ✔️Louis Pasteur discovered microbes caused disease
Pathogen ✔️A specific germ that causes disease
Robert Koch ✔️Belief that a specific microbe causes a specific disease
Koch's postulates ✔️Experimental steps used to prove his theory
Ignaz Semmelweis ✔️Handwashing
Joseph Lister ✔️Antiseptic techniques and disinfecting
Florence Nightingale ✔️Nursing, antisepsis, aseptic technique (no contaminating)
John Snow ✔️Infection control, epidemiologist
, Edward Jenner ✔️Developed vaccinations
Genomics ✔️Study of an organism's genes
Beadle and Tatum ✔️Believed enzymes (proteins) are encoded in genes
Avery, MacLeod, McCarty ✔️Believed DNA is hereditary material, not protein
Jacob and Monod ✔️Discovered role of mRNA in protein synthesis
Genome sequencing ✔️Study of order of genes in a genome
Carol Woese ✔️Discovered three cell groups instead of two: Bacteria, Eukaryotes, Prokaryotes
Paul Ehrlich ✔️Magic Bullets
Alexander Fleming ✔️Discovered first antibiotic from observing the mold Penicillum killed
Staphylococcus
Ivanowsky ✔️Suggested a plant infection might be caused by a filterable toxin produced by bacteria
Beijernick ✔️Convinced that the filtered solution contained a new form of infectious agent, which he
named virus meaning poison
Genetic Engineering ✔️Manipulate genes in microbes, plants, and animals for practical application
Recombinant DNA technology ✔️Studied by Paul Berg from two or more sources is incoprorated into a
single recombinant molecule
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