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Classification of organisms - Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species Phylogenetic trees - a branching diagram that represents a hypothesis about the evolutionary history of a group of organisms Types of microbes - bacteria, archeae, fungi, molds, yeasts, protozoa, alga...

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Classification of organisms - ✔✔ Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,
Genus, Species


Phylogenetic trees - ✔✔ a branching diagram that represents a hypothesis about
the evolutionary history of a group of organisms


Types of microbes - ✔✔ bacteria, archeae, fungi, molds, yeasts, protozoa, algae,
viruses, multicellular animal parasites


rRNA - ✔✔ The RNA component of the ribosome, and is essential for protein
synthesis in all living organisms.


Theory of RNA as the original hereditary material. - ✔✔ original molecule must
have fulfilled protein and hereditary function. Earliest cells may have been RNA
surrounded by liposomes.


Endosymbiosis - ✔✔ A process in which a unicellular organism (the "host")
engulfs another cell, which lives within the host cell and ultimately becomes an
organelle in the host cell; also refers to the hypothesis that mitochondria and
plastids were formerly small prokaryotes that began living within larger cells.


Horizontal gene transfer - ✔✔ A process in which an organism incorporates
genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that
organism.

, Spontaneous generation - ✔✔ A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which
living organisms are created from nonliving matter.


Van Leeuwenhoek - ✔✔ First person to observe and describe microorganisms
accurately.


John Needham - ✔✔ Heated broth in sealed flasks.When the broth became
cloudy with microrganisms, he mistakenly concluded that they developed
spontaneously from the broth.


Lazzaro Spallanzani - ✔✔ Boiled open and closed flasks of broth to disprove
spontaneous generation.


Louis Pasteur - ✔✔ A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill
bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer.


Joseph Lister - ✔✔ A surgeon who used carbolic acid to control wound infection.


Edward Jenner - ✔✔ Used a vaccination procedure to protect individuals from
smallpox.


Koch's Postulate - ✔✔ 1) Pathogen must be present in all disease cases 2) Isolate
pathogen, cultivate in pure culture 3) Inoculate into susceptible animal, initiate
disease symptoms 4) Re-isolate pathogen, confirm it's the same pathogen


Fields in microbiology - ✔✔ Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, Parasitology,
Entomolgy, Microbial metabolism, Microbial genetics, Microbial ecology,
Microbial pathogenesis, Immunology, Epidermiology, Antimicrobial drugs,
Genetic engineering.

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