Microbiology UTA Nursing Review
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Microbiology - ANSWER✔✔ A specialized area of biology that deals with living
things ordinarily too small to be seen without magnification, including bacteria,
archaea, fungi, protozoa, and viruses.
microorganism - ANSWER✔✔ A living thing ordinarily too small to be seen
without magnification; an organism of microscopic size.
Joseph Lister - ANSWER✔✔ Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during
surgery
Robert Hooke - ANSWER✔✔ First observations of microbes in the 1600's, "cell,"
not alive
Adenovirus - ANSWER✔✔ are a group of viruses that can infect the membranes
(tissue linings) of the respiratory tract, eyes, intestines, urinary tract, and nervous
system. They account for about 10% of fever-related illnesses and acute
respiratory infections in kids and are a frequent cause of diarrhea.
Rickettsia - ANSWER✔✔ a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites
coccus - ANSWER✔✔ round shaped bacteria
, Amoeba - ANSWER✔✔ a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about
by extending finger like projections of protoplasm. The either free-living in damp
environments or parasitic.
Helminths - ANSWER✔✔ parasitic worms
binomial system - ANSWER✔✔ A combination of the genus and species name
The genus name is always capitalized and the species name begins with a lower
case letter.
Both names should be italicized when in print or underlined when written by
hand
Example: Staphylococcus aureus can be abbreviated S. aureus
Levels of classification - ANSWER✔✔ Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, Species
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER✔✔ Made a crude microscope to examine
threads in fabrics
Made drawings of what he called "animalcules" in rainwater and scraped from his
teeth
First live cells
The following parts was absent from leeuwenhoek's microscope - ANSWER✔✔
condenser
spontaneous generation - ANSWER✔✔ the supposed production of living
organisms from nonliving matter, as inferred from the apparent appearance of
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