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Chapter 1 study guide Microbiology
Microbiology - correct answer ✔A specialized area of biology that deal with
living things ordinarily too small to be seen without magnification, including
bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses, and algae.


Microorganism - correct answer ✔A living thing ordinarily too small to be
seen without magnification; an organism of microscopic size


There are several areas of basic and applied microbiology - correct answer
✔Immunology
Biotechnology
Public health microbiology and epidemiology
Genetic Engineering and recombinant DNA
Food, dairy and aquatic microbiology
Industrial microbiology


bioremediation - correct answer ✔The use of microbes to reduce or degrade
pollutants, industrial wastes, and household garbage.


(EX) Agencies and companies have developed microbes to handle oil spills
and detoxify sites contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, and even
radioactive wastes.


pathogen - correct answer ✔Any agent usually a virus, bacterium, fungus,
protozoan, or helminth that causes death. Nearly 2,000 microbes are
pathogen that cause disease.

, Emerging disease - correct answer ✔Newly identified diseases that are
becoming more prominent.


(Ex) since 1969, at least 26 novel infectious agents have arisen within the
human population. HIV,H1N1 and Ebola, Zoonoses diseases spread to
human from animals like West Nile fever from mosquitos


Reemerging Disease - correct answer ✔Previously identified disease that is
increasing in occurrence.


(Ex) Diseases like Tuberculosis that kills 1 million to 2 million people every
year. Also Malaria, Hepatitis B.


Taxonomy - correct answer ✔The formal system for organizing, classifying,
and naming living things. Hierarchical scheme for the classification,
identification and nomenclature of organisms which are grouped in categories
called taxa.


Identify the major organisms included in the science of microbiology - correct
answer ✔1. Bacteria
2. Archaea
3. Fungi
4.Protozoa
5. Algae


Name and define the specialized disciplines in microbiology - correct answer
✔1. Geomicrobiologists-focus on the role of microbes in the development of
earth's crust
2.Marine microbiologists- study the ocean and its smallest inhabitants.

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