2024/2025 MICROBIOLOGY (A.BRADER) EXAM
1WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Who is the founding
Antoni Leeuwenhoek
father of
microbiolo- gy?
2. Who is the first per-
Francis Redi ( animals only come from other
son to attempt to
animals) He used jars containing meat to
dis- prove
spontaneous disprove the idea that maggots developed
generation theory? spontaneously from meat.
3. Who was John
Need- ham? He supported the concept of spontaneous
generation. After heating his flasks of broth,
microbes started growing in them. He believed
the microbes came from the broth itself.
4. Who was
Lazzaro He refuted the concept of spontaneous
Spallanzani? generation. He sealed his flasks of broth to
prove that microbes came from the air, not
the broth. * 1st person to disprove
spontaneous generation theory but DID NOT
get cred- it for it*
5. Who was Louis
Pas- teur? He *completely disproved* spontaneous
generation by using swan-necked flasks. *
Germ theory of dis- ease*
created rabies vaccine and chicken cholera
<-- 1st to create vaccine
6. What was Louis
Pas- teur's germ theory is that one organism causes a specific
theory of disease? disease.
7. Who was Robert
Koch?
He created FOUR postulates to link each
disease to a specific microbe. * Proved that
8. Who was microorganisms cause disease. *
Alexander
Fleming? He accidentally discovered the first
antibiotic: peni- cillin.
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9. Who was Joseph Lis- Sterile surgery, He successfully lowered the
number
ter? of deaths from surgical infections by using
phenol (carbolic acid) on his hands and surgical
instruments.
10.Who was Ignaz showed the importance of hand washing
Sem- melweis?
11.What is the percent 87% ( decompose , breakdown fiber, help with
of microbes that vitamin K)
are beneficial? 3% are pathogenic
12.The body contains 10
about times the
number of microor-
ganisims than the
number of cells in
the body
13.Virology is the Viruses
study of......
14.Mycoloy is the Fungi
study of.....
15.Parasitiolgy is protozo
the study of....
16.Phycology is a algae
the study of ....
17.Bacteriology is the bacteri
study of....
18.What are a TB
examples of Anthra
bacteria? x
Plague
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