MicroPara

• What is microbiology the study of?

  Living organisms too small to see
• What are the organisms collectively known as 'microbes'?

  Bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, prions, protozoa, algae
• What are the branches of microbiology by taxonomy?

  • Bacteriology
  • Virology
  • Parasitology
  • Mycology
  • Immunology
  • Nematology
  • Phycology
  • Protozoology
• What does bacteriology study?

  Study of bacteria
• Who began the study of bacteriology?

  Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
• What does virology study?

  Study of viruses
• Who is associated with the origin of virology?

  Dmitri Iwanoski
• What does parasitology involve?

  Study of unicellular and multicellular parasites
• Why are not all parasites considered microorganisms?

  Some parasites are multicellular organisms
• What does mycology study?

  Study of fungal microorganisms
• What does immunology study?

  Study of the immune system
• What does nematology study?

  Study of nematodes
• What does phycology study?

  Study of algae
• What does protozoology study?

  Study of protozoa
• What are the branches of applied microbiological research?

  • Agricultural microbiology
  • Food microbiology
  • Medical microbiology
  • Microbial biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical microbiology
• What does agricultural microbiology study?

  Microorganisms interacting with plants and soils
• What does food microbiology study?

  Microorganisms that spoil food
• How does food microbiology relate to food production?

  Studies microorganisms used in fermentation
• What does medical microbiology study?

  Microorganisms responsible for human disease
• What does microbial biotechnology involve?

  Using microbes in industrial products
• What does pharmaceutical microbiology study?

  Microorganisms used in pharmaceutical products
• How is microbiology relevant to nursing?

  • Controls infection in hospitals
  • Understands harmful and harmless microbes
  • Applies knowledge for drug production and diagnosis
  • Handles patients with communicable diseases
• Who is known as the Father of Microbiology?

  Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
• What did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek first observe?

  Various tiny living creatures
• What theory did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek support?

  Abiogenesis or spontaneous generation
• Who is known as the Father of Modern Parasitology?

  Francesco Redi
• What did Francesco Redi challenge?

  The theory of spontaneous generation
• What did John Needham do in his experiment?

  Boiled broth and sealed flasks
• What was John Needham's conclusion?

  New microbes arose spontaneously
• What did Lazzaro Spallanzani's results show?

  Sealed flasks remained clear
• What did Robert Hooke first use the word 'cell' to describe?


  A basic unit of organisms
• What did Jan Baptist van Helmont propose?

  Mice could arise from rags and wheat
• Who discovered the bacterium causing bubonic plague?

  Shibasaburo Kitasato
• What are the contributions of Louis Pasteur?

  • Principles of vaccination
  • Microbial fermentation
  • Pasteurization
  • Germ theory of disease
• What did Louis Pasteur discover about organisms in relation to oxygen?

  Aerobes require oxygen, anaerobes do not
• What did Robert Koch contribute to microbiology?

  Developed Koch's postulates
• What are Koch's postulates?

  Procedure to prove specific organisms cause diseases
• What are the steps of Koch's postulates?

  1. Microbe found in all disease cases
  2. Isolate microbe in pure culture
  3. Produce disease in healthy animals
  4. Recover microbe from infected animals
• What is taxonomy in microbiology?

  • Systematic classification of living organisms
  • Involves classification, nomenclature, and identification
• Who classified living things as plants and animals?

  Aristotle