Prelims

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  • Microbiology is the study of? microorganisms
  • Micro means?

    small
  • Bio means?

    Life
  • Logos means?

    Study
  • Microorganisms are also known as Microbes
  • These are living things that are too small to be see with the naked eye?
    Microorganisms or Microbes
  • During the time of the ancient greeks, they attributed diseases to what?
    bad air or miasmatic odors
  • He is the father of Western Medicine?
    Hippocrates
  • He believed that diseases had natural, not supernatural causes?
    Hippocrates
  • He is considered the father of scientific history?
    Thucydides
  • He advocated for the evidence based analysis of the cause-and-effect reasoning?
    Thucydides
  • started the early understanding of immunity?
    Thucydides
  • He is a roman writer who proposed the concept that things we cannot see can cause diseases?
    Marcus Terentius Varro
  • He is known for "Res Rusticae"?
    Marcus Terentius Varro
  • The discovery era of microbiology was?
    1500-1717
  • He is the father of microbiology?
    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
  • Leeuwonhoek described microbes as?
    Little Animalcules
  • He is responsible for the first sketch of bacteria?
    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
  • He developed the first practical compound microscope?
    Robert Hooke
  • He started the cell theory?
    Robert Hooke
  • He coined the term "cell"?
    Robert Hooke
  • The transitional period for microbiology was?
    1718-1859
  • He is the father of microscopy?
    Louis Joblot
  • Louis Joblot discovered the contractile vacuole
  • The spontaneous generation theory is also known as the?

    Abiogenesis
  • Abiogenesis is a theory which proposes that life came from non-living things
  • He supported the Spontaneous Generation Theory?

    John Needham
  • He opposed Abiogenesis and John Needham?
    Lazaro Spallanzani
  • He theorized that maggots do not come from decaying meat & opposed abiogenesis?
    Francisco Redi
  • This theory proposes that living things are from pre-existing living things?
    Theory of Biogenesis
  • The discovery era was from?
    1500-1717
  • the transitional period was from?
    1718-1859
  • The golden era of microbiology were in?
    1860-1914
  • He is known for the process of pasteurization?
    Louis Pasteur
  • He developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and rabies?
    Louis Pasteur\
  • He is the father of immunology?
    Edward Jenner
  • He created a vaccine against smallpox?
    Edward Jenner
  • He is the father of food science?
    Nicolas appert
  • He is the father of canned goods?
    Nicolas Appert
  • He introduced the system of heating to preserve food?
    Nicolas Appert