MICROPARA
Subdecks (1)
Cards (47)
- Is the study of disease causing bacteria
- is the study of infectious viruses .
- is the study of disease causing fungi .
- is the study of parasites .
- is the study of disease causing protozoans .
- microbes that cause diseases.
- microbes that do not cause disease.
- microbes that do not usually cause diseases under ordinary conditions but have the potential to cause disease should the opportunity present itself.
- microbes that live on and in the human body.
- •Reported to the world that life’s smallest structural units were “little boxes” or “cells”.
- “Father of Microbiology”, “Father of Bacteriology”, “Father of Protozoology.
- He introduced the term “aerobes” (organisms that require oxygen) and “anaerobes” (organisms that do not require oxygen).
- Led to the establishment of Microbiology as a science.
- this idea described the possibility that microorganisms might have similar relationships with plants and animals , specifically that microorganisms might cause disease.
- 2 major categories of microbes: also called infectious particles
- 2 major categories of microbes: also called microorganisms
- this refers to the sum of all chemical reactions within a living organism.
- Refers to the chemical reactions that result in the breakdown of more complex organic molecules into simpler substances. (release energy)
- refers to chemical reactions in which simpler substances are combined to form complex molecules. (require energy)
- refers to the proteins, produced by living cells, that catalyze chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy.