BIOMI 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Myfanwy, Robert Hooke

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Test yourself using hw and practice tests (and learn it) Didn"t have the technology to see the organisms. Didn"t know microbes existed, but were still affected by them. Like what: contagious diseases, food spoilage/preservation, fermentation. Saw saws structures in cork and called them cells. Dutch dry goods (fabric) merchant, so he needed to examine the cloth closely. He sent letters to the royal society of london in dutch (they were translated into latin) Said that anything that moves is an animal, anything that doesn"t is a plant. There are molecules that rotated it one way or another. Realized that some crystals were mirror images of each other. Put peppercorns in water to examine them more closely. Started studying how organic compounds can rotate a beam of polarized light. Moved on to diseases of animals, started with silkworms and anthrax in sheep. Found things that were killed by presence of air.

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