MICR 803 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, Death Eater
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Eukarya: protists: one celled organisms with a nucleus. Prokaryotes: archaea: single celled organisms with a nucleus. Microbes are ubiquitous: found everywhere, hippos eating anthrax. Microflora: keep bad pathogens away (the normal flora in the human body) Changed history: soldiers died from infections, the black death. Robert hooke: able to magnify images 30x their size, observed cells from cork. Antoine van leeuwenhoek: began grinding own lens, created 275x magnification, first to observe single cell microbes and animacules. Francesco closed off jar and maggots didn"t appear, no air essential for life. Louis pasteur: vaccine development, attenuation: using bacterium as a. Protists are single celled eukaryo archae are single celled eukarya. Louis pasteur: vaccine development, attenuation: using bacterium as a vaccine. Joseph lister: developed use of aseptic agents in surgery. Robert koch: identified pathogens of disease causing the organism. Kochs postulates: causative link between an infectious agent and a disease. Same microbe is reisolated from now sick individual.