BIOL 1011 : Important Ideas Test 1
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Redi- maggots on meat, not on covered meat. Pasteur- disproved spontaneous generation with the swan-neck flask experiment. Germ theory of disease fermentation by yeast produced alcohol. Microbes can grow without oxygen (anaerobic growth) Microorganisms in beer and wine could be killed by heat. Different microbes caused different types of fermentation. Developed vaccines for diseases such as rabies. Variolation - is a method of purposefully infecting a person with smallpox (variola) in a controlled manner so as to minimize the severity of the infection and also to induce immunity against further infection. [1] that a specific microorganism is present in all cases of the disease. [2] that the organism can be obtained in pure culture outside of the host. [3] that the organisms, when inoculated into a susceptible host, causes the same disease symptoms. [4] the organisms can be isolated in pure culture from the experimentally infected host.
