BIO 1302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dental Plaque, Plant, Robert Hooke

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What is microbiology: microbiology is the study of microbes, microbes encompasses cellular living microorganisms. Prions (infectious proteins: some microorganisms are not microscopic, for example. Algae: at least 50% of the earth"s life is microbial, prokaryoti(cid:272) (cid:272)ells are earth"s earliest life for(cid:373, endosymbiotic theory. States that eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells: humans rely on microbes for any things. Microbes & diseases: majority of microbes do not cause disease, microbes that do because disease are called pathogens. Less than 1% of all microbes are likely to be pathogenic: opportunistic pathogens. Pathogens that will always cause disease in humans that have weakened immune systems. Golden age of microbiology: was sparked by innovations in microscopes, the careful documentations made by earlier scientists and new techniques to isolate and grow microbes. Was the first to publish descriptions of cells in 1600s. A contemporary of hooke, refined earlier versions of the microscope and became the first to see bacteria.

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