Background of Microbiology / History of Microbiology

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What is microbiology

The study of small life

What makes up small life

Microorganisms/Microbes

What are types of microbes

Algae, Bacteria, Fungi, Viruses, Protozoa, Helminths

Are all microbes harmful

No

What are normal flora

The collection of microbes that live in your body without causing harm

What is Bacteriology

Study of Bacteria

What. Is Virology

Study of viruses

What is Mycology

Study of Fungi

What is Parasitology

Study of parasites

What is Helminthology

Study of Helminths/parasitic worms

What is chemotherapy

Using chemical substances to treat infectious diseases

Who developed the compound microscope

Robert Hooke

Who was the first person to observe cells

Robert Hooke

Who first viewed bacteria (from teeth scrapings)

Anton Van Leeuwenhook

Who contributed evidence to biogenesis and first said life comes from living matter

Francesco Redi

What is Abiogenesis (wrong)

Life comes from non living matter (not true)

Who disproved spontaneous generation/Abiogenesis

Louis Pasteur

Who created Aseptic techniques

Louis Pasteur

Who created the first rabies vaccine

Louis Pasteur

Who created fermentation

Louis Pasteur

Who created Pasteurization

Louis Pasteur

Who created germ theory

Louis Pasteur

What is pasteurization

mildly heating things up to kill microbes that spoil things

Who proved microbes cause surgical wound infections

Joseph Lister

Who first used phenol for surgery

Joseph Lister

Who discovered Etiology of disease (cause of disease)

Robert Koch

Who created the first vaccine

Edward Jenner

Who discovered Phagocytosis (cell eating other cells)

Ellie Metchnikoff

Who created the cellular theor of immunity

Elie Metchnikoff

Who created the gram stain

Hans Christian Gram

Who created the Petri Dish

Richard Petri

Who created the Magic bullet

Paul Ehrlich

Who discovered viruses

Dimitri Iwanowski

Who discovered Penicillin and realized it could kill bacteria

Alexander Fleming

Who coined the word Antibiotic

Selman waksman

Who first grouped Streptococcus

Rebecca Lancefield