Introduction to Microbiology

Who is the Father of Modern Day Microbiology?

• Leeuwenhoek

• Tyndall

• Pasteur

• Iwanowski

What was the first vaccine for and who discovered it?

Claimed that there are inanimate fomites in the air which causes disease

• Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek

• Hieronymous Fracastorius

• Alexander Fleming

• John Needham

Agents and organisms that are too small to be seen with the unaided eye

• Bacteria

• Microorganisms

• Fungi

• Virus

The microscope used to see a bigger and more detailed organism

• Electron Microscope (EM)

• Fluorescence Microscope

• Compound Microscope

• Phase-contrast Microscope

Remedies any pathologic situation insinuated by microbiology

• Pathology

• Chemistry

• Medical Microbiology

• Pharmacology

Author of Theory of Biogenesis

• John Needham

• Spallanzani

• John Tyndall

• Joseph Lister

What theory did John Needham propose?

• Pre-existing Living Theory

• Abiogenesis Theory

• Spontaneous generation Theory

• Theory of Biogenesis

Prevented cross-contamination

• Asepsis/Antisepsis

• Septic

• Antibiotics

• Biocide

Mounted two lenses in a tube to produce the first compound microscope.

• Robert Hooke

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

• Hans and Zacharias Janssen

• Ernst Ruska