MICRO BIO Ch 1

Genetic Engineering- GM (GMO); recombinant DNA production of insulin etc.

Animal and plant disease

Microorganisms that cause disease are called

A way of establishing the causative agent of a disease

Use of microorganism to clean up enviornmental accident such as oil spills, toxic waste, heave mental contamination

The study of the immune system

A repeatidly true hypothesis

All experiments must have a ___ to be valid

___ and ____ now play the BIGGEST role in classification

Living on or in other organisms

Pasteurization; Germ Theory of Disease; Sterlie

Food, dairy, andd aquatic microbiology stuides food spolage, food borne illness and water safety

What the data shows- whether hypothesis was right or wrong

Prokaryotic Microorganisms

Natural relatedness between groups of living organism

Educated idea about why something occurs

Viruses- _________ - no tmade of cells, non living

Specific, repeatable series of steps to test validity or hypothesis

The study of disease in population

Odd prokaryotic microorgansism that live in extreme enviornments; often called extremophiles

_____ Production of food, drugs, vaccines

Protist, fungi, plants, animals

Microbiology is the area of biology that deals with

______ True Nucleus- single or mutli cellular- not as old. membrane bound nucleus w/ specefic organelles; more complex

_______ and ________ combine DNA to form two or more different species

First level of classification is the domain- There are ___ domains

Complete absence of all life forms, including endospores and bacteria

Evolution is supported by SATA

Organizing, classifying and naming organsims

_____ -pre nucleus-single cell organism such as bacteria. Really old. Have no memebrane bound nucleus or organelles

More ppl alive today with compromised immunse system- HIV AIDS Transplant pt, chemo, autoimmune disease

Photosynthetic mircro org. account for more than __ % of photosynthesis on earth

The use of the metabolism of living things to obtain a desired product; break making, insulin etc..

____- linene merchant; first microscope; magnified 300X; looked at org. in pond water, sraped off teeth

Free living cell are found in _____ and ______ enviornments

Theories progress and develop a level of confidence which allows them be then be considred a law

Breaking down dead material, bacteria and fungi are mostly responsible for this

Objective results of experiment

General approach taken to explain something; 4 steps

Idea that specific org. were responsible for disease, rather than poverty, social class

Developed the binomial systen of nomenclature

Linked specific microorgansims with a specific disease

Gastric Ulcers (heliobacter phylori) do not have an infectious cause

MB includes study of bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, algae and helminths

Most microbes are

_____ is the unifying concept in biology

Aseptic Technique- Using handwashing and cleaning surfaces so as to not introduce microorganisms into enviornment