Microbiology Demystified
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1 CHAPTER 1 The World of the Microorganism Microbiologyis the study of microorganisms, which are tiny organisms that live around ...
the body by ingestion, skin contact, and inhalation. An endosporeis a bacterium in a dormant state that forms within a cell. For ...
Yersinia pestis nearly conquered Europe in the fourteenth century with the help of the flea. Yersinia pestisis the microorganism ...
What Is a Microorganism? Microorganisms are the subject of microbiology,which is the branch of science that studies microorganis ...
MYCOLOGY Mycologyis the study of fungi. A fungus is a eukaryoticorganism, often micro- scopic, that absorbs nutrients from its e ...
epithet, which is the name of the species, and is not capitalized. The genus and the epithet appear underlined or italicized. Th ...
Archaea: Prokaryotes that do not have peptidoglycan cell walls. Eucarya: Organisms from the following kingdoms: Kingdoms Prot ...
discovered that leukocytes (white blood cells) defended the body by engulfing and eating the invading microorganism. DRUGS: SEND ...
they move the pathogen using tears and saliva (to flush it) and mucus cilia in the respiratory track to physically move it. Urin ...
ANTONI VANLEEUWENHOEK Hooke’s experiments with a crude microscope inspired Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to further explore the micro w ...
the reproduction of another microorganism. Kill the microorganism and you won’t have new microorganisms, the theory went—you cou ...
The beef broth remained uncontaminated even after months of being exposed to the air. The very same flask containing the origina ...
people who simply inhaled the air around an infected animal were likely to inhale the anthrax bacterium spores and come down wit ...
healthy animal should then come down with the disease. Samples of a micro- organism taken from several infected animals are the ...
Vaccination The variola microorganism was one of the most feared villains in the late 1700s. The variola virus causes smallpox. ...
Killing the Microorganism Great strides were made during the late 1800s in the development of antiseptic techniques. It began wi ...
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