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History of Spontaneous Generation
used to help memorize influential scientists that helped to disproove spontaneous generation
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
09/09/2013

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Term

Leeuwenhoek:

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1600's

B: simple microscope, little amaculues

or Father of microbiology

Term

Redi

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1600's

B: challenged theory of spontaneous generation

prooved maggots came from fly eggs

Term

Needham

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1700's

B: added chiocken broth to flask + boiled it

microbes grew claimed it was spontaneous generation

** used corked flasks that were porous and were exposed to microbes in the air

Term

Spallanzani

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1700's

B: Sealed flasks excluded oxygen and boiled them, prooved prolonged heating excluded appearance of microorganisms , also amount of heating required to prevent growth was highly variable

Term

Schwann

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1800's

B: Heated air, heated broth to sterilize and exposed to heated air to try and disproove spontaneous generation

Term

Liebig

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1800's

B: Law of minimun agricultural farming, was a leading contribitor to microbiology at the time

Term

Pasteur

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1800's

B: swan neck flasks

 

DISPROOVES SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

DISCOVERS PASTEURIZATION

Term

Tyndall

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

A: 1800's

B: discontinous heating (tyndallization)

endospores and heat resistance

basically discovered discontinous heating

 

Term

Koch

A) Year

B) Discovery

 

Definition

A: 1800's

B: discovered solid culture media

Gelatin, Agar colonies

Term

Germ Theory of Disease

1: Semmelweis

2: Lister

3: Koch

A) Year

B) Discovery

Definition

1 A:1800's

B:Childbed fever hand-washing with chlorinated lime

                  

2 A: 1800's

B: Surgical infection → disinfection of instruments with carbolic acid

3. A: 1800's

B: Koch's  anthrax: postulates

 

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