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- List several ways in which microbes affectour lives.
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-they have created the atmosphere, soil, and sediment
-necessary for digestion and absorption of nutrients into our bodies - fungi
- steal nutrients from surrounding organisms
- bacteria
- found mostly in large groups, some help, some hurt
- viruses
- obligate intracellular parasites
- algae
- not harmful, make oxygen
- protozoan
- 'first animals' plant and animal like
- importance of the disproval of abiogensis
- led to the germ theory of disease and koch's postulates
- fracastoro
- diseases spread through communicability
- van leewenhoek
- first to observe microorganisms
- redi
- meat and fly experiment that disproved abiogensis
- needham
- 2 flask experiment(open and corked)both were cloudy --abiogensis was proven
- spallanzani
- 3 flask experiment, disproved biogensis (but choking out the breath of God)
- pasteur
- bended flask experiment, disproved abiogensis, came out with the rabies vaccine
- koch
- kochs postulates
- semmelweis
- antisepsis(againist infection) washing hands between patients
- lister
- phenol, handwashing, asepsis (without infection)
- Jenner
- came out with first vaccine for smallpox
- Ehrlich
- discovered 'magic bullet' cured syphilis with the arsonic salvarsan
- fleming
- discovered penicillin
- The germ theory of disease
- microorganisms cause disease