Back to marketplace

Midterm 1

No description yet. This curated deck is ready for daily study.

Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

Card preview (24)

#1
Front (Question)

This person expanded on spallanzani finding by exposing boiled broth to the air. This experiment confirmed that contamination of the broth was a result of exposure to the outside environment

Back (Answer)

Louis Pasteur

#2
Front (Question)

this person was able to confirm that microbes were the cause of disease

Back (Answer)

Robert Koch

#3
Front (Question)

This lead to the formation of the germ theory of disease

Back (Answer)

Koch’s postulates

#4
Front (Question)

Microorganisms that are more or less permanent residents of our body for the duration of our lifetime

Back (Answer)

Resident Microbiota

#5
Front (Question)

Microorgansims that are “passengers” or temporarily on other individuals

Back (Answer)

transient microbiota

#6
Front (Question)

This person discovered the cause and prevention of puerperal fever and the concept of hand washing with antiseptic

Back (Answer)

Ignaz Semmelweis

#7
Front (Question)

Who validated the germ theory of disease

Back (Answer)

Robert Koch

#8
Front (Question)

The father of aseptic surgery

Back (Answer)

Joseph Lister

#9
Front (Question)

Microorganisms are the cause of many diseases

Back (Answer)

Germ Theory of Disease

#10
Front (Question)

this is a discredited scientific theory stating that living organisms could arise directly from non-living matter.

Back (Answer)

Spontaneous generation

#11
Front (Question)

This consist of only one species of microorganisms

Back (Answer)

pure cultures

#12
Front (Question)

this consist of millions of cells that originated from a single cell

Back (Answer)

colony

#13
Front (Question)

the use of aseptic technique to transfer microorganism from one medium to the next

Back (Answer)

subculturing

#14
Front (Question)

Inoculation Incubation Isolation Inspection Identification

Back (Answer)

The 5 I’s

#15
Front (Question)

The transfer of bacterium or sample to a medium

Back (Answer)

inoculation

#16
Front (Question)

inoculated media gets moved into a temperature-controlled location to allow growth to occur

Back (Answer)

incubation

#17
Front (Question)

methods that allow for isolation of spaced-out growth and ability to grow a specific bacterium

Back (Answer)

isolation

#18
Front (Question)

This is part of the experiment that is intentionally changed

Back (Answer)

independent variable

#19
Front (Question)

part of the experiment that will change as a result of the changes made to the IV

Back (Answer)

dependent variable

#20
Front (Question)

practice designed to prevent the spread of harmful microorganisms and contamination by creating a sterile barrier

Back (Answer)

aseptic technique

#21
Front (Question)

This part of the microscope is a fixed plateform for holding the specimen

Back (Answer)

Stage

#22
Front (Question)

This structure of the microscope houses and connected two lenses that make up the basic compound light microscope

Back (Answer)

Body tube

#23
Front (Question)

The top part of the tube contains the _______ _____

Back (Answer)

Ocular lenses

#24
Front (Question)

The bottom part of the tube contains a nosepiece that has ______ _____ of various magnifications attached to it

Back (Answer)

Objective lenses