BIOL 1011 : Exam 1 Learning Objectives
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Identifying the significant contributions made by hooke and leeuwenhoek that foreshadowed the begins of microbiology. Robert hooke: first person to describe and draw microorganism (first observation of a microorganism, observational drawings 25x of cells and common bread mold. Antoni van leeuwenhoek: first to see bacteria, became interested in microscopes, became skilled in grinding single piece glass lens microscopes - Discuss spontaneous generation and compare the experiments that led to its down fall. Spontaneous generation: hypothesized decay of complex organisms results in their molecules reorganizing into animalcules. Assess the importance of the work carried out by semmelweis and by snow that went against the miasma idea and established the field of epidemiology. Epidemiology is scientific study from which the source, cause and mode of transmission of a disease can be identified: ignaz semmelweis, determined the source of blood poisoning of women in childbirth.
