Historical Perspective in Microbiology
| Description: GATE: Life Science: Microbiology: Historical Perspective | |
| Number of Questions: 20 | |
| Created by: Vinaya Modi | |
| Tags: historical perspective microbiology Biology Quadratic Equations and Inequalities Mathematics Common Roots Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations Transformations Argand Plane and Polar Representation |
Pure culture of bacteria was first obtained by ________.
Directions: Laboratory procedures have been developed that make it possible to isolate microorganisms representing each species and to grow each of the species separately.
Who postulated that disease is produced by invisible living creatures?
The principle of immunization was demonstrated by whom?
Who wrote “The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever in 1842”?
Who suggested that the animals might have originated spontaneously from the soil, plants or other dissimilar animals?
Who introduced complement-fixation test for syphilis?
What is an “antitoxin”?
Directions: Emil von Behring and Kitasato devised a method of producing immunity to infections caused by organisms by injecting their toxins into animals so that an antitoxin would develop.
Identify the person from the following options, who believed that animals might originate spontaneously from the soil, plants or other unlike animals:
Which of the following devices and procedures disproved the theory of spontaneous generation?
What is “plant pathology“?
Directions: Late in the 19th century, T.J. Burrill, working in Illinois, discovered the fire blight disease in pear caused by a bacterium. This opened a new area of microbiology called “ plant pathology”.
Who was the first person to recognize the role of phagocytes in combating bacterial infections?
What is a “toxin”?
Transmission of viral diseases of plants by insects was suggested by _________.
Directions: Late in the 19th century, T.J. Burrill, working in Illinois, discovered the fire blight disease in pear caused by a bacterium. This opened a new area of microbiology called “ plant pathology”.
Match the following:
| Disease | Discoverer |
| A. Tuberculosis | (i) Koch |
| B. Tetanus | (ii) Bordet and Gengou |
| C. Dysentery | (iii) Nicolaier |
| D. Whooping cough | (iv) Shiga |
What is germ theory?
Who discovered diphtheria?
Pasteurization of milk is done by __________.
The growth of a mass of cells of the same species in a test tube is called _________.
Directions: Laboratory procedures have been developed that make it possible to isolate microorganisms representing each species and to grow each of the species separately.
Which branch of biology is referred here in the above statement?
Directions: The recent most dramatic development in applied microbiology is the ability to alter an organism’s genetic makeup.
New pieces of DNA can be inserted into a DNA molecule in a process called __________.
Directions: The recent most dramatic development in applied microbiology is the ability to alter an organism’s genetic makeup.