Microbiology: Study of Microbes
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Microbiology: Study of Microbes

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Microbiology is the study of ______.

microbes

We have 100 trillion ______ in our body.

microbes

Indigenous Micro Biota inhibits the growth of ______ in the body.

pathogens

Escherichia coli (E coli) lives in our ______ tracts.

<p>intestinal</p> Signup and view all the answers

Photosynthesis is the process known for microbes to produce ______.

<p>oxygen</p> Signup and view all the answers

Decomposers/Saprophytes are involved in the decomposition of dead organisms and the waste products of living ______.

<p>organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

Francesco Redi refuted the idea of spontaneous generation by showing that rotting meat carefully kept from flies will not spontaneously produce ______.

<p>maggots</p> Signup and view all the answers

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek ground tiny glass lenses to create what are known today as single-lens microscopes or ______.

<p>simple microscopes</p> Signup and view all the answers

Robert Hooke discovered cells using a compound light ______.

<p>microscope</p> Signup and view all the answers

Aristotle proposed the theory of spontaneous generation where life arose from nonliving material if the material contained ______.

<p>pneuma (vital heat)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hans and Zacharias Jansen mounted two lenses in a tube to produce the first compound ______.

<p>microscope</p> Signup and view all the answers

John Needham was an advocate for spontaneous generation, believing that life can arise from nonliving ______.

<p>matter</p> Signup and view all the answers

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