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A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of ______ size
microscopic
The possible existence of ______ microbial life was suspected from ancient times
unseen
The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by ______
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
In the 1850s, Louis Pasteur found that microorganisms caused food spoilage, debunking the theory of ______ generation
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In the 1880s, Robert Koch discovered that microorganisms caused the diseases tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, and ______
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