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Microbiology (from Greek , "mikros", "small"; , "bios", "life"; and , "-logia") is the study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, mycology, parasitology, and bacteriology.

Eukaryotic microorganisms possess membrane-bound cell organelles and include fungi and protists, whereas prokaryotic organismsall of which are microorganismsare conventionally classified as lacking membrane-bound organelles and include eubacteria and archaebacteria. Microbiologists traditionally relied on culture, staining, and microscopy. However, less than 1% of the microorganisms present in common environments can be cultured in isolation using current means. Microbiologists often rely on extraction or detection of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA sequences.

Viruses have been variably classified as organisms, as they have been considered either as very simple microorganisms or very complex molecules. Prions, never considered microorganisms, have been investigated by virologists, however, as the clinical effects traced to them were originally presumed due to chronic viral infections, and virologists took searchdiscovering "infectious proteins".

The existence of microorganisms was predicted many centuries before they were first observed, for example by the Jains in India and by Marcus Terentius Varro in ancient Rome. The first recorded microscope observation was of the fruiting bodies of moulds, by Robert Hooke in 1666, but the Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher was likely the first to see microbes, which he mentioned observing in milk and putrid material in 1658. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is considered a father of microbiology as he observed and experimented with microscopic organisms in 1676, using simple microscopes of his own design. Scientific microbiology developed in the 19th century through the work of Louis Pasteur and in medical microbiology Robert Koch.

1. what are the word roots of "microbiology?"
2. what do they mean?
3. what is microbiology?
4. who is considered the father of the study?
5. who was the first to see microbes?
6. where did he see them?
7. when?
8. was he the first to record a microscope observation?
9. who was?
10. what did he visualize?
11. when?
12. Were they thought to exist before visual proof was found?
13. who in Rome predicted their existance?
14. did anyone in India expect them to exist?

Numbered answers:
1. The Greek "mikros", "bios" and "-logia")
2. Mikros is small and bios is life.
3. The study of microorganisms
4. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
5. Athanasius Kircher
6. In milk and putrid material
7. 1658
8. No
9. Robert Hooke
10. The fruiting bodies of moulds
11. In 1666
12. Yes
13. Marcus Terentius Varro
14. Yes