Microbiology : dynamics and diversity
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Microbiology : dynamics and diversity
Saunders College Pub., c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text is intended for a core microbiology course. It covers a range of topics in the sequence commonly taught in microbiology, and features levels of organization approach and emphasizes how research advances within microbiology.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: the scope of microbiology
- the microbial world
- historical perspective
- fundamental chemical principles
- structure and function of eubacteria and archaea. Part 2: microbial physiology
- nutrition and growth
- nutrition, isolation, and cultivation of microorganisms
- microbial growth
- control of growth. Part 3: microbial physiology
- metabolism
- conservation of chemically generated energy
- conservation of photochemically generated energy
- biosynthesis of monomers
- assembly of cell structures
- microbial biodegradation. Part 4: genetics and basic virology
- basic genetics
- viruses
- genetic exchange
- recombinant DNA. Part 5: microbial evolution and diversity
- taxonomy of eubacteria and archaea
- evolution
- gram-negative heterotrophic eubacteria
- gram-positive heterotrophic eubacteria
- photogrophic
- chemolithotrophic, and methyloptrophic eubacteria
- archaebacteria
- eukaryotic organisms. Part 6: microbial ecology
- microorganisms and ecosystems
- beneficial symbiotic associations
- host-parasite relationships - non-specific host resistance. Part 7: immunology and medical microbiology
- basic responses of the immune system
- immunity and immune dysfunction
- major microbial diseases of humans
- major viral diseases of humans
- epidemiology and clinical microbiology. Part 8: applied microbiology
- industrial microbiology
- environmental microbiology.
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