BIOL240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Terraforming, Stromatolite
15 Mar 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
BIOL 240 – Class 1
- Check out lab opportunities for this course 240L
- Textbook – microbiology (Wessner, 2nd ed)
- jneufeld@uwaterloo.ca
- Meet him at B1-275, Monday and Thursday 2-3pm
- Oct 26th – midterm 1 – 35%, 5:30pm
- Final exam – 65%
- Clicker – 5%
- Check for podcasts and videocasts in the course content
- There is a pdf file with ONLY clicker questions with answers
- Exam material will consist of lecture notes, ppt slide and course notes
- The science of microorganisms.
- New field (100 years old)
- Microorganisms:
o Prokaryotic include arachea and bacteria
o Eukaryotic include algae, fungi and other such organisms
- Macroorganisms
o Prokaryotic – none know
o Eukaryotic – mammals and all
- Stromatolites – these things basically terraformed earth by producing all that oxygen long time ago.
