BIOL 2053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microbiological Culture, Louis Pasteur, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
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Microbiology : the study of unicellular organisms and infectious agents . we"ll learn exams to calendar. Microbial diversity : special grow techniques to isolate and and them . Dd from all and ecological complexes of which part of variability of microbes. Includes distinct between diversity within and ecosystems species the ecosystems they are species , They all microbes are the significant ? of all source found everywhere ! nutrients at the base of the food elements webs . Produce bread , cheese beer antibiotics and digest wine , vaccines. Prokaryotes unicellular organisms simple morphology lack a membrane nucleus bacteria cell walls of peptidoglycan found everywhere: usually beneficial sometimes pathogenic cyanobacteria . can photo syn. Protozoa algae animal like microbes plant . like microbes locomotion ingest other microbes use light to photosynthesize. Mostly parasites for: viruses : must animals t plants . bacteria. : observed mouth stool samples . and: louis. Pasteur boiled mediums microbial growth . dont promote unicellular.