MICI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beer Engine, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Bunsen Burner
18 Jun 2017
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Learning outcomes: recognize the diversity of microbes and their impacts on human health, key discoveries, koch"s 4 postulates, dna/rna milestones, understanding genetic engineering and how it applies to biotechnology. Why study microbiology: microbiology is relevant to all aspects of life: Microbial cells are the simplest forms of life: microorganisms are 4 billion years old: Carbon-dating was used to determine this: microbial diversity. It"s limited to what can be studied and grown in a lab. For instance, tiny bacteria that live in the guts of termites were discovered via dna and rna analyses. These bacteria can"t be studied because they can"t be grown in a lab: immune system / immune defence: It"s adaptive and learns over time: immunology is useful for, the planet, human health and medicine, biotechnology, therapeutics. Fun fact: your microbiome, which is all of the bacteria living in your gut, weighs about.
