MBIO 1010 Lecture Notes - Scanning Electron Microscope, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Atomic-Force Microscopy

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MBIO 1010
• Professor: Christopher Rathgeber

Document Summary

Microbiology: study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye, ex. Bacteria, viruses, and single celled eukaryotes: some microorganisms however are visible with the human eye, ex. : filamentous (fungi-like: fungi: unicellular (yeast), filamentous (mold), or multicellular (mushrooms, prokaryotes, no membrane bound nucleus and organelles, generally smaller than the eukaryotes (approx. 1 m diameter: simple internal structure, divide by binary fission, most are unicellular, 2 types, bacteria (old name: eubacteria) Includes pathogens (disease causing) and non-pathogens: archaea (old name: archaebacteria) : full set of genetic information present in an organism: i. e. full set of genes, gene, dna. : a section of dna that encodes for a product (protein, rna) Metagenome: sequence all genes from the environment, ex. Sequence of all genes from the human colon: gives information on all organisms as a whole living in the colon. Comparative genomics: the science of comparing available genomes to look for similarities and differences.