BIOL 2051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soybean, Stanley Miller, Paramecium
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Chapter overview: the microbes, microbial genetics, microbial metabolism and ecology, microbes and disease. Industry: some are pathogens but most are harmless or beneficial c. Some organisms make the antibiotics, and some organisms are killed by them. They take nitrogen gas from the air and convert it to ammonia c. ii. 3. Bacteria in root nodules can cause the plants to grow better c. iii. Food industry: beer, wine, bread, yogurt, pickles, chocolate c. iii. 1. Took human insulin gene and inserted it into e. coli c. iv. 1. b. Growth hormones and vitamins can be made in a similar way. Crops resistant to pests, heat, pesticides, herbicides, etc. c. v. keep us alive c. v. 1. Cause diseases (most microbes are not pathogenic) c. vi. 1. The study of organisms and viruses too small to be seen with the naked eye a. ii. 1. You have to have a microscope to see these agents a. iii. Common in mud and lake water a. iii. 2. a. iii. 3. A protozoan common in mud and lake water a. iv. 2.
