MCB 2004C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monomorphism, Rudolf Virchow, Pasteurization
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Chapter 1 (notes from class: what is microbiology, the study of organisms too small to be seen by the unaided eye, microbes are everywhere. Cellular living / reproduce by themselves: acellular non living organisms, replicate when inside a host, Infectious ex. virus: good and bad, normal flora good, found on you 10:1 human cells. Photosynthesis, microbes contribute oxygen from algae and cyanobacteria. Elemental cycles microbes involved in carbon, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorous cycles. Nitrogen cycle bacteria convert n2 in air to ammonia in the soil. Food chain plankton (microscopic organism) starting point in food chain. Some microbes serve as food for tiny animals: decomposers ( material into inorganic nutrients in soil. ex. ) break things dead and decaying organic: model organisms we watch them and how they reproduce instead of humans. ex. Gene for insulin put in bacteria to make more insulin.
