BIOL 2051 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Winogradsky Column, Gelatinase, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
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Can get micro book, buy e-book, or buy each chapter. Can go to the website and look up the book. Microbiology- study of organisms too small to be seen with naked eye (ex: bacteria, viruses, protozoans, fungi) Agriculture: make antibiotics, control disease, nitrogen fixing bacteria (nodules filled with rhizobium ) Food industry: beer, wine, bread, yogurt, pickles, Genetic engineering: using bacteria to make commercial products, crops resistant to pests, heat, pesticides, etc. Keeps us alive: recycle nutrients, produce vitamins, degrade organic matter. Causes disease: hiv, colds, std"s, flu, food poisoning. Eukaryotes inside a host cell, they are inert. Destroy crops, but preserve food: algae (water, protozoa (water also, fungi (bread mold for example. They do not have a membrane, or nucleus. More soldiers have died from infections than battle wounds. 1861: pasteur shows that microbes do not grow in liquid until introduced from outside. Spontaneous generation-idea that living things arise from non-living matter.
