55-351- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 279 pages long!)

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 3070
• Professor: tanyanoel

Document Summary

Let"s begin by looking at some of the ways in which humans can interact with. Medical microbiology focuses on the microbes that affect human health. 0:12 will spend a lot of time looking at harmful microbes but remember that most. 0:17 microorganisms are not harmful to humans - many microbes don"t affect us, and we. 0:23 actually benefit directly or indirectly from many of them. 0:31 all the time and our bodies provide a home for a staggering number of them. Organisms living together in a symbiosis can have different types of. 0:41 relationships depending on the effects or benefits that are involved for the. 0:52 while benefiting from them, and when we"re looking at things like bacteria. 0:55 and viruses we call these very tiny parasites pathogens. 1:05 at many pathogens in this course, most of the microbes that are associated with us. 1:09 are either commensal or mutualistic so they either don"t really affect us at.