BIOS 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Antiseptic, Phenol, Water Treatment
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Lecture # 25/monday is now posted on blackboard. We"ll start with mycoplasmal pneumonia as our dod. You should have read chapter 7 fully by now. That"s slides 10-17 from friday"s lecture and a new bit on using electron beams to sterilize, pages 803- In terms of a more philosophical approach to monday"s lecture, we spent a great deal of time looking at the importance of all the different parts of a bacterium. Now think about which parts can be dispensed with so that you still have a successful free living organism, or a successful pathogen. An alternative way to view this question is to look at e. coli having roughly 4100 genes and then ask yourself what is the minimum number of genes needed to make a free living, self replicating organism. Impairs protein synthesis: alters cell membranes, available in tincture solution that is aqueous alcohol.
