Overview
Description
Morphology, physiology, classification and culture techniques of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- discuss how microbes maintain equilibrium of gases in the atmosphere and nutrients in the terrestrial and aquatic areas of the earth.
- determine what differentiates the minority of pathogenic microbes from the majority of nonpathogenic microbes.
- describe how ongoing progress in technology has allowed a greater understanding of the role of microbes in human health and the ecology of the earth.
- use diagnostic tests to distinguish and identify an unknown bacteria.
- discuss why understanding the nature of microbes, their interactions with each other in communities, and their ability to mutate/change/evolve rapidly affects all parts of the natural world.