MICROBIOLOGY - M.H. Serhiichuk - 2008

Introduction

Chapter 1. DISCOVERY OF MICROORGANISMS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MICROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

 Self-Assessment Questions

Chapter 2. MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE BACTERIAL CELL

 Methods of Microscopic Examination of Microorganisms

 BACTERIAL MORPHOLOGY

 ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE PROKARYOTIC CELL

 Self-Assessment Questions

Chapter 3. BACTERIAL GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION

 Bacterial Cell Division. The Cell Cycle

 PATTERNS OF MICROBIAL POPULATION DEVELOPMENT IN BATCH CULTURE

 Continuous Cultivation

 Self-Assessment Questions

CHAPTER 4. BACTERIAL GENETICS

 GENETIC APPARATUS OF THE BACTERIAL CELL

 MODIFICATION VARIABILITY

 DISSOCIATION

 Repair of Damaged DNA

 GENETIC RECOMBINATION

 Bacterial Plasmids

 Self-Assessment Questions

Chapter 5. MICROBIAL METABOLISM

 Nutritional Requirements of Microorganisms. Culture Media

 Transport of Substances into the Microbial Cell

 INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MICROBIAL CHEMICAL REACTIONS

 Types of microbial metabolism

 TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTORS IN MICROORGANISMS

 CATABOLISM OF AEROBIC CHEMOORGANOTROPHIC MICROORGANISMS

 Catabolism of aerobic chemolithotrophic microorganisms

 ENERGY GENERATION AND REDUCTION EQUIVALENTS IN PHOTOTROPHIC MICROORGANISMS

 SELECTED ANABOLIC PROCESSES IN MICROORGANISMS

 MECHANISMS OF CARBON ASSIMILATION BY MICROORGANISMS

 MECHANISMS OF NITROGEN AND SULFUR ASSIMILATION BY MICROORGANISMS

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Chapter 6. PHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ANAEROBIC MICROORGANISMS

 Fermentation

 Anaerobic respiration

 Methanogenesis

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Chapter 7. MICROBIAL SYSTEMATICS

 POSITION OF MICROORGANISMS IN THE SYSTEM OF LIVING ORGANISMS

 Taxonomic terminology

 Principles of bacterial classification

 BRIEF CHARACTERISTICS OF PROKARYOTIC TAXONOMIC GROUPS

 Self-assessment questions

Chapter 8. MICROORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

 INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON MICROORGANISMS

 Soil microorganisms

 Aquatic microorganisms

 Microbial interactions in nature

 Self-assessment questions

Chapter 9. THE ROLE OF MICROORGANISMS IN BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

 Nitrogen cycle

 Microbial transformation of sulfur compounds

 TRANSFORMATION OF PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS

 Iron cycle

 Carbon cycle

 Microbial degradation of natural substances

 BACTERIAL PREPARATIONS FOR ENHANCING SOIL FERTILITY

 Self-assessment questions

Chapter 10. INFECTION AND INFECTIOUS PROCESS

 PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE OF MICROORGANISMS

 GENETIC CONTROL OF PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE

 REGULATION OF PATHOGENICITY FACTOR EXPRESSION IN BACTERIA

 Epidemiology of the infectious process

 Self-assessment questions

Chapter 11. ANTIBIOTICS. PROBIOTICS

 Antibiotics and their classification

 Probiotics

 Self-assessment questions

Chapter 12. HUMAN APPLICATIONS OF MICROORGANISMS

 Food industry

 Microbial synthesis

 Medicine

 Agriculture

 Biogeotechnology

 Environmental Bioremediation

 Environmental Bioremediation

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