Microbes and Society: An Introduction to MicrobiologyMicrobes and Society: An Introduction to Microbiology is designed for liberal arts students as a foundation course in life science. This timely text emphasizes the relevance of microbes and their role in the everyday lives of humans -- microbes in food production and agriculture, in biotechnology and industry, and in ecology and the environment. It also discusses some of the negative impacts of microbes on our world, such as their role in disease and bioterrorism, but the primary focus is on how microbes, in their incredible variety, are essential to human life. Microbes and Society presents the many ways in which we intentionally (and sometimes, unintentionally) utilize microbes to improve our lives and enhance our life experience. |
Contents
THE MICROBIAL WORLD | 1 |
LOOKING AHEAD | 22 |
Of Collectors and Classifiers | 23 |
Anton van Leeuwenhoek | 34 |
The First Microbes | 47 |
BACTERIAL STRUCTURE AND PHYSIOLOGY | 49 |
Cytoplasmic Structures | 55 |
THE MICROBIAL WORLD | 68 |
Bacteria | 158 |
PHYSICAL METHODS OF CONTROL | 182 |
New Genes for Germs | 183 |
Viruses | 189 |
ANTIBIOTICS | 194 |
235 | 200 |
MICROBES AND HUMAN AFFAIRS | 205 |
The Competition | 223 |
At the Threshold of Life | 69 |
Bacterial Growth | 73 |
Archaebacteria Archaea | 80 |
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER | 86 |
LOOKING AHEAD | 90 |
A Microbial Grab | 91 |
Slime Molds | 107 |
CLASSIFICATION STRUCTURE | 114 |
Ascomycota | 120 |
Mycorrhizae | 128 |
Running the Microbial Machine | 135 |
Other Factors | 140 |
The Krebs Cycle | 148 |
A FINAL THOUGHT | 156 |
Protozoa | 239 |
Germs Genes and Genomics | 245 |
Algae | 258 |
Microbes at Work | 273 |
Microbes at Work | 288 |
No Microbes No Hamburgers | 295 |
A FINAL THOUGHT | 314 |
No Microbes No Life | 317 |
The Wars Within | 358 |
LOOKING AHEAD | 364 |
SPECIFIC RESISTANCE | 371 |
A FINAL THOUGHT | 388 |
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER | 423 |
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