Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Human Microbiota
From: “Prescott’s Principles of Microbiology”, Willey, Sherwood, Woolverton; McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Readings
The Normal Flora of Humans
http://bioinfo.bact.wisc.edu/themicrobialworld/NormalFlora.html
Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course a fully engaged student should be able to
- distinguish between psycrophilic, themophilic, mesophilic, and barophilic bacteria
- define "adaptation" in the non-evolutionary sense
- briefly discuss "gene expression"
- discuss generation times of bacteria under different conditions
- discuss areas of the human body where bacteria are and are not typically found
- distinguish between Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria
- discuss some bacteria found on your skin and how they may play a "positive" role in your life
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