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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