Date

Lecture Topic

Reading in Text (9th ed.)

M   6/23

Unit 1. The Microbial World and You  CH 1: What Are Microbes? What is Microbiology?,  

pp. 1-6, 17-21, 

T   6/24

CH 1 How Did Microbiology Become a Science?

pp. 6-16; 425-426

W   6/25

Classification of Microbes / CH 3: How Do We See Microbes?

pp. 282-292; 56-68

R   6/26

CH 4: Anatomy of Prokaryotic Cells,  Origin of Eukaryotic Cells/End Material For Test 1

 pp. 78-80; 89-98,  pp.85-89; 80-85, pp. 100 & 106-107

M   6/30

TEST 1 - UNIT 1

T    7/1

Unit 2. How Do Microbes Grow? CH 6: Characteristics of Microbial Growth

 pp. 143-148; 174-183

W   7/2

CH 6: Effects of the Physical Environment on Microbial Growth and control

pp.160-167,  CH 7: entire; 582-587

R   7/3

CH 5: General characteristics of metabolism, enzymes, redox reactions

pp. 114-125

M  7/7

CH 5: Carbon and Energy from Organic Chemicals; Carbohydrate catabolism

pp. 125-127

T   7/8

CH 5: Fermentation/Aerobic Respiration/ Anaerobic Respiration /End Material for Test 2

pp. 134-137; 129-135,  pp. 133-135;     141-143

W   7/9

TEST 2 – UNIT 2

R   7/10

Unit 3. Microbial Genetics and Viruses CH 8: Nucleic Acids / How Prokaryotes Replicate DNA

 pp. 47-49; 214-223

M   7/14

CH 8: Converting DNA into RNA and Proteins

pp. 223-227

T   7/15

CH 8: Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes/ Genetic Transfer

pp. 227-233; 238-247

W  7/16

CH 13: Viruses - General Characteristics and Bacteriophages

pp. 386-394; 397-400

R   7/17

CH 13: Viruses - Animal Viruses/ End Material for Test 3

pp. 394-397; 400-414

M   7/21

TEST 3 - UNIT 3

T   7/22

Unit 4. Survey - Role of Microbes in Health and Disease  CH 27: Environmental Microbiology

 CH 27: entire

W   7/23

Disease and Epidemiology

CH 14: entire

R   7/24

CH 21: Microbial diseases of the skin; CH 22: nervous system; CH 23: cardiovascular and lymphatic systems

pp. 613-622; 644-647; 670-674; 683-687

M   7/28

CH 24: Microbial diseases of the respiratory system, 

pp. 717-718; 731-733

T    7/29

CH 25: digestive system; food poisoning, Sexually transmitted diseases

 pp. 745-754; 790-791;794-797;800-803

W  7/30

Bioterrorism, and  (review for final time permitting)

pp. 679--681

R   7/31

FINAL EXAM Unit 4 + Comprehensive