Date

Lecture Topic

Reading in Text (8th ed.)

M 1/9

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

pp. 1-6, 16-21

W 1/11

CH 1: How Did Microbiology Become a Science?

pp. 6-16; 413-415

M 1/16

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – no labs

W 1/18

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

pp. 276-284; 54-66

M 1/23

continued  CH 4: Anatomy of Prokaryotic Cells

 pp. 75-78; 87-96

W 1/25

continued

pp.79-86; 66-71

M 1/30

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

pp. 96 & 106

W 2/1

TEST 1 - UNIT 1

M 2/6

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

 pp. 139-144; 170-179 

W 2/8

CH 6: Effects of the Physical Environment on Microbial Growth

pp.156-163

M 2/13

CH 7: Control of Microbial Growth

CH 7: entire; 559-564

W 2/15

CH 5: General characteristics of metabolism, enzymes, redox

pp. 111-122

M 2/20

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

pp. 122-124

W 2/22

CH 5: Fermentation / Aerobic Respiration

pp. 132-134; 124-131

M 2/27

CH 5: Anaerobic Respiration / Autotrophy / Anabolism End Material for Test 2

pp. 130-132; 136-138; 144-148

W 3/1

TEST 2 – UNIT 2

M-F 3/6-10

SPRING BREAK

M 3/13

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

 pp. 47-49; 211-217

W 3/15

CH 8: Converting DNA into RNA and Proteins

pp. 217-222

M 3/20

CH 8: Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes/ Genetic Transfer

pp. 222-228; 234-243

W 3/22

CH 13: Viruses - General Characteristics and Bacteriophages

pp. 376-384; 386-390

M 3/27

CH 13: Viruses - Animal Viruses

pp. 384-386; 390-402

W 3/29

Animal viruses continued / End Material for Test 3

 pp. 384-386; 390-402

M 4/3

TEST 3 - UNIT 3

W 4/5

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

 CH 27: entire

M 4/10

continued

 CH 27: entire

W 4/12

Disease and Epidemiology

CH 14: entire

M 4/17

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

pp. 590-597; 616-619; 640-642; 650-654

W 4/19

CH 24: Microbial diseases of the respiratory system

pp. 681; 692-694

M 4/24

CH 25: Microbial diseases of the digestive system; food poisoning

pp. 709-715

W 4/26

Bioterrorism

pp. 646-647 (box on 648-649)

 M 5/1

FINAL EXAM - Comprehensive 8:00-9:50 am Brooks 176