This course is designed to introduce the student to the lifestyles and impact of the smallest organisms known. Lecture/discussion will examine topics such as microbial cell structure and function, growth and nutrition, genetics, antibiotics and pathogenesis, and microbial diversity. The laboratory is organized around an investigative, discovery driven project. This course will be offered in alternate years in the fall semester beginning in 2011.
Prerequisite: Biology 111 and 112 or permission of instructor.
