Unseen Diversity : the World of Bacteria

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Call Number: BOCD 579.3 Dy
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Lectures.
"14 lectures, 7 compact discs"--Container.
Compact disc.
Accompanying course guide includes bibliographical references.
disc 1. lecture 1. Introduction to the bacterial world. Hidden in plain sight -- disc 2. lecture 3. Seventeenth century microscopy and the discover of bacteria. lecture 4. A brief history of Bacteriology -- disc 3. lecture 5. The family tree of bacteria. lecture 6. The extremophiles -- disc 4. lecture 7. An enormous and diverse group : the proteobacteria. lecture 8. An enormous and diverse group : the gram positives -- disc 5. lecture 9. Gram positives in the soil community. lecture 10. Bacteria as pathogens -- disc 6. lecture 11. What about the viruses? lecture 12. Cyanobacteria : the original photosynthesizers -- disc 7. lecture 13. Diverse metabolisms. lecture 14. Future directions.
Lecturer, Betsey Dexter Dyer.
An overview of bacteriology presented in fourteen lectures by Betsey Dexter Dyer, biology professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, covering: the role of bacteria as major player in Earth's biodiversity; the history of microbiology; the four billion year history of bacteria and archaea as the dominant organisms on Earth; the place of pathogens in the greater context of the bacterial world.

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