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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Microbioloxía |
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| Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Microbioloxía | Code | 610G02015 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Section I: : Introduction to Microbiology | 1.- Members of the Microbial World. History of Microbiology. Importance of the microorganisms 2.- Microbial diversity. The Three Domais: Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. Viruses. The species concept in Microbiology. Nomenclature |
| SECTION II: Prokaryotic cell structure | 3.- Cell shape and size. Cell wall 4.- Bacterial protoplast 5.- Cell surface structures 6.- Bacterial endospores |
| SECTION III: Microbial nutrition, metabolism and growth | 7.- Nutrition and culture of microorganisms. Nutritional types. Nutrient sources. Culture media. 8.- Essentials of microbial metabolism. Metabolic diversity 9.- Microbial growth: cell division and population growth. Measurement of microbial growth. 10.- Effect of environmental factors on microbial growth |
| SECTION IV: Virology | 11.- Overview of Virology 12.-Bacterial viruses 13.- Animal viruses. Viruses and cancer. Antiviral chemotherapyl 14.- Plant viruses. Subviral entities |
| SECTION V: Microbial genetics | 15.- Bacterial nucleoid: replication. Regulation of gene expression. Plasmids 16.- Mutation 17- Gene transfer in bacteria and archaea: transformation, transduction and conjugation. Transposable elements |
| SECTION VI: Microbial evolution and systematics | 18.- Microbial evolution 19.- Microbial systematics. Classification and identification 20.- Domino Archaea 21.- Dominio Bacteria |
| LABORATORY PRACTICE | - Observation of microorganisms. Staining techniques - Preparation of culture media - Laboratory culture of microorganims. Obtention of pure cultures - Normal microbiota - Growth curve - Identification of microorganisms |
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