You will learn about some pathogenic yeast and some nonpathogenic, commerically used yeast. We may even get a chance or two to ingest some of their products made in food microbiology. These are quite different from prokaryotes and eukaryotes. They have unique strategies for replication and pathogenesis. We will discuss these a bit, but more detail would be covered in a separate course Parasites These will be briefly covered in this course but again would be a very interesting separate, upper level course.
Microbiology is a course which can be interesting when applied to daily life.
Microbiology deals with understanding infections, environmental issues, as well as the commercial uses for organisms such as in the making of bread, beer, cheese, antibiotics etc. It is a very good course for those planning to go on to medical school, graduate school, health fields, environmental science, and food science. The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author. The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.