Microorganisms and Biotechnology,9780174482550

Microorganisms and Biotechnology

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780174482550
ISBN10: 0174482558
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Nelson Thornes
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Summary

Each book contains clear chapter objectives and closing summaries, a range of independent learning activities including assignments, analysis exercises and in-text questions. Science is presented in context with strong emphasis on economic, social and environmental factors.

Table of Contents

Bath Advanced Science Series: introduction vi
How to use this book vii
THEME 1 WHAT ARE MICROORGANISMS?
Introducing microorganisms and biotechnology
3(8)
Why do we study microorganisms and biotechnology?
3(1)
The history of biotechnology
4(2)
What are microorganisms?
6(1)
Seeing microorganisms
6(1)
Naming microorganisms
7(1)
Prokaryotes and eukaryotes
8(3)
The main groups of microorganisms
11(21)
Prokaryota
11(1)
Bacteria
12(7)
Cyanobacteria
19(1)
Protoctista
20(3)
Fungi
23(3)
Viruses
26(6)
Growing microorganisms
32(21)
Microorganisms in the biosphere
32(1)
Factors affecting microbial growth
33(3)
Sterile technique
36(1)
Growing microorganisms
37(2)
Batch and continuous culture
39(1)
Isolating bacteria
40(1)
Measuring bacterial growth
41(3)
Measuring fungal growth
44(1)
The bacterial growth curve
44(2)
Growing and counting viruses
46(7)
THEME 2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Food microbiology
53(19)
Microorganisms and food
53(1)
Where microorganisms in food come from
54(1)
Making foods with microorganisms
55(1)
Yeast and its products
55(2)
Foods made with lactic acid bacteria
57(3)
Aspergillus fermentations of soy beans
60(1)
Single cell protein
61(1)
Food and biotechnology
62(1)
Food spoilage
63(2)
Preserving foods
65(7)
Cleaning up with microorganisms
72(19)
Problems generated by waste disposal
72(1)
Natural water
73(1)
Polluted water
73(2)
Measuring water quality
75(2)
How water is purified
77(1)
Dealing with waste water
78(1)
Using microorganisms to clean up water
79(3)
Cleaning up the environment
82(2)
`Where there's muck there's brass' -- turning waste into profit
84(7)
Industrial microbiology
91(30)
Putting cells to work
91(1)
Growing cells on a large scale
92(6)
What microorganisms can make
98(1)
Selecting the microorganisms
99(1)
Changing genes
100(4)
Biotransformations
104(1)
Vaccines
104(2)
Antibiotics and other metabolites
106(2)
Enzymes
108(5)
Animal cell products
113(2)
Plant cell products
115(1)
Transgenic animals
115(6)
THEME 3 MICROORGANISMS AND DISEASE
The body's fight against disease
121(20)
How microorganisms cause disease
121(2)
Defence mechanisms
123(3)
Antibodies and antigens
126(2)
White cells
128(2)
Vaccines and antisera
130(6)
Drugs and antibiotics
136(5)
Human disease
141(18)
Introduction
141(1)
How diseases are spread
142(1)
How microorganisms are transmitted
143(3)
Bacterial diseases
146(3)
Viral diseases
149(5)
Protozoal diseases
154(5)
Plant disease and biotechnology
159(15)
Plant disease
159(1)
Microorganisms that cause plant disease
160(1)
How plant diseases are spread
160(2)
Plant defence mechanisms
162(1)
Fungal diseases
163(2)
Viral diseases
165(1)
Bacterial diseases
166(1)
How plant diseases are controlled
166(3)
Plant biotechnology
169(1)
Breeding resistance into plants
170(4)
Exam questions
174(5)
Appendices
A Ideas for practical and other investigations
175(2)
B Glossary of biological terms
177(2)
Extending your understanding: wider reading and suggestions for web searches 179(2)
Index 181

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