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Microbial Ecology
Credit Hour(s): 3 Units
Instructor(s): TBD
Offered: TBD
Prerequisite(s): Micro 4000 or Micro 4100
Role in Microbiology Major: Group 1 Elective
Lecture Topics:
- Microbes in the environment: air, soil, and aquatic environments
- Microorganisms in agriculture
- Microbes and elemental cycles: carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles
- Environmental limits
- Biotransformation of metals
- Extremophiles
- Greenhouse gases
- Oxygen / carbon dioxide relationships
- Detection and identification microbes in environment
- Culture independent microbial diversity
- Human microbiome
- Microorganisms in animals
