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What is Molecular Biology?
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Studies how genetic information is carried in molecules of DNA and how DNA directs the Synthsis of proteins
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What is Microbial Ecology?
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The study of the relationship between microorganisms and thier environment.
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Virology
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The study of viruses
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Mycology
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the study of fungi
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Parasitology
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the study of protozoa and parasitic worms
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What is the germ theory?
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microorganisms that might have similar relationships with plants and animals-specifically microorganisms that cause disease
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Pasteurization
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commonly used to reduce spoilage and kill potentially bacteria
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What are viruses
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They are acellular; small that only a microscope can see them.
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Fungi
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organisma whose cells have a distinct nucleous containing the cll's genetic material
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Archaea
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consist of prokaryotic cells but the cell walls lack peptidoglycan
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Algea
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photosyntheic eukaryotes with a wide variety of shape and both sexual and asexual.
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Bacteria
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singledcalled (unicellular)
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Protozoa
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unicellular, eukaryotic, microbes; moved by flagella or cilia.
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What is cell theory?
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That all living things are composed of cells
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Koch's Postulate
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established a sequence of experimential steps for direct rlating a specfic microbe to a specfic diease
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