- A few words about classification
- Acknowledgements
- Aerobic respiration
- Alcoholic fermentations
- Alcohols
- Amoebas with external shells Foraminifera and Radiolaria
- Anabolic reactions
- Anaerobic respiration
- Anoxygenic photosynthesis
- Antibiotic susceptibility testing
- Antibiotics
- Antifungal and antiviral agents
- Antimicrobial Agents
- Antiviral agents
- Ascomycota
- Atomic structure
- Bacteria and human disease
- Bacteriophages as cloning vectors
- Batch culture and continuous culture
- Beneficial effects of microorganisms in the environment
- Biochemical Principles
- Bioremediation
- Biosynthesis of amino acids
- Biosynthesis of carbohydrates
- Biosynthesis of lipids
- Biosynthesis of nucleic acids
- Box 11 Kochs postulates
- Box 12 The Gram stain
- Box 21 How heavy is a mole
- Box 22 Isomers same formula different structure
- Box 23 Sugars are more accurately shown as ring structures
- Box 25 Saturated or unsaturated
- Box 31 Mesosomes the structures that never were
- Box 41 Aseptic technique
- Box 51 Estimation of viable cell numbers
- Box 52 The most probable number MPN method
- Box 53 Buffers
- Box 54 How can oxygen be toxic
- Box 55 Diauxic growth
- Box 56 Calculating an increase in microbial numbers Example
- Box 57 See for yourself
- Box 58 Who believes in fairies
- Box 82 Ergot
- Bread
- Capsid structure
- Carbon dioxide
- Cell division in procaryotes and eucaryotes
- Cell Structure and Organisation
- Cell wall
- Certain enzymes have a nonprotein component
- Ch2oh
- Chapter - 2 3 4
- Chlorophyta
- Chloroplasts
- Chytridiomycota
- Classification of the Archaea
- Classification of the Fungi
- Classification of viruses
- Cloning vectors for higher plants
- Conjugation
- Contact transmission syphilis
- Contents
- Cultivating viruses
- Dairy products
- Detection and isolation of microorganisms in the environment
- Diatoms
- Dictyostelida cellular slime moulds
- Dinoflagellata
- Disinfection
- DNA damage can be repaired
- DNA replication
- DNA replication in procaryotes
- Domain Archaea
- Electron microscopy
- Emerging and reemerging viral diseases
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Energy may be generated by the oxidation of inorganic molecules
- Environmental factors affect enzyme activity
- Enzyme classification
- Enzymes
- Essential Microbiology
- Eucaryotic cloning vectors
- Euglenophyta
- Fermentation
- Filtration
- Flagella and cilia
- Further Reading
- Gene transfer in conjugation is one way only
- General features of the Archaea
- General microbiology
- Genetic transfer in microorganisms
- Genetically engineered insect resistance using Bacillus thuringiensis
- Glossary
- Glycolysis
- Golgi apparatus
- Growth media for the cultivation of bacteria
- H2coh
- Halogens
- Harmful effects of microorganisms in the environment
- How do antibiotics work
- How do enzymes speed up a reaction
- How do mutations occur
- How do nutrients get into the microbial cell
- How do we know genes are made of DNA
- How do we know Microbiology in perspective to the golden age and beyond
- How does a gene direct the synthesis of a protein
- How does resistance arise
- How does transformation occur
- Induced competence
- Induction of gene expression
- Industrial and Food Microbiology
- Introduction
- Isotopes
- Killing by irradiation
- Laboratory cultivation of microorganisms
- Light microscopy
- Lipids
- Lysosomes
- Metabolism of lipids and proteins
- Microbial Associations
- Microbial associations with animals
- Microbial associations with other microorganisms
- Microbial associations with plants
- Microbial Growth
- Microbiology What Why and
- Microorganisms and food
- Microorganisms as food
- Microorganisms in the Environment
- Microorganisms in the mining industry
- Microorganisms in the production of biochemicals
- Mitochondria
- Morphology
- Mutagenic agents increase the rate of mutations
- Mutations can add or remove nucleotides
- Mutations can be reversed
- Mutations have a variety of mechanisms
- Myxomycota plasmodial slime moulds
- Nucleic acids
- Nutrition
- Nutritional categories
- Obtaining a pure culture
- Oomycota water moulds
- Osmotic pressure
- Oxidationreduction reactions
- Oxidative phosphorylation and the electron transport chain
- Oxygen
- Phaeophyta
- Phenolics
- Phosphorus
- Photosynthesis
- Phylum Actinobacteria The high GC Grampositive bacteria
- Phylum Aquificae and phylum Thermotogae the deeply branching bacteria
- Phylum Bacteroidetes
- Phylum Chlorobi green sulphur bacteria and phylum Chloroflexi green nonsulphur bacteria
- Phylum Cyanobacteria the bluegreen bacteria
- Phylum Deinococcus Thermus
- Phylum Planctomycetes
- Phylum Proteobacteria
- Phylum Spirochaetes
- Physical mutagens
- Plasma membrane
- Plasmid cloning vectors
- Polymerase chain reaction PCR
- Preface
- Preservation of microbial cultures
- Principles of energy generation
- Prions
- Procaryote Diversity
- Procaryotic cell structure
- Proteins
- Protistan taxonomy a modern view
- R
- Regulation of gene expression
- Replication cycles in animal viruses
- Replication cycles in bacteriophages
- Replication cycles in plant viruses
- Replication of RNA viruses
- Repression of gene expression
- Reproduction
- Resistance to antibiotics
- Rhodophyta
- Solid waste treatment composting and landfill
- Sterilisation
- Sterilisation by heat
- Sterilisation by irradiation
- Sterilisation using ethylene oxide
- Structural characteristics of algal protists
- Temperature
- Test yourself - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
- The Algae
- The amoebas Sarcodina
- The carbon cycle
- The ciliates Ciliophora
- The Control of Microorganisms
- The eucaryotic cell
- The Fungi
- The future
- The genetic code
- The Grampositive bacteria phylum Firmicutes and phylum Actinobacteria
- The kinetics of cell death
- The kinetics of microbial growth
- The microbial spoilage of food
- The microbiology of freshwater
- The microbiology of seawater
- The microbiology of soil
- The molecular basis of mutations
- The nitrogen cycle
- The nucleus
- The procaryotic cell
- The Protista
- The Protozoa
- The regulation of metabolism
- The sporozoans Apicomplexa
- The sulphur cycle
- The viral envelope
- The viral genome
- Transcription in procaryotes
- Transduction Box 119
- Transformation
- Translation
- Transmission by water or food viral gastroenteritis
- Transposable elements
- Vectorborne transmission plague
- Viral replication cycles
- Viral structure
- Viroids
- Viruses
- Viruses and cancer
- Viruses as vectors in eucaryotic systems
- Wastewater treatment
- Waterborne transmission cholera
- What are viruses
- What exactly do genes do
- What happens when replication goes wrong
- What is microbiology
- What other properties should an antibiotic have
- Why is energy needed
- Why is microbiology important
- YACs BACs and PACs
- Zygomycota