Microbiology · Chapter 1

The Microbial World and Why It Matters

Who the microbes are, and when one of them turns into trouble

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Six lessons cover this chapter. Open any of them on its own below, or meet it in place inside chapter 1 of the book. Tick a lesson off once you can predict what it will do before you touch it.

1

Meet the Microbes

Zoom in on each of the six groups and compare their real sizes.

2

Where Your Microbes Live

Pick a body site. Then watch soap or a drug change who lives there.

3

Colonization, Infection, Disease

Set the dose and the defenses. Run the days and see which state you get.

4

Koch's Postulates

Run the four steps on three real cases. See where the proof holds up.

5

Place It on the Tree of Life

Read a cell's features, then place it in one of the three domains.

6

Name That Microbe

Build a two-part Latin name. Then fix one that was typed wrong.

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