Members of the Bacterial World
Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells
Introduction to Spontaneous Generation
Francesco Redi's Experiments
Needham vs. Spallanzani
Pasteur's Experiments on Spontaneous Generation
John Tyndall's Experiment
History of Spontaneous Generation Summarized
Atoms- Smallest Unit of Matter
Isotopes
Introduction to Chemical Bonding
Covalent Bonds
Ionic Bonding
Hydrogen Bonding
Introduction to Water
Acids and Bases
Functional Groups
Lipids
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Bacterial Cell Morphology & Arrangements
Introduction to Bacterial Cell Walls
Gram-Positive Cell Walls
Gram-Negative Cell Walls
Gram-Positive vs. Gram-Negative Cell Walls
The Glycocalyx: Capsules & Slime Layers
Introduction to Prokaryotic Flagella
Prokaryotic Ribosomes
Cell Inclusions
Endospores
Introduction to Eukaryotic Organelles
Endosymbiotic Theory
Introduction to Microscopes
Light Microscopy: Bright-Field Microscopes
Electron Microscopes
Simple Staining
Differential Staining
Scientific Method
Koch's Postulates
Introduction to Taxonomy
Scientific Naming of Organisms