Importance of Microorganisms
Characteristics of Infectious Disease
Introduction to Taxonomy
Scientific Naming of Organisms
Overview of Prokaryotic Cell Structure
Members of the Bacterial World
Introduction to Archaea
Introduction to Eukarya
Acellular Infectious Agents: Viruses, Viroids & Prions
Introduction to Spontaneous Generation
Francesco Redi's Experiments
Needham vs. Spallanzani
Pasteur's Experiments on Spontaneous Generation
Koch's Postulates
Introduction to Chemical Bonding
Atoms- Smallest Unit of Matter
Isotopes
Ionic Bonding
Covalent Bonds
Hydrogen Bonding
Introduction to Water
Acids and Bases
pH Scale
Carbon
Functional Groups
Introduction to Biomolecules
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Lipids
Introduction to Microscopes
Gram Stain
Introduction to Staining
Simple Staining
Introduction to Light Microscopy
Light Microscopy: Bright-Field Microscopes
Light Microscopes that Increase Contrast
Light Microscopes that Detect Fluorescence
Electron Microscopes
Magnification, Resolution, & Contrast