PEBO 215 General Microbiology I

This course will enable students to understand (the meaning of) microbiology as a science, developmental stages of microbiology as a scientific discipline, and will provide historical perspective on the spontaneous generation theory, the germ theory, development of antibiotics and immunization. Students will be taken through the scope and relevance of microbiology. in life. They will be taken through the fundamental of classification and types of microorganisms – Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes and Archaebacteria; major groups of microorganisms – bacteria, fungi, viruses, algae, nematodes, viroids, mollicutes, and protozoa. Their morphology, structure, taxonomy, nutrition and metabolism, genetics, immunology and reproduction as well as microbial growth.