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MICR 221 Fundamental Microbiology Units: 3.00
A fundamental study of the structure, genetics, and growth of microorganisms, focusing on bacteria and viruses. The roles of microbes in the environments in which they exist will be considered.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 18 Laboratory, 66 Private Study)
Requirements: PREREQUISITE (A GPA of 1.90 (obtained in any term) or a `Pass¿ (obtained in Winter 2020) in BIOL 102/3.0 and BIOL 103/3.0) and CHEM 112/6.0.
EXCLUSIONS MICR 271/3.0
Course Equivalencies: MICR221, MICR229
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences
Course Learning Outcomes:
- understand the main ways bacteria exchange DNA
- understand the major structures of bacterial cells, their functions and assembly;
- recognize roles microbes play in the environment as well as in disease
- appreciate the diversity of microbes
- identify the growth phases of bacteria and how growth can be measured
- understand the many ways microbes acquire nutrients from their environment
- understand how bacteria communicate
- understand the many ways bacteria regulate expression of their genes;
- integrate lecture material with the lab component
- identify major virus families and understand their structure, replication strategies and diversity
- understand how viruses disseminate within the infected host organism and how they cause disease
- understand how the host organism responds to virus infection and develops immunity to future infection by the same virus
- understand the mechanisms by which some viruses evade host immune defenses
- understand the challenges faced in the global delivery of vaccines to eradicate select viral pathogens.