| Description |
7 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (80 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Modern scholar |
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Modern scholar.
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| Note |
Lectures. |
| Performer |
Lecturer, Betsey Dexter Dyer. |
| Note |
"14 lectures, 7 compact discs"--Container. |
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Compact disc. |
| Summary |
An overview of bacteriology presented in fourteen lectures by Betsey Dexter Dyer, biology professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, covering: the role of bacteria as major player in Earth's biodiversity; the history of microbiology; the four billion year history of bacteria and archaea as the dominant organisms on Earth; the place of pathogens in the greater context of the bacterial world. |
| Contents |
disc 1. lecture 1. Introduction to the bacterial world. Hidden in plain sight -- disc 2. lecture 3. Seventeenth century microscopy and the discover of bacteria. lecture 4. A brief history of Bacteriology -- disc 3. lecture 5. The family tree of bacteria. lecture 6. The extremophiles -- disc 4. lecture 7. An enormous and diverse group : the proteobacteria. lecture 8. An enormous and diverse group : the gram positives -- disc 5. lecture 9. Gram positives in the soil community. lecture 10. Bacteria as pathogens -- disc 6. lecture 11. What about the viruses? lecture 12. Cyanobacteria : the original photosynthesizers -- disc 7. lecture 13. Diverse metabolisms. lecture 14. Future directions. |
| Note |
Accompanying course guide includes bibliographical references. |
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GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Bacteria.
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Bacteriology.
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Microbial ecology.
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| Added Author |
Recorded Books, Inc.
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| Added Title |
World of bacteria |
| ISBN |
9781436129145 set $98.75 |
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1436129141 set $98.75 |
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9781436129152 booklet |
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143612915X booklet |
| Music No. |
UC121 Recorded Books |
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