Get Ready For Microbiology

Get Ready for Microbiology helps students quickly prepare for their microbiology course and provides useful materials for future reference. The workbook gets students up to speed with chapters on study skills, math skills, microbiology terminology, basic chemistry, basic biology, and basic cell biology before a final chapter that introduces students to microbiology. Each chapter includes a pre-test (Your Starting Point), guided explanations, interactive practice exercises with answers explained (Time to Try; Picture This; Reality Check), quizzes with answers given (Quick Check), motivations for learning (Why Should I Care?), and end-of-chapter cumulative tests with answers given at the back of the book (What Did You Learn?).

Key Benefit: Get Ready for Microbiology helps readers quickly prepare for their microbiology course and provides useful materials for future reference. The workbook gets readers up to speed with chapters on study skills, math skills, microbiology terminology, basic chemistry, basic biology, and basic cell biology before a final chapter that introduces students to microbiology. Each chapter includes a pre-test (Your Starting Point), guided explanations, interactive practice exercises with answers explained (Time to Try; Picture This; Reality Check), quizzes with answers given (Quick Check), motivations for learning (Why Should I Care?), and end-of-chapter cumulative tests with answers given at the back of the book (What did you Learn?). This Media Update features a Companion Website with pre- and post-tests with instant feedback, personalized study plans, animations, activities, tutorials, and myeBook with live links. Key Topics: Study Skills: Feeding Your Brain, Basic Math Review: Crunching the Numbers, Terminology: The ABC's of Microbiology, Chemistry: The Science of Stuff, Biology Basics: How Life Works, Cell Biology: Life's Little Factories, Microbiology Basics: Tiny Organisms of Huge Importance Market Description: Intended for readers interested in getting a head-start on learning microbiology

This book presents different perspectives of support of the doctoral education value chain. Themes such as the scope of doctoral education, planning and roll-out of the research project, student and supervisor responsibilities, publication writing, grant applications, the application of research results and research ethics and integrity are addressed. This book forms part of one of the three pillars of postgraduate research, namely research capacity building. The other two pillars are policy and methodology, which are addressed in other publications.

With consumer awareness increasing, the importance of the environmental impact of everyday products such as food becomes a major factor for the customer. This awareness was increased with the COVID-19 pandemic. This book introduces green and sustainable food technology and its use during a pandemic. In addition, it covers current topics such as future food processing, methods of maintaining industrial hygiene and microbiological quality and safety

This #1 selling non-majors microbiology book is praised for its straightforward presentation of complex topics, careful balance of concepts and applications, and proven art that teaches. In its Tenth Edition, Tortora/Funke/Case responds to the #1 challenge of the microbiology course: teaching a wide range of reader levels, while still addressing reader under-preparedness. The Tenth Edition meets readers at their respective skill levels. First, the book signals core microbiology content to readers with the new and highly visual Foundation Figures that readers need to understand before moving forward in a chapter. Second, the book gives readers frequent opportunities for self-assessment with the new Check Your Understanding questions that correspond by number to the chapter Learning Objectives. Then, a new "visual learning" orientation includes: an increased number of the popular Diseases in Focus boxes, newly illustrated end-of-chapter Study Outlines that provide students with visual cues to remind them of chapter content, and new end-of-chapter Draw It questions. The all-new art program is contemporary without compromising Tortora/Funke/Case's hallmark reputation for precision and clarity. Content revisions include substantially revised immunity chapters and an increased emphasis on antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, and biofilms. The new Get Ready for Microbiology workbook and online practice and assessment materials help readers prepare for the course. The Microbial World and You, Chemical Principles, Observing Microorganisms Through a Microscope, Functional Anatomy of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells, Microbial Metabolism, Microbial Growth, The Control of Microbial Growth, Microbial Genetics, Biotechnology and Recombinant DNA, Classification of Microorganisms, The Prokaryotes: Domains Bacteria and Archaea, The Eukaryotes: Fungi, Algae, Protozoa, and Helminths, Viruses, Viroids, and Prions, Principles of Disease and Epidemiology, Microbial Mechanisms of Pathogenicity, Innate Immunity: Nonspecific Defenses of the Host, Adaptive Immunity: Specific Defenses of the Host, Practical Applications of Immunology, Disorders Associated with the Immune System, Antimicrobial Drugs, Microbial Diseases of the Skin and Eyes, Microbial Diseases of the Nervous System, Microbial Diseases of the Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems, Microbial Diseases of the Respiratory System, Microbial Diseases of the Digestive System, Microbial Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Systems, Environmental Microbiology, Applied and Industrial Microbiology . Intended for those interested in learning the basics of microbiology.

"Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health. The pedagogical features of the text make the material interesting and accessible while maintaining the career-application focus and scientific rigor inherent in the subject matter. Microbiology's art program enhances students' understanding of concepts through clear and effective illustrations, diagrams, and photographs. Microbiology is produced through a collaborative publishing agreement between OpenStax and the American Society for Microbiology Press. The book aligns with the curriculum guidelines of the American Society for Microbiology."--BC Campus website.