This topic explains the diversity of the microbial world. Students will understand the basic cellular structures of the different types of microbes and see the structural variations.
Objectives:
- List the general characteristics of fungi and protozoans, and how they result in infections.
- Discuss infections caused by these organisms.
- Describe the general structure of viruses.
- Describe bacteriophages and their replication cycles.
- Describe the different categories of diseases caused by animal and human viruses.
- Describe the role of certain viruses in human tumors.