The document is a PowerPoint presentation on microbiology. It covers several key topics:
- Microbes affect our lives in both beneficial and harmful ways, such as decomposing waste, producing foods and chemicals, and causing disease.
- Scientific naming of microbes uses binomial nomenclature with the genus and specific epithet. Major groups of microbes include bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, algae, and viruses.
- Landmark discoveries in microbiology included Hooke and van Leeuwenhoek's early observations of cells and microorganisms under microscopes. Pasteur and Koch helped establish the germ theory of disease and methods to prove microbe-disease connections. Jen