Talk:Microbiology
From Academic Kids
There is a document entitled 'Chapter 1 - Microbiology' at http://www2.ihs.gov/opheng/EH_Handbook/CH-1.doc in Microsoft .doc format that appears to be (at least in part) a work of the U.S. Indian Health Service.
See http://www.opheng.ihs.gov/ehh_index.cfm for more details -- it appears to be a draft.
However, its copyright status is unclear. If it is a work of the U.S. Federal Government or one of its agencies, then it is in the public domain, and we should be able to use it. -- Anon.
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1 A Bulgarian innovation:human blood has normal microbial flora. |
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I propose that this page be consolidated with Microorganism. Any opinions? -adam
- I don't think that is such a good idea. There is much to be written about the field of microbiology (esp. in terms of history) that isn't at all appropriate for an article about microbes. --mav
- So make this a page about Microbiology as a social undertaking, while microbe deals with the subject matter of Microbiology? Sounds good.
A Bulgarian innovation:human blood has normal microbial flora.
Dear Sir, November 10, 2003
Everybody can see on color photographs the microorganisms living in the blood of Bulgarian professors of medicine as normal microbial flora[www.585826.iam911.com ],but Bulgaria is one of the poorest country of Europe and this is the reason to ask you what must I do in order to get some information about the taxonomy of this unknown till present microorganisms.? I'm ready to any form of cooperation with anybody who use some kind of DNA investigations.
Sincerely E. Kalfin M. D., Ph. D. e-mail:dr_emil_kalfin@yahoo.com
Anon "contribution"
This text was added by User:24.131.1.139 but in doing so deleted all the external links. I have moved the text here and reverted. Onco p53 04:25, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
There are three classes of microbes, which include prions and viruses, the prokaryotic forms and the eukaryotic forms. Prions and viruses are acellular, meaning that they do not posess the tradition cell structure. They are in fact, not true organisms. Prions are little string of proteins, while a virus is a protein coated string of RNA or DNA. The prokaryotic forms of microbes, which are also the biggest and most important group in microbiology, are bacteria. They are mostly unicellular. Finally, the eukaryotic forms of microbes include algae, fungi and protozoans. They are the most complex of the three classes.
Considering large addition
I'd like to contribute significantly to this page to raise the quality on what I feel is a very important subject. I'm going to be working on a more detailed history paragraph as well as a better overall description of the field. I may add a picture as well, maybe a microscope or something along those lines. I see the difficulty being to get a good article here that doesn't cross-over with all the other sub-fields of biology. I see microbiology as second only to the larger discipline of biology as the mother of Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Cell biology, etc. Any comments? J Shultz 17:20, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
