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Microbial Metabolism
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Microbial Metabolism Lecture Materials
These
are the Microbial Metabolism Lecture materials of the Virtual Microbiology Classroom. The resources below are used to supplement an actual
college microbiology course. Anyone taking, teaching or interested in
biology may find these materials helpful and is welcome to use them.
The Microbial Metabolism Lecture materials include:
- a list of learning objectives
- a PowerPoint lecture
- a homework assignment
- "class note" articles
- practice test questions
- review questions
- relevant microbiology images
- links to additional educational resources
MICROBIAL METABOLISM LECTURE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
These lecture learning objectives are a study guide based on the VMC Microbial Metabolism Lecture PowerPoint:
- Understand difference between catabolism / anabolism and what these reactions have to do with metabolism.
- Understand what a redox reaction is and what this type of reaction has to do with metabolism.
- Understand what ATP is and its significance in metabolism.
- Understand the steps of aerobic cellular respiration to the detail that we discussed in class (starting molecule, end product molecule, what is produced in each pathway or subpathway. You do not need to know the name of every molecule at every substage of these processes).
- Understand how aerobic respiration, anaerobic respiration and fermentation differ.
- Understand how metabolism relates to the differential aspect of MacConkey's and Mannitol Salt specialized media.
MICROBIAL METABOLISM LECTURE POWERPOINT
All of the lecture PowerPoints used in the Virtual Microbiology Classroom have fill-in-the-blanks on many of the slides to encourage students to pay attention and follow along during the presentation. Instructors, contact us for the information that goes in the blanks.
HELPFUL TIPS: Some of the PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a few moments to download, depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you are printing a hard copy of the PowerPoint, you can save paper by selecting Handouts (rather than Slides) in the "Print What:" drop down menu of the PPT print screen. Then you can choose the number of slides you want to have on each printed page. If the printed PPT presentation is to be used as student notes, it is best to choose handouts with 2 or 3 slides per page.
MICROBIAL METABOLISM HOMEWORK
Word document of a single essay question given to students at the end of lecture. This tool helps the students review the main messages of the lecture while allowing the instructor to assess the class' understanding of the material.
MICROBIAL METABOLISM CLASS NOTES
Here are brief summaries of some of the various subtopics and concepts introduced in this lecture, kind of like really good class notes.
- Why Do We Breathe? Aerobic Cellular Respiration
- Cellular Metabolism: What Is Fermentation?
- Differential & Selective Bacterial Growth Media: MacConkey's, Mannitol Salt & Blood Agar
MICROBIAL METABOLISM PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS
Practice test questions designed to help you better understand the material from this lecture. They are based on information in the Microbial Metabolism PowerPoint Lecture.
MICROBIAL METABOLISM REVIEW QUESTIONS
Questions designed to help you review the material in the Microbial Metabolism Lecture.
MICROBIAL METABOLISM IMAGES
The images linked here directly relate to this lecture material and are designed to help student review and study while outside of class.
MORE MICROBIAL METABOLISM LINKS
- Cellular Respiration animation by Jay Phelan, “What is Life? A Guide to Biology”, W. H. Freeman & Co.
- How NAD+ Works animation and quiz from McGraw-Hill.
- Glycolysis animation and quiz from McGraw-Hill.
- Krebs Cycle Animation & Quiz 1 from McGraw-Hill.
- Krebs Cycle Animation & Quiz 2 from McGraw-Hill.
- Electron Transport Chain animation from Molecular & Cellular Biology Learning Cntr.
- Electron Transport Chain click through animation by Graham Kent Bio231 Cell Bio.
- Electron Transport System & Formation of ATP (Quiz 1) by McGraw-Hill
- Electron Transport System & ATP Synthesis (Quiz 2) by McGraw-Hill
- Anaerobic Respiration Page by Timothy Paustain, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
- Alcohol and Lactate Fermentation by Central Michigan University.
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