BIOMI 6903 - Prokaryotic Biology: Bacterial Physiology and Diversity

Fall. 1 credit. Student option grading.

Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

S.H. Zinder.

Reviews the major energy-conserving modes of metabolism and their phylogenetic distributions among both bacteria and archaea. Topics include: phylogenetic analysis, fermentation, respiration, photosynthesis, pathways of carbon and nitrogen fixation, and evolution of the three domains of life.