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Bacteria in Biology, Biotechnology, and Medicine, 6th ed.


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2004-014697

0-470-09027-8

Bacteria in biology, biotechnology, and medicine, 6th ed.

Singleton, Paul.

John Wiley & Sons, [c]2004

559 p.

$75.00 (pa)

Written in a simple, reader-friendly style, this text on pure and applied bacteriology bacteriology

Study of bacteria. Modern understanding of bacterial forms dates from Ferdinand Cohn's classifications. Other researchers, such as Louis Pasteur, established the connection between bacteria and fermentation and disease.
 gives readers access to new ideas and developments in the field, and can be used as a text for undergraduates and post-graduates in biology, biotechnology, medicine, pharmacology, microbiology, food science, and environmental sciences. No prior knowledge of bacteria is assumed. This updated sixth edition contains many new references, and features information on FRET, in vitro in vitro /in vi·tro/ (in ve´tro) [L.] within a glass; observable in a test tube; in an artificial environment.

in vi·tro
adj.
In an artificial environment outside a living organism.
 Tn5 transposition transposition /trans·po·si·tion/ (trans?po-zish´un)
1. displacement of a viscus to the opposite side.

2.
, Pyrosequencing, and phage display phage display
n.
A technique using recombinant DNA technology to create bacteriophages with a desired peptide embedded in the surface of their protein shells.
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