Questions of Lab No 1

Dear Students, here are your lab questions:

1. Why we prefer agar agar over other solidifying agents?
2. You isolated a bacterial strain from environment. It grows well on a prepared medium of brand A but not on the same medium of brand B. What could be the reasons and how can you solve this problem?

You can write down answers in your lab workbook or as comments on this post here.

Details of Lecture 1

In lecture 1, course was introduced. It was discussed that why microbiology is important, why we need to study it? which organisms are included in it, what are some advances in this field. Course policies were also discussed in detail.
Microorganisms are present everywhere; on our skin, inside our body, on the surfaces around us, in the soil, water bodies, on the plants. We have to interact and deal with these. Some of these are useful, some are harmful and others are harmless. These are extremely useful for us in both biology and biotechnology research. We use these to study basic genetic principles, genetic expression, metabolic processes. We also use these to make products like yogurt, cheese, antibiotics, hormones and other useful products. These are used in research in academia and industry.
In this course we are going to look at their properties, their interactions with the environment and their applications in various field.

Remember! The handouts are not an alternative to your class notes.

Activate you accounts @fccollege.edu.pk

All students must activate their fccollege.edu.pk email accounts immediately. You can do this by seeing Mr. Ghaus Mohammad in room 205. These will be required for forgotten password issues related to your Student Web Account and is your authentic email to contact administration or faculty at Forman. 
When faculty/administration send an email at your address you are supposed to be able to access it.Therefore activate now. This will serve as an alternate to SMS!

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Welcome the Class of Fall 2012 and course outline

Dear Students

Welcome to the course. Microbiology is about microorganisms. This is an exciting field because microorganisms - these are present everywhere and are useful, harmless or harmful. We have to deal with them. And also these are most important tools of current biotechnology research. This is abasic course about microorganisms.

Click here to download course outline.

Good luck.