Microbiology Notes

Notes on Bacteria and Viruses
Slideshow on disease

check out : Prince of Wales:  Microbial Wine and Cheese  

Many foods are made by the action of microbes from kingdom Monera, or Fungi.  In a group of two or three, prepare a plate artistically displaying an sample of a food that is made by a microbe.  For example, sourdough bread is made by the action of lactobacillus and Propionibacterium freudenreichii produces emmental cheese.  In the history of food, it seems, there was always someone who decided to try something that looked like it had gone bad and said,  "hey, a little off, but…not bad!"  And thus the birth of beer, bread, cheese, natto! 

Due in the library, dec 16...  during the morning.  Please bring a tea mug for the fermented Camellia sinensis. This is what we will be drinking.  De-alc beer and wine provided by Mr. Haji.  semi-formal event.  if you have a musical instrument, please bring it!  make only enough for your own group to eat and include a bite for the vp or principal who plans to drop in for a taste.

Volunteer opportunity Pacific Spirit Park

Here is a great opportunity for volunteering and blogging: If you enjoy being in the forest, and you would like to be a youth leader, check out this opportunity:

Hi there Susan,

This is Lauren, co-head of the youth committee of PSPS. I hope you are doing well!

Maddy and I have been planning a new project for this upcoming year that maintains the same focus as Forum in the Forest (which you might remember as the Earth Week event from last April) but on a monthly basis. We are looking for interested and committed youth volunteers to lead our monthly "Trail Treks".

Rhizobium Bacteria live in the root nodules of legumes

today we looked at the root nodules in a legume plant.  These plants have a symbiotic relationship with a nitrogen fixing bacteria called rhizobium.  Not all plants have these nodules. Legumes are plants that make pods like soybean, clover, alfalfa, kidney beans, peas.

We tested several plants for the presence of nodules and to discover which ones are, in fact, legumes.  We also observed some insects found on some of the specimens.

Virus Model Due November 2

Make a model of a virus or bacterium of your choice.  Make it out of any material.  It must fit within a shoebox.

the model:  10
it is complete and presented well: 4
the write up is on the outside of the shoebox:  6 marks:

bonus marks for the best three assignments.

   on the sides of the shoebox:
side 1:  name of the virus or bacterium and a description
side 2:  disease that it causes in humans
side 3:  what is your name, draw a picture of yourself and describe a disease you had in the past (not the same disease that is in the box.
side 4:  a picture of the virus.

sign up for this lecture

Hello bi 11s,

there is an opportunity to learn about biodiversity and landscape architecture from one of Canada's best landscape architects, Cornelia Oberlander.  Remember that attendance to conferences and lectures and reporting your learning could help go towards your term mark.  The information is here:

Biodiversity and Landscape Architecture in the 21st Century

At the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

test on monday!

test is on all notes including classification
evolution, natural selection (see all previous notes in previous posts below)

including this one:
How evolutionary change occurs

also powerpoints on
punctuated equilibrium
natural selection

test will be some multiple choice and some long answer.  emphasis on the notes.
if you want to study from the text:  it is chapters 13, 14, 15.  last period, I gave you a challenge to put something in evolutionary order.  this question will also be on this test.

good luck everyone!

Evolution Animation and your Class Notes

Evolution is the idea that all life is related in some way.  We can count primates and fish as distant cousins. And earthworms, mollusks as even more distant relatives.  Going back even farther, we can even have a family reunion with a flatworm.  The story of life as an animation is here.  Your bi 11 evolution notes here.