Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Louisiana State University/Prokaryotic Diversity (Spring 2014)/Course description

Course Description

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From the Louisiana State University catalog: “Biology of bacteria and archaea; evolution, diversity assessment, systematics, ecology; emphasis on molecular approaches.”

This course is meant to expand the basic knowledge of microbes established in General Microbiology to help students appreciate the myriad forms, capabilities, and lifestyles of organisms in the Domains Bacteria and Archaea. This course will explore their evolutionary relationships on the tree of life, their lifestyle, metabolic, and genomic variations, and introduce methods for measuring microbial diversity.