Why Microbes Matter is an introduction to the world of microbiology and provides the information you need to learn about microbiology at a fair price. This page lists all the chapters of the book with links to each section. If a chapter you want to read is not accessible, you probably need to buy a subscription. If you have already purchased a subscription, you may be logged out. Log back in.
Chapter 1 – Introdution
Chapter 2 – Staying in the Real World
- 2 – 1 Misinformation matters
- 2 – 2 The Age of Misinformation
- 2 – 3 Who Can You Trust
- 2 – 4 The Four Levels of Information
- 2 – 5 A Recipe for Truth and Understanding
- 2 – 6 A Recipe for Truth and Understanding Part 2
- 2 – 7 Things to look for
- 2 – 8 Some examples of ideas and the evidence for and against them
- 2 – 9 Instructions for buying Why Microbes Matter
Chapter 3 – The Lego Blocks of Life
Chapter 5 – The Central Dogma – the Universal Tools of All Life
Chapter 6 – Enzymes and Fermentation
Chapter 7 – Manipulating the Molecules of Life : Molecular Biology
- 7 – 1 Is genetic manipulation of living things by humans a new thing?
- 7 – 2 Bacterial immune systems provide the tools to change genetics
- 7 – 3 DNA Sequencing
- 7 – 4 The second bacterial immune system – CRISPR
- 7 – 5 The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- 7 – 6 How genetic engineering impacts your life
- 7 – 7 The development of CRISPR shows the promise and danger of genetic technologies
Chapter 8 – The Flow of Carbon and Why You Should Care
Chapter 11 – Fighting the Microbial Hoards : Your Immune System
Chapter 12 – Fighting the Microbial Hoards: Controlling their growth
Chapter 13 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fights the Flu
Chapter 14 – COVID-19
- 14 – 1 SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
- 14 – 2 Origins, spread, and risk of COVID-19
- 14 – 3 Various responses to COVID-19
- 14 – 4 Stopping COVID-19
- 14 – 5 Treatments for SARS-CoV-2
- 14 – 6 Vaccine development. How does it work?
- 14 – 7 Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19
- 14 – 8 A call to action: what you can do to fight infectious disease