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• Bacterial physiology
• The phylogeny of bacteria
• Phototrophic, chemolithotrophic and methanotrophic proteobacteria
• Aerobic and facultatively aerobic chemoorganotrophic proteobacteria
• Morphologically unusual proteobacteria
• Delta and epsilon proteobacteria
• Firmicutes, mollicutes and action bacteria
• Cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes
• Chlamydia
• Planctomycetes
• Verrucomicrobia, Flavobacteria and Acidobacteria
• Cytophaga group
• Green Sulfur bacteria, Spirochetes, Dienococci
• The green non sulfur bacteria, Hyperthermophillic bacteria, Nitrospira and Deferribacter,
• Practical: Culturing of microorganisms: preparation and sterilization of culture media, broth culture, agar slope, agar slab, streak plates, pour plates.
• Practical: Isolation and stock culturing of bacteria. Quantitative plating method