Microbiology and biochemistryLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Microbiology and biochemistry knowledge gives the basic tools needed to understand microorganism living, behavior and use in different environments.Biological functions and biochemical reactions, pollutants transport and degradation processes are important as well in combustion processe as in nutrients use in arable lands.Bacteria and fungi in indoor air and toxin production causing health effects on human and impacts on building materials. Microbes fate in aquatic environments, use in waste water purification, biotechnology and other industrial application Working in the laboratory, taking and analysing different kind of samples, microbe classification and identification.and reconizing biochemistrical reactions in practice will strengthen your understanding of microbiology and biochemistry

Content

What are the environmental effects of microorganisms living, survive and their interaction in different processes? What are the biochemical reactions between microbes and environments in pollutant's degradation processes? What is the role of organic material and biofilms to microbes behavior in different surfacesand environment? How to take samples, recognize, analyse and identify difeerent microbes in variable environments? What is the effect of disinfectants in different microbe species?

Assessment criteria, good (3)

a.use professional terminology, vocabulary and microbiology analytical methods systematically. b.look for information in the key information sources both microbiological and biochemistrical theory and analyse methods field. c.identify interrelated tasks. e.use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field