Chrysophytes, 172
Cilia, 78–79, 177
Ciliates, 177
Class, 144–145
Classification of microorganisms
natural classification, 146–147
nomenclature, 140–144
ranking, 144–146
taxonomy, 139–140
Clostridium,104, 162–163, 200
Coding strand, 123
Codons, 123
Coenzymes, 90
Cofactor, 90
Cohen, Stanley, 132
Cohn, Ferdinand, 12, 18
Competitive inhibitor, 92
Complement-fixation reaction, 227
Complementary base pairing, 122
Compounds, 30
Conjugation, 175
Contact transmission, 201
Contagious disease, 12
Coordinate covalent bond, 31
Corynebacteria, 164
Covalent bond, 31
Creutzfeldt, Hans Gerhard, 193
Crick, Francis, 120
Culture media, 105–109
anaerobic growth, 106
chemically defined media, 106
generation time, 109
growing bacterial cultures, 108–109
preserving bacterial cultures, 108
pure cultures, 107
selective and differential media, 107
Curie, Marie and Pierre, 27, 43
Cytokines, 218–219
Cytoplasm, 81
Cytosine (C), 122
Cytosol, 77
Cytosome, 176D
Dalton (unit), 25
Dalton, John, 24–25, 43
Dark phase reactions, 89, 98, 100
Dark-field microscope, 58
Deamination, 98
Decay, rate of, 27
Decomposition reaction, 34
Degerming, 112
Dehydration synthesis, 39
Denaturing, 114
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). SeeDNA
(deoxyribonucleic acid)
Diagnosing diseases, reactions used, 226–228
Diatoms, 172
Diatonic molecules, 30
Diener, O.T., 192
Differential interface contrast microscope
(Nomanski), 59
Differentiation, 67–68
Diiodohydroxyquin, 245
Dinoflagellates, 172–173
Dioecious helminths, 179
Disaccharides, 40–41
Disease and epidemiology. SeeEpidemiology
and disease
Disinfection, 112
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), 42–44
fingerprinting, 134–135
recombinant. SeeRecombinant DNA
technology
replication, 120–121
viruses, 188–190
Domains, 6–7, 142–145
Droplet transmission, 201E
E. coli (Escherichia coli),6, 61, 96, 104, 125,
146, 156–157
EBV (Epstein-Barr virus), 192
Ehrlich, Paul, 16, 18, 232
Eicosanoids, 41(^274) INDEX
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