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| History and Scope of Microbiology | |
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| Early History | |
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| The Golden Age of Microbiology | |
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| Later Discoveries and the Beginnings of Virology | |
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| Scope of Microbiology | |
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| Equipment and Techniques | |
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| Units of Measurement | |
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| Microscopes | |
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| Preparation of Specimens for Light Microscopy | |
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| Staining | |
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| Culturing Microorganisms | |
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| Quiz: Equipment and Techniques | |
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| Survey of Microorganisms | |
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| Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes | |
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| Bacteria | |
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| The Eukaryotic Cell | |
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| Viruses | |
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| Quiz: Survey of Microorganisms | |
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| Microbial Metabolism | |
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| General Terms | |
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| Enzymes | |
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| Oxidation and Reduction | |
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| Phosphorylation | |
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| Carbohydrate Catabolism | |
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| Lipid and Protein Catabolism | |
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| Photosynthesis | |
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| Other Anabolic Pathways | |
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| Nutritional Modes | |
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| Transport of Molecules | |
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| Transport | |
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| Simple Diffusion | |
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| Osmosis | |
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| Facilitated Diffusion | |
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| Active Transport | |
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| Group Translocation | |
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| Endocytosis and Exocytosis | |
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| Quiz: Microbial Metabolism and Transport of Molecules | |
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| Bacterial Growth | |
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| Growth of Bacterial Populations | |
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| Ways to Measure Growth of Bacterial Populations | |
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| Physical and Chemical Requirements for Growth | |
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| Quiz: Bacterial Growth | |
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| Control of Microbial Growth-Disinfection and Antisepsis | |
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| General Terms | |
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| Factors Influencing Disinfectant Activity | |
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| Physical Methods | |
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| Chemical Disinfection and Sterilization | |
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| Evaluating a Disinfectant | |
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| Microbial Death | |
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| Control of Microbial Growth-Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | |
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| General Terms | |
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| Types of Agents | |
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| Mechanisms of Action of Antimicrobial Drugs | |
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| Evaluating an Antimicrobial Drug | |
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| Side Effects | |
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| Drug Resistance | |
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| Some Common Antibacterial Drugs | |
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| Quiz: Control of Microbial Growth | |
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| Microbial Genetics | |
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| Genetics | |
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| Chromosomes. | |
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| Replication | |
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| Transcription-Synthesis of RNA | |
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| Translation | |
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| Mutation | |
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| Gene Transfer | |
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| Recombination | |
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| Transposons | |
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| Recombinant DNA Technology | |
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| Diversity and Evolution | |
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| Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria | |
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| Quiz: Microbial Genetics | |
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| Role of Microbes In Disease | |
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| Host-Microbe Relationships | |
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| Kinds of Disease | |
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| How Microbes Cause Disease | |
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| The Disease Process | |
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| Koch's Postulates | |
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| Epidemiology | |
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| Host Defense Mechanisms | |
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| Microbial Diseases of the Skin and Eyes | |
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| Microbial Diseases of the Respiratory System | |
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| Microbial Diseases of the Digestive System | |
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| Microbial Diseases of the Cardiovascular System | |
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| Microbial Diseases of the Nervous System | |
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| Microbial Diseases of the Genitourinary System | |
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| Quiz: Role of Microbes in Disease | |
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| Microbes in the Environment | |
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| Microbes and the Recycling of Nutrients | |
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| Bioremediation | |
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| Microbes in Industry | |
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| Microbes in the Food Industry | |
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| Industrial Microbiology | |
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| Microbes and Medicine | |
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| Microbes and Recombinant DNA Technology | |
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| Quiz: Microbes in the Environment and Industry | |