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Chapter 9: Bacteria

Stanford University Medical School
Read about cutting-edge research on bacterial pathogens. Then view movies showing how these pathogens invade their hosts.

Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy
Choose your state or a state near you to see how a waste-treatment problem has been addressed. What was the problem? Was bioremediation used in the clean-up? If not, describe the clean-up method used.

Unit 2: Classifying Life

CELLS alive!
Use time-lapse technology to plot growth and cell division of bacteria.

Michigan State University
Vist Dirtland or Water World at the Microbe Zoo. How many microbes are found in an average gram of soil?

Busch Gardens
Create your own animal. Then, based on its characteristics, classify it in the Linnaean Classification System.

The Museum of Paleontolgy, University of California, Berkeley
Learn about the many different forms of life found on Earth. What do all living things have in common?