Importance of Microorganisms

Duration: 11

Year Published: 1960

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Explains why microorganisms are essential for the survival of all living things. Discusses man's use of microorganisms and considers what microorganisms have done for man in the fields of immunology, chemotherapy, and antibiotics. Presents the role of microorganisms in nature and the desirable and undesirable effects upon man. Mentions diseases caused by microorganisms, and today's control through immunology. Pictures through microcinephotography their contributions to chemotherapy and states that today's "drosophila" in genetics, at the molecular level, are the microoganisms. Summarizes three important aspects of microorganisms to man: mineralization, production of a valuable end product, and providing a tool in understanding life itself. Guest lecturer, Dr. Walter A. Konetzka, Indiana University.

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