2002 - Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology (5th Ed.) - J. Harley & L. Prescott.pdf

Harley−Prescott: Front Matter Preface © The McGraw−Hill
Laboratory Exercises panies, 2002
Microbiology, Fifth Edition
PREFACE
Take interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings which one designates
by the expressive term: laboratories. Demand that they be multiplied, that
they be adorned. These are the temples of the future—temples of well-being
and of happiness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better.
Louis Pasteur
(French chemist, founder of microbiology, 1822–1895)
There are many excellent microbiology laboratory in a manner that plement the textbook and
manuals on the market and many others that are make the study of microbiology both exciting and
called “in-house” productions because they are writ- challenging. According to an old Chinese proverb:
ten for a microbiology course at a particular school.
Tell me and I will forget.
Why another microbiology manual? The answer is
Show me and I might remember.
straightforward. Many instructors want a manual
Involve me and I will understand.
that is directly correlated with a specific textbook.
As a result, this laboratory manual was designed These words convey our basic philosophy that it is ex-
and written to be used in conjunction with the text- periences in the microbiology laboratory and the sci-
book Microbiology, fifth edition, by Lansing M. entific method that help develop students’ critical
Prescott, John P. Harley, and Donald A. Klein; how- thinking and creativity and that increase their appreci-
ever, it can be used with other textbooks with slight ation of the mechanisms by which microbiologists an-
adaptation. alyze information. The laboratory plishes this
Since this manual correlates many of the micro- by having students e intensely and personally
biological concepts in the textbook with the various involved in the knowledge they acquire.
exercises, comprehensive introductory material is The array of exercises was chosen to illustrate the
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